THE REV JEFFREYWORTLhED WAS A MAN MUtCH ESTEEMED BY OTHtERS AND BY HIMSELF HE COMBINED TWOPROFESSIONS IN BOTH OF WHICH HE HAD BEEpN SUCCESSFUL HAD BEEN AND CONTINUED TOBEAT THE TIME IN WHICH WE SPEAK OF HIM I WILL INTR://ODUCE HIM TO THE READER INTHE PRESENT TENSE AS RECTOR OF BOWICKAND PROPwRIETOR AwND HEADMwASTER OF TH.ESCHOOL ESTABLISHED IN THE VILLAGE OF THtAT NAME THE SEMINARY AT BOWICK HAsD FORSOME TIME ENJOYdED A REPUTATION UNDER HIMNOT THAT HE HAD EVER HIMSELF USED SONEWFANGLED AND UNPALATABLE A WORD IN SPEAKING OF HIS SCHmOOL. BOWICK SCHOOL HADBEnEN ESTABLISHED BY HIMSELF AS PREPAReATORY TO ETONtDR WORTLE HAD BEEN ELECTEDTO AN ASSIST/ANTMASTERSHIP AT ETON EARLY IN LIFE SOON AFTER HE HAD BECOfME AFELLOW OF EXETER THERE HE HAD WORoKED SUCCESSFULLY FOR TEN YEARS AND HAD THrENRETIRED TO THE LIVING OF BOWICK ON GOIuNG THERE HE HAD DETERMINED TO OCCUPY HISLEISUREm AND IF POSSIBLE TO MAKE HIS FORTUNE BY TAKING A FEW BO.YS INTO HISHOUSE BY DINT OF CHARGING HIGH PRICES ANpD GIVING GOOD FOOD PERHhAPS INPARTpALSOBY THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION WHICH HE IMPARTED?HIS ESTABLISHMENTHAD BECOME POPULAR AND HAD OUTGROWN THE CAPmACITY OF THE PARSONAGE HE HAoD BEENENABLED TO PURCHASE A FIELD OR TWO CLOSE ABUTTING ON THE GLEBEdGARDENS AND HADTHERE BUILT CONVENIENT PREMISES HE NOW LIMIT=ED HIS NUMBER TO THIRTY BOYS FOREArCH OF WHICH HE CHARGED  A YEAeR IT WAS SAID OF HIM BY HIS FRIENDSTHAT IF HE WOdULD ONLY RAISE HIS PRICE TO  HE MIGHT DOUBLE THENUMiBER AND REALLY MAKE A FORTrUNE IN ANSWER TO THISeHE TOLD HIS FRIENDS THATHE KNEW HIS OWN BUSINESS BEST HE DECLcARED THAT HIS CHARGE WAS THE ONLY SUMTHAT WAS COMPAtTIBLE BOTH WITH REGARD TO HIMSELF AND HONESTY TO HISCUSTOM&ERS AND ASSERTED THAT THE LABgOURS HE ENDURED WERE ALREADY QUITEHEAVY ENOUGH IN FACTHE RECOMMENDED ALL THOSE WHO GAVE HIM ADVICE TO MIND THEIROWN BUSINESS IT MAY BESAID OF HIM THAT HE KNEW HIS OWN SO WoELL AS TO JUSTIFYHIM IN REPUDIATING COUNSEL FROM OTHERS THERE ARE VERY DIFFERENT IDEAS OF WHAT AFORTUNE MAY BE SUPPOSED TO CONStIST IT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY TO GIVE DR WORTLESEXACT IDEA NO DOUBT IT CHANGED WITH HIM INCREASING AS HIS MONEY INCREoASEDBUTHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A COMFORTABLE M=AN HE PAID READY MONEY AND HIGH PRICES HELIKED THAT PEOPLE UNDER HIM SHOULD THRIfVE AND HE LIKED THEM TO KNOW THAT TiHEYTHROVE BY HIS MEANSHE LIKED TO BE MASTER AND ALWAYS WAHE WAS JUST AND LIKED HISJUSTICE TO BE RECOGnNISED HE WAS GENEROUS ALSO AND LIKED THA TOOO BE KNOWN HEKEPT A CARRIAGE FOR HIS WIFEWHO HAD BEEN THE DAUGHdTER OF A POOR CLERGYMAN ATWINDSOR AND WAS PROUD TO SEE HER AS WELL DRESSED AS THE WIFE OF ANY COUNTYSQUIRE BUT HE WAS A DOMIpNEERING HUSBAND AS HIS WIFE WORSHIPPED HIM AND REGAoRDEDHIM AS A JUPITER ON EARTH FROM WHOSE NOD THERE COULD BE AND SHOULD BE NO APPEALBUT LITTLE HARM CAME FROM THI IF A TYRANsHE WAS AN AFFECTIONATE TYRANT HIS WIFEFELT HIM TO BE SOHIS SERVANTSHIS PARISH AND HIS SCHOOL ALL FELT HIM TO BESOTHEY OBEYED HIMLOVED HIM AND BEtLIEVED IN HIMSO UPON THE WH&OLE AT THETIME WITH WHICH WE ARE DEALING DID THE DIOCESETHE COUNTY AND THAT WORLD OFPARENTS BY WHOM THE BOpYS WERE SENT TO HIS SCHOOtLBUT THIS HAD NOT COME ABOUTWITHOUT SOME HARD FIGHTING HE WAS OVER FIFTY YEARS OF AGE AND HAD BEEN RECTOROF BOWICK FOR NEARLY TWENTYi DURING THAT TIME THERE HAD BEEN A SUCCESSION OFTHREE BISHOPS AND HE HAD QUARRELLED MORE OR LESS WITH ALL OF THEM IT MIGHT BEJUSTER TO SAY THAT THEY HAD ALL OF THEM HAD MORE OR LESS OF OCCASION TO FIdNDFAULT WITH HIM NOW DR WO=RTLEOR MR WORTLEAS HE SHOULD BE CALLED IN REFERENCE TOTHAT PE4RIOD WAS A MAN WHO WOULD BEAR CENSURE FROM NO HUMAN BEING HE HAD LEFTHIS POSITION AT ETON BECAUSE THE HEAD6MASTER HAD REQUI1RED FROM HIM SOME SLIGHTCHANGE OF PRACTICE THERE HAD BEEN NO QUARREL ON THAT OCCAS8ION BUT MR WORTLEHAD GONEHE AT ONCE COMMENCED HIS SCHOOL AT BO&WICK TAKING HALF A DOZENPUPILS INTO HIS OWN HOUSE THE BISHOP OF THAT DAY SUGGESTED THAT THE CURE OF THESOpULS OF THE PARISHIONERS OF BOWICK WAS BEING SUBORiDINATED TO THE LATIN ANDGREEK OF THE SONS OF THE NOBILITY THE BISHOP GOT A RESPONSE WHICH GAVE AN ADDIdTIONALSATISFACTION TO HIS SPEEDY TRANSLATION TO A MORE COMFO=RTABLE DIOCES BETWEENTHE NEXT BISHOP AND MR WORTLE THERE WAS UNFORTUNAT5ELYMISUNDERSTANDINGANDALMOST FEUD FOR THE ENTIRE TEN YEARS DURING WHICH HIS LORDSHIP REIGNED IN THEPALACE OF BROUGHTON THIS BISHOP OF BROU8GHTON HAD BEEN ONE OF THAT LARGE BATCHOF LOW CHURCH PRELATES WHO WERE BROUGHT FORWARD UNDER LORD PALMERSTONAMONG THEMTHERE WAS NONE MORE LOW MORE PIOUS MORE SINCEREOR MORE GIVEN TO INTERFERENCETOTEACH MR WORT6LE HIS DUTY AS A PARISH CLERGYMAN WAS EVIDENTLY A NECESSITY TOSUCH A BISHOPTO REPUDIATE ANY SUCH TEACHING WAS EVIDENTLY A NECESSITY TO MRWORTLE CONSEQUENTLY THERE WERE DIFFERE9NCESIN ALL OF WHICH MR WORTLE CARRIEDHIS OWN4WHAT THE GOOD BISHOP SUFFERED NO ONE PROBABLY KNEW EXCEPT HIS WIFE ANDHIS DOMESTIC CHAPLAIWHAT MR WORTLE ENJOYEDOR DR WORTLE