reckless Marquis of Halifax, Henry Carey, who wrote one of the few
English ballads that live. Another, the poet's granddaughter, was
the mother of Edmund Kean, and he at first was known by her name on
the stage.

At that time when the weaver became the lord the grandfather of the
missionary was parish clerk and first schoolmaster of the village of
Paulerspury, eleven miles south of Northampton, and near the ancient
posting town of Towcester, on the old Roman road from London to
Chester. The free school was at the east or "church end" of the
village, which, after crossing the old Watling Street, straggles for
a mile over a sluggish burn to the "Pury end." One son, Thomas, had
enlisted and was in Canada. Edmund Carey, the second, set up the
loom on which he wove the woollen cloth known as "tammy," in a
two-storied cottage. There his eldest child, WILLIAM, was born, and
lived for six years till his father was appointed schoolmaster, when
the family removed to the free schoolhouse. The cottage was
demolished in 1854 by one Richard Linnell, who placed on the still
meaner structure now occupying the site the memorial slab that
guides many visitors to the spot. The schoolhouse, in which William
Carey spent the eight most important years of his childhood till he
was fourteen, and the school made way for the present pretty
buildings.

The village surroundings and the country scenery coloured the whole
of the boy's after life, and did much to make him the first
agricultural improver and naturalist of Bengal, which he became.
The lordship of Pirie, as it was called by Gitda, its Saxon owner,
was given by the Conqueror, with much else, to his natural son,
William Peverel, as we see from the Domesday survey. His