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meet them, and <persname>B</persname><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi><persname> & S</persname><hi rend="superscript"><persname>r</persname></hi><persname> Marshall</persname> arrived soon after, but not
my Daughters. The Bath was of use on account of my late
dear Husband's lameness, but the Physician advised him to
travel for the recovery of his health, saying he was too labor-
ous for his weak system of Body, and needed a little Re-
laxation. Upon which with some other concerning circumstanc-
es, he determined to take a Journey to <placename>Sweden</placename>, & put it into execu-
tion in <date>May 1774</date> intending to return to <placename>Fulneck</placename> the same Year,
not supposing it would <add>not</add> be possible for him to continue in Swe-
den, as he had affronted the Swedish Clergy by sending them back
his Ordination, as he had taken the Brethren's Ordination.
Preview to these steps, it was thought that the <persname>Bishop</persname> in
<placename>Sweden</placename> had not acted so candidly towards him as might have
been expected. But he being dead & his Son succeeding him, strove
all in his power to make good every thing in which he thought
my late <persname>Husband</persname> had been injured from that quarter. This
<persname>Bishop Son</persname> to the former was the chief instrumenter his perceiv-
ing the Living he got in <placename>Sweden</placename>. Neither was he without fruit[?]
there, of which there are still living Kitnesses[?]. After having
enjoyed it twelve Years, he departed this Life happily <date><add>May 30 1792</add></date> and bless-
edly in the 72<hi rend="superscript">nd</hi> Year of his Age. Upwards of 48 of thou Years
we spent together very comfortably, our marriage was blest with
no nine Children, five of whom have entered into their eternal
Rest. The Day my late dear Husband departed this Life,
as I was pr[??]ing out the distress of my heart into our dear Sa-
viour's, I was amazingly comforted by the following text as if
spoken to me: "I the Lord say, if a Stranger, in a strange land