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54 Memoir of
when youth, beauty, and pride of ancestry have
usually lost none of their attractions or advan-
tages, she united her fate with one, who, though
of an ancient and honorable family, had de-
voted his life to the ministry of the gospel, and
had, therefore, abandoned all hope or expecta-
tion of worldly advancement.
English clergymen generally submitted without
a murmur to ecclesiastical authority, or en-
dured in silence what they had not the courage
to resist; but in some instances, with no sacri-
fice of honor, they sought and found shelter
from molestation by the aid of friends in high
places.
From .the estimation in which Mr. Whiting's
family was held at Boston, proved by the fact
that its members were so often placed in posi-
tions of trust and responsibility, and from his
marriage with a lady whose noble lineage has
been before referred to; and supported, as he
was, by the influence, of his friend the Earl of
Lincoln, the rector of Skirbeck might reason-
ably have hoped for protection from the interference
of the bishop, or at least for a great