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Marbled boards. 4 vols bound in one, as follows. A PLAIN NARRATIVE, (by way of discourse) of the much lamented death of the Rev. Henry Peckwell, D.D., late Rector of Bloxham cum Digby, Lincolnshire, and chaplain to the Most Hon. the Marchioness Dowager of Lothian; who departed this life on Saturday, the 18th of August, 1787. Aged forty-one years. Which was occasioned by the prick of his finger, in the examination of the body of Mary Stone, a young woman who died in a decline. By which are interspersed strictures, of him as a minister, physician, philanthropist, &c. Also the particulars of the event which took place to bring him to the end of his days and usefulness. By a visiter of The Sick Man's Friend, who attended him in many visitations, and was conversant with him in almost every circumstance of this remarkable providence. [London]: to be had of the doorkeepers of Westminster Chapel [&c], [?1787] [BOUND WITH] Thomas GROVE, The Substance of a Sermon preached August the 26th, 1787, at the Chapel in Tottenham-court-road, and the Tabernacle near Moorfields, on the death of the Rev. Henry Peckwell, D.D., late Rector of Bloxham cum Digby, Lincolnshire; and chaplain to the Most Honourable the Marchioness Dowager of Lothian. Who departed this life August the 18th, 1787, aged 40 years. By T. Grove. The second edition. London: printed and sold by W. Smith [&c], [?1787} [BOUND WITH] John TOWNSEND, A Sermon, preached at Orange-Street Chapel, Leicester-Fields, on Sunday the 26th of August, 1787; occasioned by the much lamented death of the Rev. Henry Peckwell, D.D., Rector of Bloxham, in Lincolnshire, and chaplain to the Most Honourable the Marchioness Dowager of Lothian. London: printed by L. Wayland, 1787 [BOUND WITH] An ELEGY, occasioned by the death of the late Rev. Henry Peckwell, D.D., of Edmund-Hall, Oxford, Rector of Bloxham, in Lincolnshire, and chaplain to the most Honourable Marchioness Dowager of Lothian, who died, August 18th 1787, in the 42 year of his age. Gravesend: printed by R. Pocock, [?1787]. Covers worn and detached, sometime crudely repaired with tape, makeshift front free endpaper, rear free endpaper lacking, text-block loose and separating but sound. An interesting copy, with the ownership signature of Rupert D.S. Waugh, and inscribed below, "A. In Chancery In the Matter of the Act of Parliament 10th & 11th Victoria and In the Matter of the Trusts of the Will of Ann Caroline Blagrove Spinster and In the Matter of an Act 52 George 3rd This is the printed Book marked 'A' referred to in the Affidavit of George Frederick Abraham sworn in this Matter this 5th day of July - 1855 Before me [signature illegible]"; marginal mark on p. 45 of A Plain Narrative next to the passage "He being under God, one of the first promoters of that Christian-like society called The Sick Man's Friend, instituted in the year 1784, and kept up at the vestries of Tottenham Court and Westminster Chapels".
Henry Peckwell (c1746-1787) was a popular, if forthright, Methodist preacher, founder of the Sick Man's Friend and grandfather of the historian George Grote; Rufus Decimus Stephen Waugh (1803-1876) a carpet factor, in partnership with his brother Edgar Achilles Waugh, based in Southampton Street and Goodge Street off Tottenham Court Road. Among the many dispositions in her will Ann Caroline Blagrove (1782-1854), daughter of the notably rich plantation owner John Blagrove (1753-1824), of Cardiff Hall, Jamaica, left £2000 in consolidated annuities to the "Societies and schools in connection with Tottenham Court Chapel"; claimants for this legacy were invited to the chambers of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Page Wood, on 17 July 1855 - among them, evidently, the veteran solicitor George Frederick Abraham (1781-1870), acting, one presumes, for Peckwell's charity the Sick Man's Friend.
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