"I never heard of any silk-mills at Sheffield. If there was a Medical
Society in Sheffield then, its records might be examined."
Can our correspondent N. D. throw any further light upon this certainly
curious and interesting case?
_Richard Standfast_ (Vol. iii., p. 143.).--This divine is buried in Christ
Church, Bristol; having been rector of that church for the long space of
fifty-one years. There is a monument erected to his memory in the
above-mentioned building, with the following inscription:-- {193}
"Near this place lieth the body of Richard Standfast, Master of Arts,
of Sidney College in Cambridge, and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to his Majesty
King Charles I., who for his loyalty to the King and stedfastness in
the established religion, suffered fourteen years' sequestration. He
returned to his place in Bristol at the restoration of King Charles
II., was then made prebendary of the cathedral church of Bristol, and
for twenty years and better (notwithstanding his blindness) performed
the offices of the church exactly, and discharged the duties of an
able, diligent, and orthodox preacher. He was Rector of Christ Church
upwards of fifty-one years, and died August 24, in the seventy-eighth
year of his age, and in the year of Our Lord 1681.