He built a small chapel at Thornbury on his own estate, where the Wesleyan ministers regularly officiated. In 1806 he removed to Taunton, where he resided for about six years, built a chapel at a cost of £3000, adding £150 a year for the minister. On the decline of his health in 1812, he went to live by the seaside at Budleigh Sulterton, in Devonshire. Here also he erected a chapel which cost £2000, and endowed it with a minister's stipend of £150 per annum. James Lackington died of paralysis in the seventieth year of his age, on the 22d of November, 1815, and was buried in the Budleigh Churchyard. None will deny the successful bookseller the right to the Latin motto with which he has adorned the frontispiece to the first edition of "Memoirs and Confessions," viz., _Sutor ultra crepidam feliciter ausus_.[7] [7] "The shoemaker happily abandoned his last." It may be interesting to note that the writer's copy of this curious book once belonged to Henry Thomas Buckle, author of "The History of Civilization." On the fly-leaf are memoranda of Wesleyan and Jonsonian anecdotes which Buckle had evidently made for his own use. CHAPTER III. [Illustration: REV. S. BRADBURN] Samuel Bradburn, THE SHOEMAKER WHO BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. "I was a poor ignorant cobbler."--_Samuel Bradburn, Life of Samuel Bradburn_, p. 227. "During forty years Samuel Bradburn was esteemed the Demosthenes of Methodism."--_Abel Stevens, LL.D., quoted on title-page of Life of S. B._ "I have never heard his equal; I can furnish you with no adequate idea of his powers as an orator; we have not a man among us that will support anything like a comparison with him.... I never knew one with so great a command of language."--_Dr. Adam Clarke._ "The generous and noble-minded Samuel Bradburn, whose ability as a public speaker was all but unrivalled."--_Rev. Thomas Jackson, President of the Wesleyan Conference._ SAMUEL BRADBURN.