Within the last few months it has struck me that so many likely to feel an interest in my Recollections have passed away, and others are so far advanced in life, that if the publication be longer delayed, few indeed will be left likely to feel any interest in my narrative. Conscious of failures in memory at my advanced age, I have availed myself of memoranda made when travelling, long before any book of this kind was contemplated. I have been greatly helped in this volume by my dear daughter, with whom I reside, who has frequently accompanied me in my travels, and been my valued secretary at home. Without her aid I could not have brought these Recollections through the press. TUNBRIDGE WELLS, _January_, 1894. CONTENTS CHAPTER I 1807–1828 PAGE Birth and boyhood in Norwich—Education—My mother—Early 1–18 tastes—First sight of the sea—Public events—Early studies—Roman Catholicism—Friendships—Religious change—The Christian ministry—College days CHAPTER II 1828–1832 Fellow-students—Public excitements—Old House of 19–38 Commons—William IV.—Popular preachers in London: Daniel Wilson, Rowland Hill, James Parsons, Irving, Dr. Chalmers—Monthly lectures—Work amongst the poor—Political excitement CHAPTER III 1832–1837 First sight of Windsor—Anecdotes of George III.—Rev. A. 39–58 Redford—New chapel and ordination—Bishop Selwyn—Funeral of William IV.—Queen Victoria’s coronation and wedding—Chaplainship to a Highland regiment—Eton Montem—Windsor Auxiliary to Bible Society—Queen’s patronage—Windsor a century ago—Eton Institute—Early friendships CHAPTER IV 1837–1843 Sir Culling Eardley and tent preaching—Case of 59–75 conscience—Public questions—Missionary tours—Newstead Abbey—Byron and Scott—Royal visit to Edinburgh—Up the Rhine—The Rev. W. Walford—Bagster, the publisher—Radicals a century, ago—John Bergne, of the Foreign Office—Tractarian controversy, and No. 90 CHAPTER V 1843–1850 Removal to Kensington—Life of Dr. Arnold—Ladies’ schools 76–100 at Kensington—Kensington friends—Archdeacon Sinclair—British Schools and Duchess of Inverness—British and Foreign Bible Society; London Missionary Society—Young Men’s Christian Association—Evangelical Alliance—Sub Rosâ—Tractarianism and Dr. Pusey—Political excitement—Visit to Geneva—Cæsar Malan—Notting Hill Chapel—Father of Rev. F. D. Maurice—Visit to Newport Pagnell and the haunts of the poet Cowper CHAPTER VI 1850–1854 The papal aggression—Discourses on the Romanist 101–119