MEMOIRS, &c.

64, line 12, for "Mr. W. Petty," read "Sir W. Petty."

MEMOIRS

ETC. ETC.

CHAPTER I.

A. D. 1780-1800.

PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.

THE history of the Life of Michael Thomas Sadler must be, in a great measure, a history of opinions, rather than of events. The chief circumstances of his career, viewed without reference to the workings of his ever-active mind, may soon be told. He was born at Snelston in Derbyshire, in the year 1780 he continued to reside in that village and in the neighboring one of Doveridge, until the year 1800, when he removed to Leeds. In 1813 he entered into partnership with the widow of the late Samuel Fenton, Esq. of that place, whose eldest daughter he married in 1816. In March 1829 he was returned to Parliament as

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one of the representatives for the borough of Newark; for which place he was re-elected in July, 1830. In May, 1831, Parliament having been again dissolved, he was returned for the borough of Aldborough in Yorkshire. His connection with Parliament terminating in December 1832, he removed about a year afterwards to Belfast in Ireland, where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in July 1835, in the 56th year of his age.

He was the youngest son of Mr. James Sadler, who appears to have been, at the time of his birth, residing upon and cultivating a small estate in the adjoining parishes of Snelston and Doveridge in Derbyshire. By his will he bequeaths, "all my freehold and copyhold estate in Doveridge, to my son Joseph Sadler," "and all my freehold estate in Marston Montgomery, to my sons Benjamin and Michael Thomas Sadler."

Mr. James Sadler,-whom family tradition always described as a descendant of the celebrated Sir Ralph Sadler, of the sixteenth century,*had married, in 1766, Frances, the daughter of the Rev. Michael Ferrebee, Rector of Rolleston

The probabilities of this circumstance will be considered, at more length than would be expedient in this place, in note A. in the Appendix.