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son, and at length heir, of William Morton, Esq., of Moreton, in the county of Chester, formerly a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and also a Prebendary of the Cathedral Church at Chester, who, for thirty-six years more or less, not even those being left out in which he lived as if a banished man, despoiled of all his goods, was wont anxiously to rule this church. Of fortune, by no means equally a sharer, but to either equal. One who well knew how to use prosperity soberly, and, more, adversity bravely. A constant maintainer of primitive piety, and, moreover, learning He was nil but a martyr. Assuredly a bright and rare example. He died February 28th, in the year