But we must on with the Doctor in his career.  In 1785, for some reason unknown to his biographer, Parr resigned the school at Norwich, and in the year following went to reside at Hatton.  “I have an excellent house, (he writes to a friend,) good neighbours, and a Poor, ignorant, dissolute, insolent, and ungrateful, beyond all example. I like Warwickshire very much.  I have made great regulations, viz. bells chime three times as long; Athanasian creed; communion service at the altar; swearing act; children catechized first Sunday in the month; private baptisms discouraged; public performed after second lesson; recovered a 100_l_. a year left the poor, with interest amounting to 115_l_., all of which I am to put out, and settle a trust in the spring; examining all the charities.”

Here Warwickshire pleases Parr; but Parr’s taste in this, and in many other matters, (as we shall have occasion to show by and by,) was subject to change.  He soon, therefore, becomes convinced of the superior intellect of the men of Norfolk.  He finds Warwickshire, the Boeotia of England, two centuries behind in civilization.  He is anxious, however, to be in the commission of the peace for this ill-fated county, and applies to Lord Hertford, then Lord Lieutenant; but the application fails; and again, on a subsequent occasion, to Lord Warwick, and again he is disappointed.  What motives operated upon their lordships’ minds to his exclusion, they did not think it necessary to avow.

Providence has so obviously drawn a circle about every man, within which, for the most part, he is compelled to walk, by furnishing him with natural affections, evidently intended to fasten upon individuals; by urging demands upon him which the very preservation of himself and those about him compels him to listen to; by withholding from him any considerable knowledge of what is distant, and hereby proclaiming that his more proper sphere lies in what is near;—­by compassing, him about with physical obstacles, with mountains, with rivers, with seas “dissociable,” with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; that, like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is his first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the defence of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without extending his care to the whole circuit of the city walls.

The close of Parr’s life grew brighter, The increased value of his stall at St. Paul’s set him abundantly at his ease:  he can even indulge his love of pomp—­ardetque cupidine currus, he encumbers himself with a coach and four.  In 1816, he married a second wife, Miss Eyre, the sister of his friend the Rev. James Eyre; he became reconciled to his two grand-daughters, now grown up to woman’s estate; he received them into his family, and kept them as his own, till one of them became the wife of the Rev. John Lynes.