Improvement of the Mind

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. While in this afflicting situation, he was received into the house of Sir Thomas Abney, of Newington, Knight and Ai derman of London, where he was entertained with the ut most tenderness, friendship, and liberality, for the space of thirty-six years. Sir Thomas died about eight years after Dr Watts became an inmate in his family, but he continued with Lady Abney and her daughters to the end of his life: Lady Abney died about a year after him, and the last of the family, Mrs. Elizabeth Abney, in'l782.