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Sketch of the Annalist's parents, Richard and Elizabeth Shack leton.—The school-house and garden.—Elizabeth Haughton, William Gill, and John Buckley.—Ballitore School.—French and Norwegian pupils.—Story of Aldborough Wrightson.—Edmund Burke an "old Ballitore boy."—Anecdotes of his childhood and boyhood.—His subsequent visits to Ballitore.—Fuller's Court, its inhabitants and its early attractions.—Notices of George Rooke, one of the early Quaker patriarchs.—His daughter Rachael, and granddaughter Deborah Carleton.—Tom and Sam Eyre ————— 37 to 68

BALLITORE SCHOOL, at the earliest period to which my memory extends, was kept by my father Richard Shackleton, who was then in the prime of life. He was carefully educated by his parents, according to the system prevailing in the time of his childhood, which occasioned greater restraint and awe of parental authority than that which he adopted in the education of his own children. In early life, although, from the liveliness of his disposition, exposed to temptation, he turned his back upon the allurements of the world, and embraced religion with a heart sincerely devoted to it. He married Elizabeth Fuller, an amiable and worthy young woman, to whom he had been long attached, and