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Excerpt from Humorous and Sentimental: Consisting of Cumberland Pastorals
John relph, the father of our poet, held a paternal inheritance, which, from its present value, might be 501. A year, from which he reared a family of four children, viz. Three sons and a daughter The small estate we speak of is in sebergham, about the middle of the county of Cumberland, by far the most rural and delightful situation in the north of England. This is the place of josiah relph' s nativity, who was born on the 3d of December, 171 2.
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