John Donne-cousin

from Avery History….

"(Parting) thoughts come now from the long dorment quill of John Donne, who was an English contemporary of our Avery forebears, a dean of Old St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and the author of a piece known as "Meditation XVII," which he included in his larger publication titled Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions published four hundred years ago in 1624. It is within the body of "Meditation XVII" that timeless words of Donne's may be found"

…No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee…"(source). 

With such profound musings so comes to a close our explorations of the past; sadly ours must be a silent parting as the bells of Old St. Paul's Cathedral in London were destroyed in 1666 during The Great Fire of London and the bells of First Congregational Church in New London can no longer toll due to its steeple collapsing and the subsequent removal of the remainder of the church."

https://averymemorialassociation.com/2024/05/16/situating-avery-forebears-within-the-larger-contexts-of-17th-century-fashion-fire-flames-religious-worship/

          

I think they saved the stone… let's hope they don't use it to backfill the bad job of building the new piers for the STUPIDWONDERFUL wind farm.

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