Poets

Quoted from Needwood Forest and the Fall of Needwood, With Other Poems, 1830, the Preface says, His kindness of heart was shown in his intercourse, not only with the rich and the noble, but with the patient poor and the secret sufferer. It was his delight to relieve the afflictions of those who lived in the neighbourhood, and the story of misfortune found a listener in his ready sympathy. As a magistrate, in which capacity he for many years presided as chairman at the Quarter Sessions, his impartiality was universally respected, and his interpretation of the laws held in reverence. The firmness with which he enforced their sanctions, was tempered by a lenient consideratio

"The Volume now presented to the Public, consists of two principal descriptive Poems, and several smaller effusions in verse, chiefly exhibiting the playful spirit of their Author. The late F. N. C. Mundy, Esq. still lives in the remembrance of many of those friends, who were cheered and instructed by his early familiarity, and his extensive acquaintance with men and manners. ... ... But it is in the amiable character of one whose taste was highly cultivated, and over whose social relaxation it threw a constant charm, that Mr. Mundy appears in the volume now published.

"Needwood Forest" was first presented to his friends in the year 1776, and was read with great interest by all who were familiar with its verdant lawns, its shelving banks, its far-stretching vistas, and its variegated bowers. The "Fal..