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clergy, viz. his domestic chaplains, and such as 

 were already beneficed within his diocese, nor 

 did he in any instance desert this rule, except 

 in the following case, which should be men- 

 tioned that the exception may be justified ; viz. 

 in the promotion of the Hon. Mr. Henry Finch, 

 (afterwards Dean of York,) to the prebend of 

 Wetwang, one of the best in the church, in 

 1695 ; and of the Hon. Mr. Edward Finch to 

 the same stall upon his brother's resignation of 

 it, in 1704. These had been his pupils, and 

 were branches of that noble house to which he 

 in great measure owed all that he had ; and 

 were the only persons of that family who were 

 in a capacity of receiving the tokens of his gra- 

 titude in this way of donation. These two 

 worthy gentlemen being excepted, it will be 

 found that of forty-six stalls which he filled in 

 the two fore-mentioned churches, and in less 

 than half that number of years, all were filled 

 agreeably to the foregoing resolution : and that 

 he might observe due proportion in the distri- 

 bution of these favours among his clergy, he 

 reserved his stalls at Southwell /or the parochial 

 clergy of Nottijighamshire, where that church 

 is situate ; — those of York for the Yorkshire 

 clergy. And this disposition he preserved to 

 the last. 



It will hardly be supposed but he had n:iijiy 



