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your cure. I do assure you it is a sensible 

 trouble to me to hear these things of you. 

 I beseech you, for Christ's sake, for your own 

 sake, for your function's sake, let these things 

 be amended. I should be unwilling to use any 

 severity towards you, but if I do not hear that 

 your cure is better served henceforward, and 

 that you live a more sober and regular life, I 

 must and will take care that you shall stay no 

 longer there. I desire you take this my admo- 

 nition in good part, which nothing else but the 

 sense of my duty, and a concern for your good, 

 and the good of your parish, puts me upon. 

 And be pleased to let me hear of your receipt 

 of this letter, and that you are fully resolved to 

 follow my advice, which will be very accepta- 

 ble to, 



** Your's, &c. 



" Jo. Ebor." 



ANOTHER. 



" Sir, 



'* I hoped I should hear no more com- 

 plaints of you, after the admonition I gave you 

 by letter ; — but I find it otherwise. I might, 

 I think, without more ado, remove you from 

 that cure, you having no legal title to it, but 

 serving it only by admission. And if I did so, 

 I think I had ground enough for it. But that 

 you may have no colour to complain of hard 



