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tents were communicated, and it was transmitted 

 by him to the Archbishop, then in Yorkshire, 

 October 10, 1710, to which he immediately re- 

 plied by writing to all the parties who had con- 

 cerned themselves in the communication of that 

 affair. His letter to Dr. Jablouski, which is the 

 most material, is as follows : 



" Yoric, Oct. 14, 1710. 



*' Rev. Sir, 



** I received the other day the favour 

 of a letter from you enclosed in one from Dr. 

 Hobart, for which I return you my humble 

 thanks. I shall esteem it a great honour to have 

 a correspondence with you by letters ; for 

 though I am a stranger to your person, I am not 

 so to your character : having had such an ac- 

 count from my friends in London of your great 

 learning and prudence and piety, that I must be 

 a very ill man myself if I had not a great esteem 

 for you. You may therefore, whenever you 

 please, freely communicate your mind to me, as 

 I shall make no scruple of doing the like to you. 

 And you may likewise assure yourself of all the 

 assistance that I can give you towards the fur- 



a letter at the same time which might be delivered in his name 

 to either of them. Dr. Smaldridge proved the man. See Dr. 

 Hobart's said letter, and another of Dr. Smaldridge's to the 

 Archbishop of York in the Appendix. 



