LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. 7 



not part in discontent. I said (I think) that all 

 incident charges being paid him, he should 

 have twenty shillings given him above his bar- 

 gain ; and now I add, as much more as you 

 think fitting. God Almighty have you in his 

 keeping, my dear friend. 



'* Your's, 



" W. C." 



" Fresingfield, 19th, 1691. 



*' Dear Friend, 



*' When I got once into the coach, I 

 resolved, according to my usual impatience, to 

 push on the journey, and play it off, as fast as 

 I could endure it ; and accordingly we went at 

 the utmost stretch, as you have heard. My 

 weariness soon went off; but, methinks, some 

 weakness still remains: Ma tempo fa tutto. We 

 build not at the rate we travelled at ; though 

 hay and harvest being in, we have recovered all 

 our gang. Yesterday we had thirty or forty at 

 the raising of the gallery ; and it stands now 

 in my view from the window I write by, like 

 the bones of a dead body, which you have read 

 upon at Chirurgeon's Hall, and then tacked to- 

 gether with wires : but it will take so much 

 time to daub and tile, to clothe, and cover it; 

 and St. Bartholomew is so nigh, with his dews 

 and mists, that I despair of dwelling in it this 



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