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which he always exceedingly delighted. Besides, having so fre- 

 quently and fully, (as I conceived,) declared his intention, and 

 having an entire confidence in the integrity of his nephews, he 

 might perhaps, after my leaving him, become less solicitous 

 about it. But if, through such an omission, there should be any 

 considerable diminution of his Grace's benefaction to the Col- 

 lege, it must needs be with manifest injury to his glorious me- 

 mory, and a direct opposition to his known intentions. 



Soon after his Grace's decease, Mr. Green gave me an ac- 

 count of it, and of the difficulties he apprehended, in acting 

 pursuant to what my most honoured Lord had designed. I 

 immediately wrote back to encourage him, and to remind him 

 of what I knew to be his Grace's intention, (and what, I pre- 

 sume, he also knew as well as myself,) persuading him as ear- 

 nCistly as 1 could, to have no other regard in that affair, but 

 what especially answered my Lord's bountiful and generous de- 

 signs ; that, in this, he would have the greatest satisfaction, it 

 being, (as I thought) a direct duty owing from him to our 

 common patron and benefactor. And I persuade myself he will 

 not at all deviate from it, if the executors call him to it, in 

 whose power, and at whose discretion, I fear, that affair re- 

 mains to be managed. I wrote to him the sum of what I re- 

 membered his Grace was pleased to discourse to me ; viz. that 

 at length he had determined where to bestow his books, which 

 was, the College ; that, as for all those which were at Lambeth, 

 he desired they should be speedily put into that Society's pos- 

 session, (and I do not know that he ever took any service I have 

 been able to pay him more kindly than the journey I took to 

 London on that occasion,) which was done accordingly. At 

 my return, with an account of their being lodged safely in your 

 College, and delivering the Master's letter of thanks to him, he 

 was exceedingly pleased j as much, I am sure, with the thoughts 

 of their being so kindly entertained by you, as you could be 

 with the sense of his bounty and affection. 



" During my stay there, he more than once repeated, what 



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