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mea id permitteret, donatiirum esse. Libenter 

 quidem et sponte mea, et Petriburgensis admo- 

 nitu id feci, summisque ab eo promissis cumu- 

 latus discessi." 



Examined the next day by Dr. Beveridge,\ 

 Archdeacon of London, and, on the 26th of Fe- 

 bruary, ordained deacon by the Bishop of 

 Peterborough, at St. Peter's, Cornhill. — A few i 

 days after, (he) visits the Bishop of Durham, 

 according to his orders, who repeats all his 

 former promises, but desires him to stay with 

 Dr. Cave, till he had taken his degree of M. A. 

 and then to come and settle in his family. He 

 frequently afterwards visited the Bishop, who 

 renewed the same promises. 



*' Historiae interim literarise, juncta cum Cavo 

 opera, insudavi, licet ipse post annum millesi- 

 mum aut parum aut nihil conferret. Medio 

 circiter Maio, historiam ad annum usque 1275 

 deduxeramus, cum Windesoram pro more abe- 

 undum fuit. Die itaque 19 Maii Windesoram 

 profectus, ubi post bidui moram Cavus deside- 

 rium alta jamdiu mente repostum mihi exposuit. 

 Cum me enim e familia ejus sub sequentis 

 mensis exitum (prout ipsi denuntiaveram)egres- 

 surum expectaret, de incepto opere ad umbili- 

 cum perducendo desperare csepit. Me itaque 

 rogavit ut Islingtonam reversus finem communi 

 operi propediem imponerem. Postulatis ejus 



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