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Islington, to hold it for one year, receiving all 

 the profits, and then to resign it, and be curate 

 for half the income. Mr. Cooke was accordingly 

 instituted into the living by the Bishop of Bath 

 and Wells, on the 18th of October. 



In the mean time, Mr. Wharton continued in 

 Dr. Cave's house, and on the 16th October 

 wrote at Dr. Tenison's request an answer to 

 Speculum Ecclesiasticum, by T. Ward, a Roman 

 Catholic soldier. 



Dr. Cave and his family returning to town, 

 he went to Ridge, between Barnet and St. 

 Alban's, on the 25th October ; and, though he 

 was seized with a rheumatism, he wrote a ser- 

 mon, and preached for the first time there the 

 Sunday following, October 30th, for the vicar, 

 Mr. Mills, who v/as absent. 



He returned to London November 2d, and, 

 his patron not being come to town, he lodged 

 at Mr. Barrow's, in Thames Street. A few 

 days after, he was persuaded to undertake a 

 confutation of the defence of the Speculum 

 Ecclesiasticum ; he wrote it on the 14th No- 

 vember; and, being joined to the former answer, 

 it was published on the 20th. 



His patron, now Lord Arundel by the sudden 

 death of his father, came to London on the 16th 

 of that month, and took a lodging in Great 

 Queen Street, where Mr. Wharton was intro- 



