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duced to him by Dr. Tenison, and it was agreed 

 that he should come into his family about eight 

 days after. During which he went to Cam- 

 bridge, in order to examine the MSS. there; 

 several eminent divines of London having often 

 requested him to make such a search there, as 

 he had already done in the royal library at St. 

 James's; and Mr. Chiswell, the bookseller, fur- 

 nishing the expense of the journey, and having 

 a design to publish a collection of English his- 

 torians not yet published, desired Mr. Wharton 

 to mark what he thought worthy of publication. 

 He accordingly went to Cambridge, November 

 21st, and having searched the libraries, and 

 made extracts, returned to London on the 2d 

 December, and went to Lord Arundel's on the 

 7th. 



On the 28th November, his Treatise of the 

 Celibacy of the Clergy was published, and his 

 '^ Incurable Scepticism" on the 12th December, 

 for each of which pieces he received ten guineas 

 of the booksellers.* ~ ' 



* It is stated in his published Life that '^ this and his other 

 pieces so raised his reputation, that the Romanists were anxious 

 to gain him over to their party, and the most excellent pieces 

 were sent to him out of France for that purpose. But, to use 

 his own expression, (probably from this Life of himself, of 

 which Dr. Birch has made extracts,) quo magis Pontificiorum 

 scripta pervolvi, eo leviora et futiliora illorum argumenta mihi 



