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1 am wonderfully delighted with the addition to my brother's 

 little common parlor* ; " nequeunt expleri corda tuendo;" it 

 now altogether gives much ease to such a numerous family, 

 and is very peculiarly light, roomy, and convenient, containing 

 400 square feet. Mr. Amyand is a very genteel pleasing 

 youth. He puts me in mind of Mr. Brocket. 



Yours affect. 



GIL. WHITE. 



Pray write soon to Selborne. 



P.S. When the children are buzzing down at their spinnet, 

 and we grave folks sit round the chimney, I am put in mind 

 of the following couplet, which you will remember : 



" All the distant din that world can keep 

 Rolls o'er my grotto and improves my sleep." 



LETTER XXV. 



TO THOMAS WHITE, ESQ.f 



Selborne, June 30, 1777. 

 DEAR BROTHER, 



THE Dr.'s letter on the other side is very satisfactory and very 

 edifying : for it not only proves that our Temple belonged to 

 the Knights Templars, but that it was also a Prece.ptory, the 

 PRECEPTORY of RUUINGTOX, now called Southington^ not- 

 withstanding that B p Tanner asserts that he never could find 

 more than two preceptories in this county, viz. Godesfield 

 and S. Badeisley. Hence we may be certain that the B p did 

 not get access to the Magd. Coll. archives. 



Tho' the lands of the convent and the Templars abutted on 



* [Where he was staying, and whence he dates this letter. T. B.] 

 t [This letter and tliat of Dr. Chandler are in substance embodied in 

 the Xlth letter of the Antiquities (Vol. I. p. 316). In this department 

 of his work the author's obligations to Dr. Chandler were very great ; and 

 a comparison of the present letter from him with the passage in the An- 

 tiquities referred to, will show this in a striking manner. T. 13.] 



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