230 CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE REV. R. CHURTON. 

 LETTER XXVI. 



FKOM ME. CHURTON TO GILBERT WHITE. 



Brasen-Nose, Mar. 15, 1793. 



DEAR SIR, 



DR. LOVEDAY has robbed me of the pleasure of making you 

 a present of a book lately published here, to which we are 

 jointly in different ways contributors. I hope you will have 

 received your copy from Fleet Street, attended with one from 

 Dr. Chandler, before this reaches you. And now let me can- 

 vass you for the author of the Village Curate. Mount your 

 steed not immediately though, but next Michaelmas and 

 assist in putting the Professorship of Poetry in hands worthy 

 to be employed where Lowth and Warton have appeared be- 

 fore. At the same time, please to inform Dr. Chandler that 

 he owes me a letter, and that he must get Dr. Bingham and 

 every vote he can for a gentleman of his own college. The 

 Trinity gentlemen, Mr. Clarke and Kett, have each secured 

 some votes in our college and elsewhere by starting so early ; 

 but we are at least two to one in Br.-Nose friends to Mr. 

 Hurdis (or his merits rather, for we were not acquainted with 

 him), and several active in his cause. 



I am very glad you are so well pleased with your neice. 

 Mr. Armetriding is just married to a Lancashire lady, about 

 the size of her you mention ; but there is not one of our 

 Northamptonshire rectors married, nor, I fear, going to be. 

 The house at Middleton has begun, or is about to begin, to 

 rise, after having stood still during the winter. 



Best respects to all friends. 



I am ever, with truest esteem, dear Sir, 



Your most obliged servant, 



R. CHURTON. 



