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in his account-book that, on the 21st of March, 1748, 

 he received 20 as his curate's stipend for one year. It 

 appears, however, that during the year in which he held 

 this curacy, he kept his terms at College, as he was 

 attacked with small-pox when at Oriel, which attack 

 continued from the middle of October to near the end 

 of November, 1747. This illness must have been a 

 severe one, as he was repeatedly bled, and had a nurse 

 from Selborne for five weeks the expenses attending 

 the illness amounting to more than fifty guineas, in- 

 cluding thirty guineas for physician's fees. 



He was ordained priest on Sunday, March 11, 1749, 

 in the chapel in Spring Gardens, London, by James 

 Beauclerk, Bishop of Hereford, " at the request of the 

 Bishop of Winchester," at that time the celebrated Ben- 

 jamin Hoadley. 



His first ecclesiastical connexion with his native parish 

 occurred by his appointment to the curacy of Selborne 

 on October 25, 1751, during the incumbency of Dr. 

 Bristow ; and he retained it only until the 10th of the 

 following March. On that day we find the following 

 statement in his account-book: "Mem. Threw up then 

 to enter on my proctorship," which he did on the 8th of 

 April, 1752. " 



In the brief memoir by his nephew which I have 

 already quoted, it is stated that he was " admitted one 

 of the senior proctors of the university." This is a mis- 

 take. He never was senior proctor. On the 8th of 

 April, 1752, he became junior proctor. In a very 

 curious and amusing account-book, which forms one of 

 the documents for which I am indebted to Mr. Algernon 

 White, and which will be found printed verbatim in the 

 second volume, he states that the book was purchased 



