LETTER XXXIII - 61 



I unfortunately miss'd of seeing Bob Carter twice on Wednes- 

 day last. He called on me at Sunbury in ye Morning when I 

 was at Hampton, & at Hampton in the Afternoon when I was at 

 Laylam. Was not You to have seen Mr Pelham's new Belvi- 

 dere wth Me this Summer ? suppose You return to Selbourne Via 

 Londini, but turn off before You come there ? Tom rides, for a 

 Companion, & will want One. My Girl will be glad to see You, 

 & shall be of the Party. But this will be settled when I see 

 You. 



I am going to London some Day next week to swear before a 

 Master in Chancery that my Church is rebuilt. Indeed it is 

 almost finished; but will not be used yet awhile. If You can 

 help me to a good Inauguration Sermon for it, do. We gather'd 

 for ye Propagation of the Gospell in our small Village above 

 eighteen Pounds, which I think very handsome. 



Jenny's Eespects attend Mr. Proctor. Mine, all your good 

 Family. I am, dear Gil, Your's affectionately, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 33. 



Sunbury, 



Aug : 19, 1752. 

 Dear Gil : 



I hope You arrived safe in Hampshire after your obliging 

 Journey to Oxford. We are here got together again, where our 

 greatest Pleasure seems to consist in Keflexions upon our late 

 Transactions. We all agree that the Proctor understands how to 

 give ye most agreable Turn to every Thing, & to improve every 

 Scheme of Tast. And we all agree that we have great Obligations 

 to Him for putting Himself to so much Trouble & Expence for 

 Us. I am loaded wth the acknowledgements of the Ladies as 

 well as the Gentlemen, & I know I should surfeit You wth Self 

 Love, if I could make you take seriously every Praise which they 

 profess seriously to give. 



Ned & I passed a very muzzy sort of double Day in ye Stage 

 Coach on Saturday ; the Spirit of the Excursion was over, & we 

 were vastly more fatigued wth going the short way to London 

 than We were in going the longest to Oxford. I observ'd that 

 Sr Francis Dashwood has made vast Improvements at his Seat 

 at West Wiccomb since I was last on that Eoad, & a very sweet 

 Place it seems to be. I could discover two or three pretty 

 Vessells on his water. The Eoad too is greatly improved being 

 now all Turnpike Eoad to Town, & Stoken church Hill being 

 wide enough open'd to admit three or four Carriages abreast all 

 the way up. Ned was pleased wth what Prospect we could see, 



