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what I was very sorry to hear, that your Brother Jack was 

 coming to Town for Advice, & that he was in an ugly way. 



That ridiculous Creature Harman Leece was married on May 

 Day last, so You will have a Bride to visit while You are in 

 Town. She is a good gentile young Lady of about twenty two, 

 her Name was Lewis ; She has a pretty Fortune, & a better 

 Eeversion, which if Harman is not deceived in it, will be very 

 considerable. The Bishop married Them. Tom & Ned were 

 Bridemen, & Miss Thomas & Miss Young were Bridemaids. My 

 Father gave Her away. The Bridegroom gave a Supper that 

 Night at the Bedford Head, where about two & twenty of Us sat 

 down to about four & twenty Dishes & a Desert. 



I am to take a Sweat next Tuesday at St. Martins Church, 

 where I have the grinning Honour of preaching before the Bishop 

 of London at his Visitation. I desire when You come that You 

 will bring your Proctorian Speech, that I may have the Pleasure 

 of reading it, and that You would bring your Selbourne Voice 

 that You may be heard in our Church. 



We have here a good deal of Eain, in heavy Showers, & often 

 mixed wth Hail, which has beat off a good deal of our Blossom, 

 tho' we have a fair Shew for Fruit this Year, which seems healthy 

 and plenteous. This is the Season for Sunbury, before the 

 stronger Heats burn Us up. Our Nightingales are almost tired 

 wth Singing, & the Cuckow grows Hoarse : Yet have I not yet 

 left off my great Coat in my Eides before Dinner, and my Fire 

 wants stirring very often ; so cold are the Eains. The East wind 

 has put back the Grass so much that I can get None for my 

 Horse at half a Crown pr week : so She is forced to stand on ye 

 dry Stable, which is no Advantage to Her. 



The Bishop removes to Kew on Monday next with his Family. 

 "While You are wth Me we must make a Visit there. Mr. & Miss 

 Young are to be at Hampton this Summer, so that I shall be 

 very much there, but they are not coming yet. Where my 

 Father & his Family are to be I don't know. Poor Mr Young 

 about three weeks ago was taken by a Stroke of the Palsey, 

 which affected bis Head & his right Side ; but He is surprizingly 

 well again, & finds only a Stiffness in his Hand, & weakness from 

 his severe Eegimen. This Complaint is much more common 

 than it used to be, & as it is so, I hope it will become more 

 tractable. Bating a Cold & a great Propensity to ye Toothach, 

 I have of late been pretty well & in good Spirits, which I in part 

 am willing to attribute to riding. Not but that my Stages are 

 so short, that I by no means set up for a Horseman yet, nay I 

 think I am more subject to galling than ever. However, I will 

 exert Myself to give You all the Diversion I can. In the mean 

 beleive me to be 



Dear Gil, Afftely Yours, 



Eemember me to our Friends at Oriel. J. Mulso. 



