LETTER XLVIII 87 



mission. Poor Miss Heck was not wth us, She is attending my 

 Father in Town & preparing for a Journey to Canterbury. My 

 Father mends, but did not venture to e.0 the Circuit, Tom is his 

 Representative, & Mr Chapone is Clerk of the Arraigns in his 

 Stead. They set out on Sunday. 



I hope your good Father is got stouter, than your last Letter 

 promised & that You are agreably deceived. I should be very 

 glad to hear of his established Health. My best Wishes attend 

 Him and his Family. My Comps. to Mr. & Mrs. Gibson. We 

 hope the widow is well. I have quite exhausted my Time. I 

 wish I could have been more particularly descriptive ; but I 

 despise Ld Cobham's. C'est tout dire. 



I am, dear Gil, Your's Afftely, 



J. MULSO. 



Letter 48. 



Hampton, 



Sepr 16, 1754. 

 Dear Gil : 



Pray have You laid down a Eule of punishing me, when I 

 have been faulty, in so severe a Manner ? It is true that I was 

 wrong in not sooner answering your first Lr & yet I gave a 

 Eeason why I chose to deferr writing. But You — well, but You 

 own that You are a Wretch, so I will harangue no more, tho' I 

 am very angry that You have neglected me so long. 



Indeed I should be glad to hear how your Father does, & the 

 general State of our Hampshire Friends ; You last mentioned 

 Your Father as so weak that there was Danger of his not getting 

 any Degree of Hardiness before Winter, I shd therefore be glad 

 to hear that You are agreably mistaken in that Point. 



I was in Hertfordshire for almost a week wth Missy about a 

 month ago. It is a Pity that there is not an Act of Parliament 

 for widening all the Roads thro'out England. About Rickmans- 

 worth is really as beautifull a Country as the eye can desire to 

 see ; it is quite in your way ; here, bold prominent Hills hung 

 wth woods, gentler Uplands, rural Lawnds, & ever -green Vallies, 

 wth a fine Trout-River running along them. More Park and 

 Cassioberry are fine Spots, the latter is much the largest & 

 finest. I told Captain Young that I would some time or other 

 bring You over for a Night or two, and He gave You a very 

 friendly Invitation. I have not of a great while spent more 

 agreable Days, or been anywhere more politely received. But 

 my Visit ended bad for me, I caught a violent Cold by a late 

 Walk in More Park the last Night, it became an Inflammation 

 in my Face, by which I have suffered a great deal, & been so 

 feavered & tender, that I was a prisoner for a week in Missy's 



