98 LETTERS TO aiLBBBT WHITE 



sum up neither Besolution nor Viatioam. I now lay it Ckside; 

 You are my great Biass when I roll that way, & You are got out. 

 I cannot prove that Sunbury is the nearest way from Selbourne 

 to Bristol ; but it certainly is from Bristol to Selbourne ; because 

 the Round-a-bout way is the nearest Way Home : if You don't 

 enter into this Logic, You may be an Oxford Man, but You are 

 not the Man I take You for. I expect my Father every Minute, 

 who will dine wth me, if the high wind does not blow Him 

 back again. He is tolerably well, he did not venture going the 

 Circuit, but was a good deal wth Me, which was of Service ; He 

 is coming for a few Days ; our Scheme of Health is riding ; we 

 ride ten, 12, 14 Miles of this Country, but that is nothing to 70. 

 Mr & Miss Y. will come to Hampton ye Beginning of June. 

 Mr Baker will be there again. Your Brother Jack is coming to 

 make a Visit to HaLrwood of Sheperton, & has promised to call 

 in upon ye Vicar of Sunbury. I am glad to hear that John 

 Bosworth is got so well again. You give me Pleasure in hearing 

 of the Stand made agst the perverse Party of Oriel. I would the 

 Provost should live 'till You succeed Him (if that is English ; it 

 sounds Irish) & then if I have a Son he goes to Oriel, if to 

 College. 



My Father is come, & wishes You well. You do not mention 

 Your's particularly, so I suppose Him pretty tight & hope all 

 your Family are so. I am reading ye Bp of London's 2 : Vol : I 

 am charmed wth his Manner ; Dear White, come & preach for 

 me ; I despise all my own Trumpery Stuff. 



Well, may all the Dii Lares have You in Protection ; or 

 seriously, may He before whom Milton describes their Flight so 

 charmingly, while there was 



A voice of weeping heard & loud lament — 



I am, dear Gil : Afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 54. 



Sunbury, 



May 28, 1756. 

 Dear Gil : 



I hope the Hot- Wells* are of Service to you ; & cool your 

 Blood ; since, like myself, You cannot afford to take unto Your- 

 self any other Cooler. The everlasting Prebendaries of Peter- 

 boro' are all in good Health, as I am informed by the Bishop, 

 from whose House at Kew I am come over this Morning to read 

 Prayers. I am charmed wth your Description of the Site of 

 your Parsonage House, I see it in Idea, &, if I did not fear to 

 make You look grave, I should say, that is all I beleive I shall 



* At thia time Gilbert White made a second visit to the hot well at Bristol. 



