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have ye dearest Blessings in the World. However, I certainly 

 have one, & That material, I mean my Wife. I wish You to 

 succeed as well; in the mean Time your curacy of Morton 

 Pinkney* will go as far as my Vicarage at Sunbury. I have wrote 

 out my Time tho' not my Paper ; learn a little from me to answer 

 on Demand. All our Comps. 



I am Dear Gil, Afftely Your's, 



J. M. 



Letter 64. 



Sunbury, 



Febry 24, 1757. 

 Dear Gil : 



I received your's from Oxford Jan: 28, with an account 

 of your Election at Oriel ; but the first Account that I received 

 of it was from Sr Philip Musgrave, who had a Variety of Fortune 

 happened in his Family in the Space of a Fortnight ; for he had 

 a Son & Heir born, bis Sister Spragg left a Widow wth about 

 £10,000, & Chardin chosen Provost : & since that Time died Mr 

 Beckford from whom my Lady had I beleive Expectations of 

 getting Something. Sr Philip spoke of Frewen's Proceedings 

 as not very handsome upon the Occasion, & as putting them to 

 the Necessity of applying out of the College, when they would 

 have had it determined there : How that may be I do not know ; 

 but as You have not been the Man on this Preferment, I am 

 not sorry for the Success of Chardin ; unless it may prove any 

 Obstruction to your Designs for your Brother Harry, which 

 I greatly hope it will not. If Chardin behaves in his Post with 

 the good Sense & Judgement that Sr Philip talked of it, the 

 College will have no Eeason to repent their choice. I have still 

 a great deal to say to You on this Subject, but intend to say it & 

 not to write it. By your Account of the late Provost's, viz : 

 Walter Hodges's Legacy to the College, the Chance of the Estate 

 is very little during any Person's Time who is now born : I am 

 sorry You mention no Eemembrances to you & or your Family, 

 but your Brother Harry has the greatest present Loss in this 

 Friend. 



I hope this little Journey & the Bustle & Employment that 

 it has found You, have shook off your Indisposition ; I did not in 

 my own Mind attribute it to any particular Cause ; but when an 

 Illness hangs a good while & affects the Spirits, then ye Effects 

 are something foolish, as I find ; & it was on that Account that I 

 abused the Lingering. I thank God I have been better this 

 Winter than I could well have expected ; but I wear my Blister 



* An Oriel living in Northants, not valuable enough to vacate a Fellowship. 



