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Professor of civil Law? It is a very creditable Performance 

 indeed. 



Mrs Mulso's Love & best wishes attend You, & the Comps. of 

 this Family. 



I am, dear Gil, Afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 

 P.S. Why did You call me Sr: in ye Beginning of yours ? 



Letter 82. 



Sunbury, 



Febry 4, 1759. 

 Dear Gil : 



In what Manner to answer your Last I am at a Loss : we 

 have no towering Hills, no elegant Nests to copy, such as I found 

 inclosed in Your's : Neither am I Painter enough to give You so 

 just an Idea of them as You I beleive have conveyed to me of 

 your Hermitage by the handsome performance of Miss Culverton. 

 But indeed You have shewn a right picturesque Imagination in 

 ye Choice of the Motto ; in which, without ye Scratch under ye 

 last words, I could have found not only your poetical Fancy, but 

 your filial Piety. I am obliged to you for it ; & it is now in the 

 Hands of Briginshaw, our neatest Carpenter, to be framed. I 

 have been very much out of Order of late wth frequent Eeturns 

 of my Fits ; & a far greater Sufferer by the Piles than ever I was 

 before, & in a way in which they were not so serviceable as 

 sometimes they are said to be. I must hasten to tell You a 

 Piece of News relating to Myself, lest I be too much tired wth 

 writing before I get at it. 



Mr Stevens tells me that my Name is in one of the Papers, as 

 being newly made Chaplain to ye Bp of Sarum, and it is true 

 that I have lately enter'd myself in Form at ye Commons ; and 

 upon this odd Motive ; Mr. Trenley wrote me Word some Time 

 ago that one Mrs Palmer was his Friend & Client, & had ye 

 Disposal of a good Living just vacant, & had offer'd the Disposal 

 of it to him for any Friend, & he was so kind as to name me. So 

 I went to Town, & have proceeded so far as to lodge the Presen- 

 tation in ye Hands of the Bp of Winton. But as I hear all the 

 affairs of this Lady are not clear of Law, I stop now where I am 

 to see if no other Claimant can give a better Title to an other 

 Man. None has as yet done it, for we lodged a Caveat at the 

 Beginning. Yet I do not set my Heart upon it ; I find Jesus 

 College has been a Party in the Concerns of this Lady, & I am 

 not Hercules enough to encounter such a Hydra as a College is, 

 tho' You are. So I stop to give every Body fair Play, & Leizure 

 to claim their own : that I may not climb over ye Sheep Fold, 

 but go in honestly at ye Gate. The Name of this Living is 



