148 LETTEKS TO QILBBRT WHITE 



suppose You come to Banyard's at ye Bush at Staines whose 

 Drivers are ye best at crossing ye Country ; tho* our cross Roads 

 will not inspire You wth so much fear as ye Selbourne Roads 

 gave to Mrs Mulso : She has a great many Thanks in Store for 

 Harry for suffering a Sopping with so much Patience to escort 

 her to Alton. 



The Bishop & all my Friends are arrived in Town ; a Piece of 

 Intelligence that You may perhaps be glad to know, as perhaps 

 Harry's Business may carry Him to ye Bishop. 



Nothing at present remains but our hearty wishes for a 

 good & pleasant Journey & a safe meeting at Sunbury. Our 

 Compliments attend the Yalden Family and Mr Etty's. 



I am, Dear Gil, Afftely Your's, 



J. M. 



Letter 89. 

 To the Revd Mr White, 



at Mr. White's, in Thames Street, London. Sunbury 



Dear Gil : Dec : 6, 1769. 



I have great events to acquaint You wth if You are as yet 

 ignorant of them. Mrs Mulso was brought to Bed on Saturday 

 Morn at Nine o' Clock of a Boy ; She & ye Child are very well ; 

 & I have delayed giving this Information to You & Miss White, 

 who was so obliging as to desire to be informed of it, that I 

 might add at the same Time what I hoped would be ye Case, & 

 what, I thank God, is so, that her Breast is very well, & She has 

 had no Inconvenience from it at all. 



As I told More Harry when he was here, that tho' he bad a 

 new Living, yet I had an Ivory Bilboquette, so now I must tell 

 You that I have the Promise of a new Living too ; but it will 

 carry me far from my Friends ; tho' I hope not from their affec- 

 tions, for That would be a poor Exchange. You must look into 

 ye west Riding of Yorkshire near Wakefield for Thornhill, a 

 Living of Sr George Saville's & called £400 pr an : but loaded 

 wth Chapells, & I am afraid not so much in Income, yet certainly 

 a great. One ; £40 in ye King's Books. 



Yet, my dear Gil, my Spirits are quailed ; so weakly consti- 

 tuted are my Nerves ; the Distance from my Friends, the 

 Roughness of ye North, the Delicacy of my Wife & Self, & ye 

 Infancy of my Children, & the Age of my Father-in-Law — But all 

 these still, my dear & worthy Friend, are under ye Hand of God, 

 & I am thankfuU for his Bounty — Plenty He has given & He 

 must give me Peace ; & in Him alone I trust for it, & not in ye 

 Goods of this world. 



But You, my dear Gil, who are an CEconomist, will give 

 an immediate Loose to Joy for me on this Occasion, — and will 



