LETTER CXXX 213 



So that I do not despair, on that Head, of seeing you ; tho' you 

 seem to think that ye same Cause will be a perpetual Embargo. 

 However we are much obliged to you for giving so large a 

 Latitude of Choice in Point of Time : You cannot want to 

 receive Us at your sweet Place more than I do to have the 

 Beauties & Improvements of it pointed out to me by You. 



Our next Objects of Visitors here are Mr Burrows, & the 

 Bishop of Winchester ; when those Visits are over we shall have 

 closed the Poll for this Summer ; unless you deign to honour 

 those, who are so obdurate & mortifying to themselves as to 

 decline your Invitations. 



You will be sorry to hear that I have almost lost my Horse- 

 manship ; I was made so ill by a Eide of 3 Miles out, that I am 

 tamed 'till the sultry weather is over. I hope after that to 

 recover it again. My Brother Tom was witness of my Imbecillity, 

 & tho' he would have been glad of my Company & he knew I 

 longed to be his Escort in his Eides, he never asked me any 

 more. I think I saw your little walking nag at Farnham & 

 your Man was on your Winton Galloway ; Your Nag was very 

 pretty as well as usefull. 



Bon Voyage to Mr Banks ! What a Fund of Entertainment 

 will he have laid in for you, if he lives to come back ! The 

 Bishop made a successfull Trip to ye Isle of Wight & came back 

 very well after having confirmed above 4000 People. 



I do not know where this will find you ; if wth any of your 

 family, we beg our alfte Comps. to them. Accept the Loves 

 & best wishes of all here, & beleive me ever, 



Dear Gil, Your Friend & Affte humble Servt 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 130. 



To the Eeverend Mr White, Witney. 



at Selborne near Alton, Hants. Nov. 19, 1768. 



Dear Gil : 



I have heard of your perfidious Behaviour, before your 

 Letter informed me of your having been at Oxford. If it had 

 been a better Time of ye Year I should have been more enraged 

 at it, & thought it a Eetort for our being so near Selborne as 

 Farnham without seeing You there. I hope the Turnpike, which 

 you are now so angry about, will reconcile You to itself when 

 You travell over it at your Ease in your way to Us. As to our 

 Excursions to London or elsewhere, we must have got our family 

 on another footing than it now is before We can leave it : It 

 ties us by the Leg as much as a Curacy. You are very kind in 

 enquiring after the Branches of it. I have all my Children at 

 Home. Jack goes daily to School at the next Door. We have 



