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& as to Principles, we were, thank God, of a different way of 

 thinking. So that tho' I should be glad to bind any worthy Man 

 to me by a good Office (& Such I take Mr Wood to be) yet as I 

 do not know the Young Man at all, I must leave it to You to 

 judge how far I ought to urge your Kindness to me on this 

 Occasion. He referrs me for the Merit of his Son to ye Judge- 

 ment of the Society : & there you can be determined better than 

 Myself. It is a sincere Grief to me, that my perpetual Desire of 

 serving You, & my Efforts towards it, have had so little Success 

 as to give me no Claim to ask Favours of this Nature of You : 

 but I should be glad to hear that the present Canvass falls in 

 wth your own Inclination. If it does, let me hear of it, that I 

 may at least tell Mr Wood that what Interest I have in You has 

 been exercised for him. 



We have been All bad here, wth Eheumatism & Aguish 

 Complaints, but are better. Mrs Chapone has not left us. 



I hear Nothing of West Meon, but that I am not to have it. 

 I do not ash, but I might be prevailed on to take it. You are 

 morally sure that I have not the Disposal of any of the Bishop's 

 Preferments. 



I hope you & all friends are well. I had thoughts of seeing 

 You agam at the Election. Our joint good wishes attend you. 

 I am ever, Dear Gil, Afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 144. 



To the Kevd Mr White, Winchester, 



at Selborne near Alton, Hants. May 6, 1772. 



Dear Gil : 



I do not know whether you are acquainted wth my having 

 lately had some Communication by Letter wth your Nephew 

 Gibr. Jack. It was to recommend an Officer's Lady to ye 

 Favour & acquaintance of Mrs White at Gibraltar : I thought 

 it would introduce her well to carry a Lr from her Son, so I 

 begd Jack to write One, & wth it sent One from Myself to your 

 Brother : It was a Niece of Mrs Pool's of Winton, a Mrs Agnew. 

 I fancy ye poor Lady cannot now avail herself of this Eecom- 

 mendation, for you fill me wth very joyous news in telling me of 

 the Goodness of ye Arch-Bishop to Him. The Living of Black- 

 bourne belong'd to Mr Woollen, who was my Neighbour at 

 Emley in Yorkshire, He was an Oriel Man. I always under- 

 stood that Blackbourne was a very good Living but overcharged 

 wth Duty, & therefore eaten up wth Curates. However it must 

 have been poor if it had not been worth £200 clear ; for as a 

 Keward to ye Chaplain of an Ahbishop it ought to have clear'd 

 That, & he had it of Dr Potter in that Character. Mr Woollen 



