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Mouth ; for he had not only to preach, but to answer Arch- 

 Deacon Ibbotson extempore, who proposed a Paragraph for the 

 Address ; and as it contradicted what ye Dn had advanced in 

 his Sermon, he replyed, & the A : Deacon retracted & proposed 

 alteration. The ArchBp spoke long & well; with Dignity & 

 Judgement ; & the Prolocutor Dr Mill Dean of Exeter acquitted 

 himself very handsomely. So, if it is said that the Convocation 

 does Nothing, it cannot now be objected that it says Nothing. 



Are You not now glad that You did not travell or antemigrate 

 to Lancashire ? What a Season would You have had to interrupt 

 every natural Enquiry ? How unjust to ye poor Country ? I am 

 glad for the Honour of our northerly Eegions that You did not 

 go : but I hope You will find a better Time. 



I have looked into a Vol : or two of Philos : 1 Transactions, 

 (our Library Books,) & have found honourable Mention of You 

 from Mr Barrington. Have your farthur observations* been 

 redde (as they print ye word read) & well- accepted by the 

 Society ? I should think they must ; for You are an accurate 

 Man. But that it is a Eule wth them, not to commend or dis- 

 commend ; but to give as it is given to them, & leave it to the 

 Use & Judgement of the Public. 



I hope You keep your Health ; & that your good Neighbours 

 do ye same, in this very unequal weather ; now & then 

 extreamly cold, now & then unseasonably hot. I hear ye Small 

 Pox is in the Town in spite of last Year's Clearage by Inocula- 

 tion, & that it is a confluent Kind, & fatal. But more is said 

 than is true on such Subjects : thank God, we have escaped ye 

 Fear. 



I have had a Correspondence this Winter wth your neighbour 

 the Chancellor. What a lively Mind imprison'd in a crazy Body ! 



Farewell : many & happy Years attend You & your's is ye 

 general wish of my family & of, 



Dear Gil, Yours afftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 161. 

 The Eeverend Mr White, Winchester. 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. Apl 8, '75. 



Dear Gil : 



Mr Gregory, who is now with me, interests himself in 

 your ensuing Election for a Eelation by Marriage, One who has 

 appeared before at Oriell, it is a Mr Charles Wallington Commr 

 of Christ Church, He was born at Dursley. He has desired me 



* ' Of the House-Swallow, Swift and Sand-Martin. By the Rev. Gilbert 

 White, in Three Letters to the Hon. Daines Barrington.' These were read 

 to the R .S. on 16 March, 1775. 



