LETTER CXCII 297 



expensive Jobbs. " All these Things are against me." So we 

 must weigh the Bad wth the Good. 



We have pass'd but a dull Time. Mrs Mulso has had so 

 trying a Eheumatism or Gout, that it put out her Eyes, & 

 crippled all her Limbs. She is pretty well again, but still 

 swelled, & weak, & unable to walk. We cannot go into ye 

 Country 'till ye Beginning of July, as I must finish my Chapter 

 Business as Vice-Dean, & must help to enthrone Dr North. 



Pray give me an Account of your family & their Proceedings, 

 & how Jack Gib: goes on : I dare say, well ; & hope he will be 

 a Comfort to his Mother.* I am just upon changing my Curate 

 at M. Stoke, Gregory being about settling at his own Rectory of 

 Uley in Gloucestershire : I have agreed wth a Mr Noell, a Son, 

 or Nephew, or some Relation to Dr Noell of St Mary's Hall. 

 Do You know of a worthy good Divine, that wants a Curacy 

 of £40 pr an. with an old-fashioned House to inhabit & a little 

 tiney Bit of Ground wth it ; who has family enough to keep it 

 warm ? I have a Suspicion that I shall have such a Thing soon 

 in hand : but I do not know. I hear it by side Winds, & not 

 from the proper Point. If You have such a Man, keep him in 

 your Eye. 



You have robb'd ye good old Bishop of a Pleasure by ye 

 deferring the Publication of your Book. Are You cowardly, or 

 are You over nice & curious ? Make Hast, my dear old Friend, 

 or You may rob the Nephew too. Am I not threescore in Novr 

 next ? Do You save it up to my Chair-Days ? The Oppression 

 at my Stomach often makes me unable to walk; perhaps You 

 mean to assist my Ideas when I cannot expatiate to enlarge my 

 Observations. I do not know that I could conquer Selbourne 

 Hanger now. All our best wishes attend You. I am ever. 

 My dear Gil, Your obliged & affte 



J. Mulso. 

 My Nephew & Son William are expected from Quebec this 

 Autumn. 



Letter 192. 

 Revd Mr White Meonstoke. 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. + at Alton. Sepr 16, 1781. 



Dear Gil : 



Your Letter reached me on Fryday Night, & gave Us the 

 Hope of seeing You, wth my Lord John of Lancaster,t some 

 Time this Week, for as I have dated my Letter on the 16th (the 



* About this time Mrs. John White came to reside with her brother-in- 

 law at Selborne, for whom she kept house during the rest of his life. 



+ John, son of John White, Vicar of Blackburn. 



