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selves ; but I have got no answer to my application ; what I shall 

 have I do not know. I have not been able to urge it up in Person, 

 for I have been much confined at home wth the Eheumatism in 

 my face & Jaws, very painfull & very obstinate, which I have 

 been obliged to encounter with all the artillery of Mr Rogers ye 

 x\pothecary of Droxford, who being nearer at hand has crept into 

 my family in a silent way in the place of Mr Hales, of whom 

 however I have ye highest opinion. I hear that ye Match 

 between young Mr Hales & Miss Barfoot, which was just agreed, 

 is now totally broken oif. I am sorry to hear of your Brother 

 Thomas's having been so ill, but I hope ye Gout will cure him. 

 1 fancy Mr Sogers has a Mind to treat me with a Fit of it, for 

 as a part of his Eegimen, he obliges me to plunge my feet in 

 warm water every night before I go to bed. I have just left off 

 my hot Stoops of Camomile & Laudanum, which were laid to 

 my face successively. I have had Pill, Bolus & Potion. I am 

 certainly better, but I am not well, & tremble at the Thoughts of 

 strict Residence at Winchester, to which place I move off on 

 Thursday next Oct : 30th. But I must expect Pain & Aches ; 

 am I not a Grandfather? Mrs John Mulso made me so to a Girl 

 on Octr 12th. My Wife went over to assist on the Occasion, & 

 there She has been ever since, & will not rejoin Us here, but at 

 Winchester. My Daughter was not well after her Lying in at 

 first, but She is now in a right way, & has dined in her Dining 

 Room which is upstairs. The Child of Course is a Wit & a 

 Beauty. My Jenny does the Honours of my house here very 

 well, but alass ! she has been more employ'd as a Nurse than a 

 Hostess, for my Hester is but poorly wth a low Feaver ; So that 

 We have been two very unentertaining Creatures. 



I beleive 1 beg'd of You to desire yr Bror Benjamin to secure 

 me one of the first Impressions of your Book which I hope You 

 have done. I made it my Request that my Brother Mulso would 

 call on Mr White for the same Purpose, but I do not know that 

 he has done it, he has been confined lately wth an Accident in 

 his Knee in riding agst a Cart Wheel in the Street. My Brother 

 Mulso will be responsible to Mr White for the Purchase. I 

 beleive it ought not to be bound soon after it's printing ; but if 

 there is no Chance of Harm from it, I wish him to get it done 

 all together properly, as we have lost our only good Bookbinder 

 at Winton. He lives now at Salisbury. I subscribed my 5 

 Guineas to ye Cathedrall ; it is the Bp of Salisbury's Hobby 

 Horse. It was but a small Sum, but I call'd in the advice of 

 the Dean & others, & they thought I should not overdo the rest 

 of the junior Stalls. 



We have here a fine latter Season at present, but my nasty 

 Jaws will not let me enjoy it. 



I am glad Mrs J. White is well, & much obliged for her good 



