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: I hope You & Mrs J. White hold well in Health, & that the 

 Affairs of FiiBeld will be put in a good Train. 



I am, Dear Gil, Your's afftely, 



J. Mulso. 

 My Wife & family join in all due Gomps. & good wishes 

 of many happy Years &c. 



Letter 228. 



Eev. Mr White, Winchester, 



Selborne near Alton, Hants. + at Alton. Aug: 16, 1789. 



Dear Gil : 



You will wonder at receiving a Letter from me from this 

 place at this time of the Year ; and indeed I have refrained from 

 writing to You for some weeks past in hopes of letting You know 

 our Change of Situation & our being returned to our pleasant 

 Summer Eesidence at Meonstoke. But it has so pleased God 

 that the Health both of myself and Mrs Mulso has been so bad, 

 that we could not get away. I have therefore given up all 

 Thoughts of removing for this Year, very much to my Sorrow ; 

 & having apologized to my Bishop & to my Parishioners for 

 my Insuf&ciences & Non Attendance, am destined to abide by 

 a very strict Eesidence in my old Prebendal Mansion. 



— ego laudo ruris amoeni 

 Rivos, et musco circumlita saxa, nemusque 



but I must not enjoy them. Just at present my Men & Horses 

 are employed in my farming Way ; & they have got in my Hay, 

 in very good quality tho' in not great quantity. But I have for 

 some time had an Embargo put on the Use of my Carriage by 

 my Driver, John Knight's having dislocated his arm & horribly 

 bruised his Shoulder by being thrown, in Consequence of his 

 horse's falling, against the Edge of ye Pavement in our Streets. 

 He is returned to a great deal of Use of his Arm, but he cannot 

 lift it up but very little above a horizontal Position ; Mr Lyford 

 says it must come to by Degrees. 



After a dangerous State thro' an Inflammation in my Bowells, 

 I subside in frequent Pains & a great weakness there, & in Fre- 

 quent Eeturns of the Gravell. As to my Wife, She had a low 

 Feaver, of which She has never recovered entirely, but is subject 

 to Loss of Appetite, Sicknesses, bodily Pains, thorough Weakness 

 & great Dejections of Spirit. — Par nobile ! — 



Winchester has at least the Benefits of a good Neighbour- 

 hood ; & of Course of constant Gossip & the Lie of the Day. We 

 prick up our Ears after Events at home & abroad : we hear of 

 honest Englishmen wanting Fanatical Memorandums of ye 



