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any reference to Him; but to the impartiality that he 

 had advised him to observe, as the best method of serving 

 the College: upon which principle, if the Provost observes 

 it, your Brother may be successful." 



In obtaining a Fellowship, no doubt, was the 

 writer's meaning. 



In April, 1757, Gilbert White visited Oxford as 

 usual, and a little later (on May 12th, 1757) his 

 constant correspondent writes : — 



" Curate or not curate, I find you will travel, and a rest- 

 less animal you still will be till I find you squatted down in 

 Fat-goose living." 



Though he does not seem to have displayed any 

 very great anxiety for a living at any time, his 

 friend recurs to the subject on July 14th, 1757 — 



" I looked, my dear friend, to have you nearer the Town 

 before now, and besieging the Portals of the Lord Keeper ; 

 I have great expectations from that quarter for you, and his 

 preferment has given me particular pleasure from knowing 

 him to be a near acquaintance and friend to you and yours. 

 Sure there are more ways than one of vacating a Fellow- 

 ship!" 



From September 4th to October 23rd, 1757, 

 Gilbert White acted as Curate of Dene and Newton 

 in the place of his cousin, Basil Cane, who was in 

 Wales. The living of Moreton Pinkney became 

 definitely vacant in October, 1757, when its in- 

 cumbent, Mr. Frewen, was presented by the college 

 to the living of S. Mary's, Oxford. On October 

 17th the Provost's memorandum-book contains a 



