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own power, without a necessity of attending and soliciting 

 anybody, you are in an enviable situation by the greatest 

 part of mankind. By the last paragraph in your paper we 

 have hopes of availing ourselves of your freedom some time 

 this year, when your affairs are put into traia" 



Later, on July 28th, 1763, Mulso continues upon 

 the matter of the living. Keferring to his uncle, the 

 Bishop, who had just paid him a visit at his York- 

 shire living, Thornhill, he remarks — 



"Among other subjects of discourse, you was one. I 

 showed my Lord your last letter, from which I imagine 

 that you did not purpose any other good and present effect 

 should arise, than a general disposition to serve you at some 

 future happy opportunity. The Bishop, who is on all sides 

 beset, did not chuse to enter into any sort of promise of 

 this kind ; but, as I had before returned him my particular 

 thanks, as well as yours, for his interposition with my 



Ld C ,* and as I stood for you, as far as I thought would 



be serviceable to you, I cannot think you will have the 

 worse chance with him for this visit. 



" I found him a little inclined to blame you for not having 



managed your cards with L^ C better. But tho' he 



blamed you to me, he defended you to him. As I could not but 

 express a great surprise at your not being better in that 

 Person's good graces, (not having ever suspected it), I asked 

 my Lord if he knew the cause : he said very well ; it was 

 given him by himself the first time he spoke to Him about 

 you. You did not vote for the Bishop of Durham at Oxford, f 



* Lord Chancellor Henley, afterwards Earl of Northington, was the friend 

 and patron of Charles White, whom his family had presented to the livings 

 of Swarraton and Bradley, Hants, which were in their private patronage. 



t There was a contest for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford 

 on May 4th, 1750, between the Earl of Westmoreland and Richard Trevor, 

 Bishop of Durham, who had been a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. The 

 former was elected by 321 to 200 votes. 



