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two seem only to have been pleasant. One little 

 cloud arose, however, as will appear later on, when 

 Pennant seemed to be reluctant to part with certain 

 drawings of some of John White's natural history 

 specimens, intended to illustrate the latter's 'Fauna 

 Calpensis.' 



On July 21st, 1767, Mulso exhorted his friend to 

 leave his Tihurni lucum, and deign to visit him at 

 Witney. He wrote again on October 13th, with the 

 information that Mr. Frewen, the Kector of Cromhall, 

 was dead. 



" This you will have known I presume by a speedier 

 intelligence. But it is not so much the thing itself, as the 

 inferences, that affect me. You are said to be likely to take 

 his living. If you do, two or three things will happen. You 

 will come soon to Oxford, tho' you are not pressed in time. 

 You will keep a curate on that living, and therefore not be 

 so tied by the leg, as you now are by your serving a curacy 

 yourself; a circumstance very hateful to a man whose in- 

 quisitive genius makes him love to change the scene often 

 and search for curiosities in various regions. This Living is 

 in Gloucestershire, as I understand : I lye in the very road, 

 so that upon the whole, I conclude from these inferences, 

 I may see you soon, and I may see you often. I shall have 

 you routed out of that Eecess of Selbourne, where your 

 affections are too much engrossed for yourself, and your 

 friends at a distance. 



" I am afraid that this is not the best living of the College ; 

 but nevertheless I think I collected by our last confabula- 

 tion, that you was inclined to secure to yourself the first 

 thing that fell, and get rid of your Fellowship before your 

 Fellowship got rid of you." 



