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We were all pleased to hear that your father was so 

 well recovered : when he gets about, and goes to town, I 

 wish he would send me down half an hundred of good 

 salt-fish. There were vast rains with much thunder and 

 hail on Monday last : so that I fear the water will encrease 

 in your Jiold, and that pumping will not avail long. The 

 springs at Faringdon rise very fast, but are not yet up to 

 the surface. 



Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot, Miss Wilmot, Miss Fletcher, and 

 Captain Bain were to have drank tea at the vicarage last 

 night ; but were prevented by the snow. 



On Friday, I hear, the poll-books, and all election imple- 

 ments are to be wafted over to the Isle of Wight, which 

 is the stronghold of the Baronet candidate. At present 

 Mr. Jervoise is ahead. This day Mr. Etty is to meet his 

 brother at Alresford. 



With due respects I conclude, 



y affect, friend, 



Gil. White. 



On March 8th, 1780, Mrs. Snooke died at 

 Eingmer, aged eighty-five. Her nephew attended 

 her funeral there on the 15th, and thence wrote: — 



To Benjamin White. Eingmer, Mar. 16, 1780. 



Dear Brother, — After returning my sincere thanks for 

 all the good offices that I have experienced from you and 

 yours so lately ; I think it proper to inform you, that 

 Mrs. Snooke by will has given me her Iping-farm,* charging 

 it with a legacy of £50 to you, and £50 more to be divided 

 equally among all your children ; and also with £50 a piece 

 to each of her nephews and nieces. These bequests she 

 has enjoined me to pay within twelve months after her 

 death. 



* Which had belonged to her father, the Vicar of Selborne. 



