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For twenty years Dr Pyle enjoyed the Cathedral 

 stall, which, he says, is " called a very charming thing, 

 and so it is," dividing his time between his beloved 

 residence, his duties as Archdeacon in Yorkshire, and 

 his attendance as Chaplain at Court. It was found at 

 his death, as the Wainscot Book shows, that he had 

 made over to the Chapter the many improvements to 

 his residence that he had carried out, declining to receive 

 for the same any " wainscot-money." He also left 

 the bulk of his fortune, nearly 10,000, in charity 

 bequeathing it to Bishop Morley's College for the 

 distressed widows of clergymen on the north side of 

 the Cathedral. Another member of the same set, also 

 appointed by Bishop Hoadly, was Dr Ayscough, " a 

 Winchester man born and bred in the College there," 

 who eventually became Dean of Bristol. He occupied 

 the residence next to Dr Pyle's, which was pulled down 

 in the last century. But the ablest man among the 

 Winchester Latitudinarians was probably Dr Thomas 

 Balguy, also Archdeacon of Winchester, who owed all 

 his preferments, he tells us, to " the favour and friend- 

 ship of good Bishop Hoadly." Pyle speaks of him as a 

 very agreeable and " special clever man." He occupied 

 the residence, as we learn from the Wainscot Book, with 

 the steep gables and stone mullions, now known as 

 No. 9, which is probably one of the most ancient houses 

 in the Close. For many years he had been lecturer on 

 moral philosophy at Cambridge, and was an author of 

 some distinction. On the death of Warburton he was 

 offered the See of Gloucester, but declined it on the 

 ground of feeble health and failing eyesight. He lived, 

 however, for many years afterwards, dying at length in 

 his prebendal house, when he was buried in the Cathedral, 



