226 A HISTORY OF LONGRIDGE. [Chap. 10. 



the patron of the living, relative to the appointment of Mr. Saul's 

 successor. So interesting are Mr. Shuttleworth's replies that I have 

 thought it desirable to print them verbatim. 



There is no date on the letters, but probably they were written early 

 in 1812. Several portions are quite illegible. 



The first letter is as follows : — " Allow me to say that nothing in my 

 estimation can exceed the candour and liberality exhibited in your late 

 several notes with which I have been favoured. As to the interest 

 implied or the right of . . . on, . . . that can scarcely be supposed 

 to concern one who is arrived at the age of labor and sorrow, but 

 chiefly on behalf of the right of a another circum- 

 stance I may now subjoin which would not have occasioned a remark, 

 but accidentally — that a candidate for a Benefice may (to . . the point) 

 undertake the teaching of a School. This office I never intended to 

 annex as a condition, as I would do to others as they should to myself, 

 but I mean that if possible, without an obhque reflection on a Mr. 

 W[ilkinso]n or any particular candidate, that, to obtain the appoint- 

 ment to a Benefice, he may promise to turn Pedagogue, and afterwards 

 it is very easy to bring forward his reasons for declining. To be the 



more particular Mr. Harrison, C. of Goosnargh — in that 



instance — I only wished to offer the cure to a resident Minister, the 

 late . . . Mr. Cowper having been exempt as a pluralist and C. of 

 Balderstone. But as I meant at that time to compliment our then 

 Diocesan (now of St. Asaph) with the nomination ex ... . my 

 intention as to a resident Minister, at the same time having said that 

 the inhabitants would like him no less for teaching a School. The 



Bishop told me that he could reccomend one (said Mr. H n), who 



would both reside and teach a School. Whether Mr. H n asked 



for Cleaver's Translation or not is best known to himself, but he has 

 long since left Goosnargh and resides and teaches School in Preston. 

 Moreover, a Mr. Wilson, C. of Chipping, called on me in the name of 

 Mr. Cross, as a candidate for W.O. adding (after I had given my 

 opinion of the scheme of teaching), that he would not himself 

 promise to continue on that office. My answer was a fortiori, that at 

 the present moment it was on the choice of another person, though I 

 have not much reason to think that it will be accepted. 



