230 CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE REV. R. CHURTON. 



LETTER XXVI. 



FROM MR. CHURTON TO GILBERT WHITE. 



Braseu-Nose, Mar. 15, 179:'. 



Dear Sir, 

 Dr. Loveday has robbed me of the pleasure of making you 

 a present of a book lately published here, to which we are 

 jointly in different ways contributors. I hope you will have 

 received your copy from Fleet Street, attended with one from 

 Dr. Chandler, before this reaches you. And now let me can- 

 vass you for the author of the Village Curate. Mount your 

 steed — not immediately though, but next Michaelmas — and 

 assist in putting the Professorship of Poetry in hands worthy 

 to be employed where Lowth and Warton have appeared be- 

 fore. At the same time, please to inform Dr. Chandler thai 

 he owes me a letter, and that he must get Dr. Bingham and 

 every vote he can for a gentleman of his own college. The 

 Trinity gentlemen, Mr. Clarke and Kett, have each secured 

 some votes in our college and elsewhere by starting so early ; 

 but we are at least two to one in Br .-Nose friends to Mr. 

 Hurdis (or his merits rather, for we were not acquainted with 

 him), and several active in his cause. 



I am very glad you are so well pleased with your neice. 

 Mr. Armetriding is just married to a Lancashire lady, about 

 the size of her you mention ; but there is not one of our 

 Northamptonshire rectors married, nor, I fear, going to be. 

 The house at Middleton has begun, or is about to begin, to 

 rise, after having stood still during the winter. 



Best respects to all friends. 



I am ever, with truest esteem, dear Sir, 



Your most obliged servant, 



R. CHURTON. 



