LETTER XXXIX. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Chelsea, Sept. 18, 1703. I MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP, EXPECTED yesterday to have heard from Exeter, in anfwer to the letter of which I fent your Lordship a copy, and to which I might have received an answer on Wednesday laft, if the perfon to whom I wrote had thought proper to return any. But I fuppofe he hath wrote, and waits for inftructions, before he will venture to fay any thing. The Bishop elect returns hither in two or three days from Canterbury, and will be confecrated the beginning of October. The Irish Convocation is ftill left in the lurch; for I have received accounts from Ireland, which fay, that the Ministry here. are pofitive, that the claufes in the Parliament writs, though iffued, will not qualify the Clergy to fit and act, because the provincial writs are withheld. The Bishops there feem to be very uneafy on this head, and refolve to petition for those writs. They have had answer from the Government there, that they they cannot relieve them in that matter, without exprefs orders from England. Mr. St. Evremond died renouncing the Christian religion +. Yet the Church of Westminster thought fit, in honour to his memory, to give his body room in the Abbey, and to allow him to be buried there gratis, as far as the Chapter were concerned, though he left eight hundred pounds fterling behind him ‡; which is thought every way an unaccountable piece of management. Sartré || buried him roundly, and hoped that his brother would rife to life eternal. Dr. Birch § proffered to be He died Sept. 9, 1703, aged ninety years, five months, and twenty days. 66 Amongst other legacies, he gave 201. " to the poor French refugees," and 201. " to the poor "Roman-catholics, or of any other religion." His MSS. to the Earl of Galway, his executor. He had ordered by his will that he should be buried withought pomp; which was complied with. A Prebendary of Weftminfter. He married a fifter of Addison, "a fort of wit," fays Swift, very like her brother." Mr. Sartré died Sept. 30, 1713. His widow (afterwards married to Daniel Combe, efq.) died March 2, 1750; and left her estate, after fome legacies were paid, for the erection of a monument in Westminster abbey to her brother's memory. There is a tablet in the cloysters there to the memory of "Mrs Addi"fon," probably the mother, "Sept. 30, 1715." § Another of the Prebendaries. See p. 100. I 4 at at the charge of the funeral, on the account of the old acquaintance between St. Evremond and his father Waller*; but, that proffer not being accepted, is refolved to have the honour of laying a marble stone upon his grave+. My Lord Duke of Buckingham's house ‡, which your Lordship faw rifing laft winter, is almost finished. He hath placed four several mottoes upon the four fides of it, which is fomewhat fingular; and, which is worse, they who pretend to judge of fuch things like none of them. On the front, “Sic fiti "lætantur Lares §." On the back front, "" Rus * See fome of his verses to Waller, in Nichols's "Select Collection," vol. I. p. 123; and "Verfes "written in his Effays," vol. V. p. 85. By Pitt, he is thus feverely characterized : "Old Evremond, renown'd for wit and dirt, Would change his living oftener than his shirt ; Roar with the rakes of ftate a month; and come To starve another in his hole at home". He was buried in the nave of the Church, near the cloyster. A buft is placed over the epitaph engraven on a white marble ftone affixed to the wall over against the place where he lies. Now the Queen's palace. See a poem, by Mr. Buckeredge, 1704, on the completion of this houfe, in the Select Collection," vol. V. p. 160. § This motto occafioned the following lines: "Happily plac'd thefe Lares are To feed on viftos and fresh air, Το "Rus in Urbe." On the fide next the road, 66 Spectator faftidiofus fibi moleftus." On the north fide, "Lentè incæpit, citò perfecit." I find by a letter from Mr. Young of Plymouth yesterday, that Canon Kendal's health is almost entirely established. I pray for the health and profperity of your Lordship and family; and am, my Lord, your ever dutiful and most faithful humble fervant, FR. ATTERBURY. I am like to have a great deal of trouble with the Nonconformift at Tavistock; for, instead of submitting, he hath demanded a copy of the articles; in order, as is fuppofed, to a prohibition, having advised with King at Exeter. But I intend, by the bleing of God, to go through with that matter, whatever the trouble and charge of it be. To dine with Humphry's Duke each day, It was alfo rhymed and paraphrafed by "Pay 66 your debts, and that fair is." LETTER XL. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Chelfea, Sept. 25, 1703 I MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP, HAVE received a letter at laft from Archdeacon Drew, where he tells me all is well. I trouble not your Lordship with a copy of it, because he tells me in it, that he hath written the fame thing to you. Matters in Ireland still go wrong; for, I fear, no Convocation hath met with the Parliament. It feems, the very terms upon which the Bishops obtained the claufes now restored to the Parliament writs were, that they would not use them, or pretend to fit by them. To affure the Government of this, they fent over the foljowing memorial: "Dublin, Aug. 10, 1703. "MAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACE, "Whereas your Grace hath been pleased to ac"quaint us, that her Majefty thinks it neceffary "to be further informed of all the forms relating "to a Convocation, before the refolve to have one "fum |