tends men who write against their honour and confcience, The book is dedicated to the Queen, and profeffes to pursue the meafures chalked out in the laft claufe of her speech to the Parliament. Great endeavours are used to prevent the coming in of the bill against occafional conformity; and many members who were zealous for it laft feffion, are cooled in it, However, it will be brought in next week, and carried, though not with fo high an hand as formerly, My Lord Mohun * is likely to lofe all the eftate which came to him by my Lord Macclesfield. For, upon search, it is found, that the Charles Lord Mohun married Mifs Charlotte Maynwaring, a niece to Charles Gerard Earl of Macclesfield by his fifter Charlotte (afterwards lady Orbey). Lord Mohun fucceeded to the peerage young, on the death of his father; which, together with the marriage of his mother foon after, prevented that care of his education requifite in fo high a character, and drew him into fome wild fallies and exceffes in his youth, not confonant with his natural difpofition, He had a spirit fuitable to his birth and quality, and a genius formed for the greatest things, which, on more confummate experience, began to be confpicuous in him. He was twice tried by his peers for murder, but was both times aç again First, for that of Mountford the famous Comedian; and for that of Mr, Coote. quitted the pardon of King James, upon which that outlawry was reverfed, pardoned the crimes only that had been committed contra perfonam noftram, whereas my Lord Macclesfield was outlawed in Charles the Second's time. And, befides, the record of the reverfal of the outlawry doth no where appear. So the estate, it is thought, will be judged to be in the Queen. I am your Lordship's, in all duty and FR. ATTERBURY. obfervance, quitted; and in the latter cafe, with much honour and reputation, by the unanimous fuffrage of Parliament, having, with great modefty and elocution, made his innocence clear, and gained on the opinion of all present. Not fo in the former. He attended the Earl of Macclesfield in his embaffy to Hanover, and received marks of esteem from that court; and when the Elector was to be installed Knight of the Garter in 1703, he appointed Lord Mohun to act in the ceremony as his proxy. He was for fome time colonel of a regiment of foot; but this he afterwards quitted, and applied himself to the more ferious bufinefs of the nation, to which he fometimes fpoke in Parliament with fufficient commendation. On account of the above-mentioned eftate (4000l. a year), a law-fuit commenced between him and James Duke Hamilton (whose fecond lady, Elizabeth, was alfo a niece to the Earl of Macclesfield); which occafioning a quarrel, they unfortunately killed each other, in Hyde-park, Nov. 15, 1712. See a particular account of the whole tranfaction in Swift's Works, vol. XVII. 1775, P. 320. LET LETTER XLVI. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Chelfea, Nov. 23, 1793. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP, NEW EVER was there a greater ftruggle for any thing than there hath been, and is, to prevent the coming in of the bill against occafional conformity; which nevertheles will, I believe, be brought in to-morrow. Yefterday it could not be moved, because of the call of the House, where 380 members appeared. To-day was appointed for an adjourned debate, whether the Votes fhould be printed or not and, I fuppofe, it is carried for printing them*. There are fome agitations on foot for quieting matters in Convocation, and fetting the Clergy on work; but I reckon they will come to nothing. If fo, we fhall be foon difmiffed by his Grace, with a long adjournment; and the Clergy fent down to attend their cures, as having nothing to offer (and indeed they have as yet offered nothing) to the Bifhops. Dr. Lake hath been, and, as I heard yef terday, continues ftill very ill of the jaundice; *It was carried by a majority of thirty. Archdeacon of Exeter. See Letter LVIII. which which is a dangerous diftemper in so weak and emaciated a body as his, and in a perfon who is on the wrong fide of threefcore. Dr. Edisbury is gone down to Oxford, to choofe Sir W. Whitelock; and will return this day. It is thought that Sir William was out of all danger of lofing it. Mr. Burfcough* hath been taken a little lame fince his coming to town; fo that I have not feen him fo often as I fhould otherwise have done. We are to meet in Convocation again to-morrow, and I will fee if I can then 'put a little life into our affairs. I am your Lordship's ever dutiful and most faithful fervant, FR. ATTERBURY. Byrron Eaton + is dead; and, it is fuppofed, will be fucceeded in his Archdeaconry by Dr. Verney +. Mr. Stratford is Chaplain to the Speaker. LET Robert, then recently inftalled Archdeacon of Barum. Byrron Eaton, D. D. was collated to the Archdeaconry of Leicester, Sept. 5, 1683. He was fucceeded by John Rogers, M. A. Hon. George Verney, LL. D. one of the brethren of St. Catherine's, canon of Windfor 1701; inftalled Dean of that cathedral (and Re I LETTER XLVII. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Nov. 26, 1703. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP, T was not till this morning * that Mr. Bromley moved for leave to bring in the bill against occafional conformity. Mr. St. John feconded him; and Sir Christopher Mufgrave clofed the debate, which Mr. Bridges (my Lord Chandos's fon) opened on the other fide, and was followed by Smyth, Lyttelton, Stanhope, &c. It was a long and warm debate (the house not rising till five o'clock). Upon the divifion, 130 were against bringing in the bill, and 173 for it. Abundance of gentlemen who are for the bill were on this day abfent; and many of Regifter of the most noble order of the Garter) March 23, 1714-15. In 1711 he became Lord Willoughby de Broke; and died Dec. 26, 1728. Two fermons of this eminent Divine (who is not mentioned in Walpole's Catalogue of Noble Authors) are in print; one preached before the Queen in 1705, 4to; the other before the truftees of the charity-children at St. Sepulchre's, 1712, 4to. The prefent Lord Willoughby (fon of the Hon. John Verney, Mafter of the Rolls, his Lordhip's fecond fon) is his grandfon. After fitting all night on the 25th. thofe |