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LETTER XCVIII.

To Bp. TRELAWNY.

Feb. 26, 1707-8.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP,

EARNESTLY entreat your Lordship's interpofition in relation to the bill*, which is to be read a fecond time on Saturday. There are feveral in the House of

*The bill mentioned in the preceding letter. It was read a fecond time in a full House Feb. 28, 1707-8; and the motion for its commitment carried by 166 against 138. At the fame time an order was made for laying before the Houfe of Commons "the ftatutes of the feveral Cathedral

and Collegiate Churches, founded by King "Henry VIII. which have been usually received "and practifed in the government of the fame "refpectively, fince the late happy Reftoration "of King Charles II. and to the obfervance where" of the Deans and Prebendaries and other mem"bers of the faid churches, from the faid time, "ufed to be fworn at their inftallments or admif"fions;" and alfo "the charters, or copies of "the charters, of the foundation of the faid "churches."

Commons

Commons who will liften to your Lordship and the Major-general* in that particular: particularly, there is one, who hath declared himself to be in fufpence because he doth not know your Lordship's opinion; and, when he was told how you voted above, replied, “that that might be, and yet your Lordship

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might now have altered your mind; for the

Queen was more easy in that matter." The perfon I mean is Mr. Dolben +; who, I find, is refolved to determine himself by your opinion, and is pleafed to fay, "there will be

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eight or ten more that will go along with "him." I hope your Lordship will fignify your opinion to him, if you intend to have any farther dealings with him. If

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If you do not, my Lord, I recall my request, and do not afk your favour in that refpect. In refpect t other members I will hope for it, being your Lordship's most faithful and most obedient humble fervant, FR. ATTERBURY.

I have inclofed Dr. Todd's cafe, relating to the proceedings of the Bishop below. "

Trelawny, the Bishop's brother.

John Dolben, efq. M. P. for Lefkard. Hugh Todd, D. D. born at Blencow in Cumberland, became a poor fcholar of Queen's college, Oxford, in 1672, afterwards a poor ferving

child,

LETTER XCIX,

To Bp. TRELAWNY.

Windfor, October, 1709.

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MY LORD,

HAVE sent to Mr. Churchill, and he fays that he shall be here as long as the Queen ftays, and go the day that she

goes.

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child, and when B. A. taberdar of that houfe. He was elected fellow of Univerfity college, Dec. 23, 1678; and proceeding M. A. July 2, 1679, became chaplain to Dr. Smith, Bp. of Carlifle; one of the four Canon refidentiaries of Carlifle in 1685; and the fame year obtained the vicarage of Stanwix. He accumulated the degrees of B. and D. D. Dec. 12, 1692.

By a petition prefented to the House of Commons by Dr. Todd, requesting to be heard by counsel before the bill abovementioned should pafs, it appears that "the Bishop of Carlisle [Dr.

Nicolfon] had cited the Dean and Chapter be

fore him in his vifitation, held at Carlisle in Sep*tember 1707, and exhibited articles of enquiry "against them; and the petitioner appeared, and "entered his protest against the Bishop's power, 66 being informed, the right of local vifitor was

"in

We have no apprehenfion here that that will be till November. Mr. Robinson, the

" in the Crown; but the faid Bishop, in an illegal "manner, fufpended the Petitioner ab officio et "beneficio, and afterwards excommunicated him.” The apprehenfions of Dr. Todd were, that, if the bill fhould pafs, it would " fubject him to farther enquiries and arbitrary cenfures of the Bishop "in his vifitations." The bill paffed the Commons, with fome amendments, March 17, and received the royal affent March 20, 1707-8.

His publications are," The defcription of Sweden, 1680," folio; "An account of a Salt-spring "and another medicinal fpring on the banks of "the River Weare, or Ware, in the Bishoprick "of Durham, 1684," Phil. Tranf. N° 163. and "The life of Phocion, 1684." He left alfo in MS. "Notitia Ecclefie Cathedralis Carliolenfis: una "cum Catalogo Priorum, dum Conventualis erat, " & Decanorum & Canonicorum quum Collegiata. "Notitia Prioratus de Wedderhall; cum Cata

logo omnium Benefactorum qui ad ambas has "facras Ædes ftruendas, dotandas, & ornandas, "pecuniam, terras & ornamenta, vel aliqua alia "beneficia, piè & munificè contulerunt." Thefe two were written in 1688, and dedicated by the author to the Dean and Chapter of Carlifle. He left alfo in MS. "A Hiftory of the Diocese of Carlisle, "containing an account of the Parishes, Abbeys, "Nunneries, Churches, Monuments, Epitaphs, "Coats of Arms, Founders, Benefactors, &c. with "a perfect catalogue of the Bishops, Priors, "Deans, Chancellors, Archdeacons, Prebenda"ries, and of all rectors and vicars of the feveral "Parishes in the faid Diocefe, 1689."

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new Dean * thought on Monday morning that he fhould not have gone abroad; but news came that evening, which altered meafures. He left Windfor in great hafte yefterday, and is gone for Holland this morning. The alteration in the Admiralty is not yet made+; and they do not now fay on what

* John Robinfon, D. D. (who had before been Minifter Plenipotentiary in Sweden) was then just appointed Dean of Windfor; where he was inftalled Dec. 3. 1709; and Nov. 19, 1710, was confecrated Bp. of Briftol. He had the honour of being named Lord Privy Seal Aug. 9. 1711; and in that year was appointed one of the Plenipotentiaries for fettling the treaty of Utrecht. He fet fail from Gravefend Dec. 27; and arriving at Utrecht Jan. 15, was the first minifter who appeared at the place of treaty. His Lordship difcharged his inftructions with great punctuality. On the th of July, 1712, he found it neceflary to go perfonally to the Hague, where in three days he brought the States General to his own terms, and returned to his ftation at Utrecht, where with the Earl of Strafford he figned the treaty of peace April 11, 1713. On the 7th of July following, the Queen, to thew her fenfe of his fervices, ordered a congé d'clire for his tranflation to the vacant fee of London; in which his Lordship, on his return to England, was confirmed March 13, 1713-143 and enjoyed it till his death in 1723. Mr. Tickell addreffed to his Lordfhip his fine poem " On the "Profpect of Peace."

At the time of writing this letter Thomas Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery was Lord

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