LETTER CXVIII. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Weftminster, Jan. 29, 1714-15 MY HONOURED LORD, A LMOST ever fince I received your Lordship's obliging letter, I have been afflicted with the gout, which confines me ftill; but I am got well enough to acknowledge your Lordship's favour, and to return my thanks for it, as I do very heartily. However, I have not done troubling your Lordship with my requests. A Clergyman, whose name is Lloyd*, and whom I know to be a worthy good man, has a prefentation to a living in your Lordship's diocefe, the name of which, I think, is Chawton +, and the place about eight or ten miles from Farnham. He tells me your Lordship has left no commission for inftitution behind you; that it is to the utmost degree inconvenient to him to attend your *The father, poffibly, of Dr. Pierson Lloyd: who was afterwards for near fifty years one of the Masters of Westminster School, and died, at an advanced age, Oct. 5, 1781. A rectory in Hants. Lord Lordship at Trelawny; and that he fears the fix months may run out before your Lordfhip's return. He humbly hopes, that your Lordship will take no advantage of the lapfe; and, I must confefs, I thought his request fo reasonable, that I promifed him to convey it to your Lordship, and to add mine to it, if there was any occafion for fuch an addition towards making it effectual. I wish your Lordship and your family health, and all manner of happiness; and am your Lordship's ever faithful and most obedient fervant, FR. KOFFEN LETTER CXIX. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Weftminster, Sunday, Feb. 13, 1714-5 MY HONOURED LORD, COMMITTED a mistake in my laft, and made but half my request to your Lordship, in behalf of the good man who will have the honour of delivering this letter to to your Lordship at Winchester. He wants hot only leave from your Lordship to defer his inftitution for a while, but your Lordfhip's letter alfo, intimating to the Archbishop your confent to his holding Chawton in your Lordship's diocefe, together with another living he has, within three and twenty miles of it, in Berkshire, of about an hundred pounds a year; Kidbury is the name of it. Mr. Lloyd is really a pious and deferving man, and one whofe character will not difgrace your Lordship, if you please to fignify to the Archbishop your confent in his behalf; which I earnestly beg of your LordThip to do; and by that means to compleat the favour, which your Lordship intends me in this whole matter. He has a wife and many children; and both thefe livings will yield but a bare comfortable fupport to his numerous family. 1 communicated to Dr. Freind that part of your Lordship's letter which related to him; who will take the fame opportunity that I do of returning his thanks to your Lordship, and of adding his requeft to mine, in be half half of Mr. Lloyd, being equally with me concerned for his fuccefs. The General and Hele are now with me, and fend their duty to your Lordship. I am, with all respect and gratitude, your Lordship's ever faithful and moft obedient fervant, FR. ROFFEN. I am still confined to my chamber. LETTER CXX. To Bp. TRELAWNY. Thursday morning, May 3, 1716. I MY LORD, AM really fo much indifpofed by a long course of eating and drinking, that I am not able to wait upon your Lordship to-day; but will take another time of doing it, when I am a little relieved from my present uneafinefs. Before I return to Bromley, I will be fure to find your Lordship out at Chelsea, and return my own thanks, and the thanks of all thofe that love the fchool, for the honour your Lordship did us on Tuesday. 3 Your Lordship continues to pursue me with obligations, in whatever poft I am. None of them shall be ever forgot by him that is, with great respect and gratitude, your Lordship's ever faithful and most obedient humble fervant, FR. ROFFEN. LETTER CXXI. To Bp. TRELAWN Y. MY HONOURED LORD, Bromley, Sept. 6, 171 HOPE this will meet you returned in health to Winchester; and heartily thank your Lordship for the continuance of your goodness to that unfortunate man; who has offered 700l. to compound the matter, and it has been rejected with fcorn. So he thinks of nothing now but pursuing the expedient your Lordship firft ftarted to him, and loading the living with his debts, in hopes that matters may be fo ordered, that he may have bread from his prebend, without their being able to touch it, as Dr. Finch*, the Warden * Hon. Leopold William Finch, a younger fon of Heneage Earl of Winchclfea, was born at Con ftantinople |