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lished , or are-likely to be so , unless they appear oh this occasion . Thinking it highly probable that a sight of them caftnot fail of gratifying many of his readers , he takes the liberty
without further ceremony to introduce them in this place ; not at all apprehensive that their contents will any way disparage the memory of either of the memorable personages by whom they were originally written .
" My Lord , t € You may remember that when by your kind aid the affair of M m
was concluded in my son ' s favour , I presented my humble ( and said it should be my last ) - petition to you , begging of you to be pleased to bestow on him a living that might consist with M m , and that you were so good as to promise to give him any
living you had not then engaged to dispose of otherways . —An incident has lately arisen of such a nature , as , I am sure will excuse my repeating the above-named request to your lordship , with the utmost earnestness . —My JLord , Mrs . Bilk , the D . of
N—ch ' s W « with her husband ' s good liking , and out of the esteem she has long had for me and mine , and especially for my son Ph— . has been pleased to propose him as a H . for her niece , the only child of Mr . Arrowsmith : such a proposal from one who can and will make a considerable
addition to the very good fortune that the young lady ' s father can give her , is a great proof of her esteem for my son , who has been much with her from his childhood : and what she requires on my part is that I use my interest in your lordship , and
mention her as joining with me to beg of you to confer a handsome living on my son . This will crown all the instances of your beneficence towards me . —I want words to express the joy with which a happy success in this affair would carry me through the
small remainder of my life , and make me yield it up to its bounteous Author ; or to describe the tearing anxiety that would accompany a disappointment from your refusing what
I humbly ask . —Wherefore I beg of your lordship to make me feel the beginning of that satisfaction 1 have already in view by euch a reply to this petition as may be pleasing to the excellent friends I am herein con-
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cerned with , and sq highly obliged to , and to the heart of an old semnt who has loved you ail his life , and served you as well as he could ( would to God it had been better ) and will love yon till death and beyon d it I am , my Lord , yours , &c . *
T . P . " Dear Sir , 6 Feb . 175 ^ " You cannot rejoice moresincerely at any good that falls on any part of your family than I do : tho * youtnay feel it more paternally . In answer to what you propose , I first say that
I was 75 years old on the 14 th of last Kovember . What may happen God only knows . But if it shd be both physically and morally in my power to serve your son , . you may depend upon it , without the force of the strong expression you make use of . For my own inclination will / in such case do
it . And the regard I have for the D . of N—ch ( and his lady , tho' unknown , only by report ) and for Mr . Arrowsmith , to whose faithful services and exemplary behaviour 1 was long ago a witness at Stretham , will not at all
abate but increase the inclination . I cannot suppose that by what you say , you can mean such a living as would make void M—lkshana which your son told me was worth £ 250 perann . for that would be to * ....
entirely a valuable living very hardly obtained y but one that would be an handsome addition to his income . And this must be one within the canonical distance . Nor do I suppose that the chapter of Salisbury will ever enter into
measures for an exchange of Mlfcshm , &c . I wish you would tell nae freely what you understand by an handsome living , assuring you of my sincere disposition to do any thing in my power agreeable to your own wishes . I have without doubt several good
livings in my patronage . But you must remember that when you mentioned your request for your son 1 ftfirst , I told you of engagements , and I now tell vou that since that , I nave
not had one vacancy , as far as 1 « an recollect , of a living in Wilts of about 13 O / . per annum . I think myself obliged to speak plainly , that nothing rrtay be expected from me that 1 can " hot pretend to perform . I have , an
* Something- is here wanting : : vacaU perhaps * or relinquish .
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26 g Memoir of the Reiu Thomas Pyle , M . A .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/4/
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