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to Lord Tweedale, who is become my Parishioner. He shook his Head,
&did it. March 26. 1742.
FOLIO 32 I was one of 5 Bishops who voted for the Pension Bill: Lord
1742 Carteret against it. Apr. 6 I voted for the Place Bill. May
25. I did not vote on the 2d reading of the Bill for
indemnifying Persons, who should make Discoveries concerning the
Earl of Orfords Conduct. Bp Benson voted for it. In this Session there
was an Inquiry made, by a Committee of the House of Commons, into
the Conduct of the Select Vestries of the Parishes in Westminster. The
Report from St Martins, St Annes & St James's, was read in the House:
that from St Georges was postponed. A motion to regulate all these
Vestries was rejected without a Division. A motion for a Bill to regulate
all Select Vestries was rejected by 60 against 132. I went about the 10th
of June to Cuddesden. Mrs Sandys came from Miserden thither, &
stayed some time with us. On the 9th of November I went up to St
James's, I know not whether to christen one of the Princes Children, &
returned to Cuddesden the 23d. About this time I took Mrs Stephen's
Medicines in the solid Form, by Dr Hartleys Advice, in a great
Quantity, & continued the use of them a good While. About the end of
this Month, my good Friend Mr Hollister died. *)[Dr Wishart, Provost
of Edinburgh College wrote me a Letter dated Nov. 17, 1743 recommending
to me his brother & Mr Wallace Deputies from the established
Clergy of Scotland to promote a Bill in Parliamt for providing a
maintenance for their widows & Chil-* which many of them fancied the
Bishops wd oppose. I paid him all the Civility & did them all the Service
I could. No Bp opposed their Bill publickly or privately And we took
Care that a Bp shd be present at each of its 3 readings in the House of
Lords.]
In December I presented the Son of my Cousin Brough to the
Vicarage of Orton: which I had given some Years before to a Nephew of
Bishop Butler. But the Bishop being now Dean of St Pauls, had the
Disposal of a living in London:
FOLIO 33 for which not thinking his Nephew fit, he was desirous to
1742-43 give it to Mr Brakenridge of Newchurch, which was in his
Gift as Bishop, & to give Newchurch to his Nephew. But he
concealed his Inclination, & took great Pains, in a courtly manner, to
induce me to ask or accept the promotion of Brakenridge, as a Favour
done to my self. But when I had repeatedly assured him, that I had not
the least Desire of his doing it, he did it for the Reason abovementioned.
On the 21st of December we left Cuddesden for St James's, &
brought with us Lady Mary Grey, who had been with us several months.
* As in MS.