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are disallowed from Mich. 1748 whether dated before that time or after.
I thought this a great Hardship, & spoke largely against it in the House,
on or about May 10.
FOLIO 39 See separate Papers. !)[In the Committee the majority was
1748 against it, of which all the Bishops (present) made part: &
we all went afterwards and dined with the Duke of
Newcastle at nine o'Clock, on a previous Invitation.] Bishop Thomas of
Lincoln also spoke against it upon the Report: but there we were
outvoted. Whether I entrd my Dissent, I do not remember. Mr Wishart,
Provost of Edinburgh College, told me afterwards that the Bill, he
thought, was too hard on the Episcopal ministers, & that the Bishops
had done right.
2 )[In the beginning of 1748, Dr Bentham published, without his
name, & without my Knowledge, A Letter to a young Gentleman, by a
Tutor & Fellow of a College at Oxford. It relates to the political notions
& Disturbances there. I sent him Corrections & Improvements, which
he used in a 2d & 3d Edition, {tow} to which his name was put. Towards
the End of that Year he published, with his Name, A Letter to a Fellow
of a College, which I saw in manuscript, & corrected & enlarged very
much. And from this time forwards I recommended him for a Canonry
of Christ Church.
Many Persons in that University having given just Offence to the
Governmt, & an Address from thence having been drawn up, which
appeared unsatisfactory: a Meeting was held at the Duke of Newcastles,
at which I was, to consider, whether the King shd be advised to receive
it. Bp Sherlocks Opinion principally produced a Resolution, that he shd
not. I was also at meetings there to consider abt a Visitation of the
University: & probably a Bill wd have been brought into Parliamt for
that Purpose, if there had not been some Movements of the Prince of
Wales's Friends to form an opposite Party. [Go on to the next p. but
one] [From the last page but one]* While these things were in Agitation,
Dr Randolph, President of Corpus, wrote me a Letter to say, that the
University in general did not approve the Behaviour of the discontented
Part. Dr King was amongst the Principal of these. I shewed this Letter
to several of the Kings Ministers. When I went down to Cuddesden, Dr
King wrote to me to desire a Copy of this Letter, because Dr Randolph
refused him one. I answered, that he had given me the strongest Reason
for refusing it also. On this I was much abused, in Talk & Satirical
Verses, by that Party]
Before this time, Lord Hardwicke had made a Proposal to me, that
when the Deanery of St Pauls should become vacant, I should have it,
* Both these directions are in Seeker's original manuscript.