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Desire of the new ones, to become Att. Genl again, & to acquiesce in Ld
Ch. Justice Prats being made a Peer. The D. of Grafton & Ld
Rockingham begged me to advise the King to ennoble him: but I
declined it. I asked Ld R. to give my Nephew Frost a place, but could
get no answer. See my Paper. I named it to him sevl times.]
Mr Sellon having printed a Book or large Pamphlet agst an Arian
Exposition of the New Testamt, I sent him 10 Guineas, without
acquainting him whence it came.
This Year I made the last Payment for serving the Cure of
Whitstable, during the Inability of Mr Patten. That cost me above 76 11
besides 63-00-0 given him towds his Support.
I also made a Present of 20^ to Mr Waterhouse, vicar of Hollingbourn.
I began also, this year or last, to give 10 Guineas yearly to the
Protestant College of Debritzen in Hungary.
The Vestry Clerk of St James's being killed by a Fall of a House, I
gave 20* 1 to his Family, & design to add to it.
I gave likewise this Year 500 1 * towards building a Chapel in Lambeth
Parish, which is now building at Stockwell.
This Year I married Mr Henry Talbots Daughter to Capt Cornwall
in Lambeth Chapel, & paid 14 Guineas for the Fees of a Special
Licence.
In April this Year died my Nephew John Frost: to whom I had given
at different times 650* 1 or more, besides Preferment. I also gave my
sister, his Mother, in all at least 500 11 . And to my Nephew Thomas Frost
2300^. In all 3450 1 *. I have given my Nephew George Seeker & his Wife,
on & since their marriage, above 1260 H .
FOLIO 64 I gave the Vicarage of Croydon this Summer to Mr
1765-66 Apthorpe.
I gave Mr Peters of Philadelphia for the Germans in
Pennsylvania, this Year, 20 Guineas.
I made Dr Ford a Present of a Silver Bread Basket, which cost near
16 Guineas.
I sent to Mr Price, a Clergyman at Lowestoft, formerly a Dissenting
Minister, 20 11 : & to Dr Lind, once my Curate, 20 n .
I gave Mrs Duplan, widow of an Agent for the French Protestants,
20 H .
And to Mr Lye, towds publishing his Saxon Dictionary, 50 11 .
*)[I gave also this Year to Mr Beauvoir for copying MSS relating to
Harbledown 20 Guineas. And towds the repair of Littlebourn Church in
Kent 50 11 . I also gave the Vicarage of Bethersden to Mr Kent of Merton
Coll. bee. I had nominated a Person not of that College to Elham, for
want of due Information abt the Equity of the Case. See the Papers. I