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Archbishop; & taken great Pains & spent some money in procuring
Information. Then I drew up a very long State of the Case, & took both
Mr Wilbrahams & Mr Yorkes Opinion upon it. They were both clear,
that the Right was in the Vicar: & on this I withdrew the Claim, which I
had lodged with the Bp of Chester, to nominate to the Chapel of
Rossendale in the Parish of Whalley.
March 2 I gave the Vicarage of Brabourn, abt 100^ a year, to Mr
Price, formerly a Dissenting Minister, who had since been Curate of
Lowestoft, Suffolk. And March 18 1 gave the Vicarage of Godmersham
to Mr Pugh, who had been Curate 20 Years to Dr Daniel Burton. But
after taking Institution to it, he quitted it for a small Living in
Buckinghamshire.
FOLIO 72 1767. On the Publication of a Book last Year, intitled the
1767 Confessional, Mr Jones of Pluckley of his own Account
proposed to me, that he would write an Answer to it. I gave
him Directions about the Manner of writing, sent him very large
Remarks upon it, & furnished him with Books. He made a Beginning,
which he sent me, & I returned him many Corrections of it. Soon after,
he sent me word, that his Health would not permit him to go on. Then I
engaged Mr Ridley, for whom I procured a Drs Degree at Oxford, &
who had also supplied Mr Jones with Observations, to undertake it; & I
put my Papers in his Hands on Mr Jones's returning them to me.
The Confessional having reflected on ABp Wake, on Account of his
Correspondence with the French Popish Divines, I got from Mr
Beauvoir at Canterbury a Collection of original Letters from the ABp to
Mr Beauvoirs Father, Chaplain to Ld Stair at Paris, & from Dr
Bentham Extracts of Copies of ABp Wakes Letters at Christ Church;
which, put together, fully clear him from all Imputations. And I
methodized both these, & sent what I had done to Dr Richardson, Sir
Joseph Yorkes Chaplain at the Hague to be communicated to Mr
Maclaine for the Foundation of his Defence of the ABp, which he
proposed to subjoin to the 2d Edition of his Translation of Mosheims
Ecclesiastical
FOLIO 73 History, & which I have advised him also to print sepa-
1767 rately.
I have also, on occasion, of some Assertions in the
Confessional, examined the Authenticity of the first Part of the 20th
Article of the Church of England, & the meaning of 13 Eliz. c. 12
concerning Subscription to the Articles, perhaps somewhat more accurately
than had been done before, & have set down my Thoughts in
writing.