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FOLIO 78 & the Commissary of the Sussex Peculiars, to be signed by
1767 them, & sent to the Parochial Clergy under their Jurisdiction;
directing them, in pursuance of the Kings Orders, to
make their Returns to the Bishops of the Dioceses within which they are
situated.
A Person, stiling himself, A real Protestant, probably Mr Caleb
Fleming, a Socinian Dissenting Teacher, having patronized in a News
Paper the beforementioned Calumny against Bp Butler, I confuted him
in the same Paper by a third Letter signed Misopseudes. See P. 72.
And a Person, stiling himself a Student, having endeavoured to
prove in a News Paper, that Popish Priests, converts to the Church of
England, ought to be reordained; I answered him in the same Paper, by
a Letter signed Another Student. He replied, & I published an answer to
his Reply, under the same Name.
^[In July I gave the Vicarage of Godmersham to Mr D'Aeth,
Brother to Sir Fra. D'Aeth, a serious Clergyman of low Abilities; &
allowed him to hold the Rectory of Knowlton a small Family Living, &
the Curacy of Whitfield, with it.]
On the Death of Dr Geekie, Prebendary of Canterbury, this
Summer, I gave his Prebend to Mr John Benson, of whom see before; &
Mr Bensons Place, of one of the six Preachers, to Mr Thompson, Vicar
of Elham, of whom see before. And Dr Geekies {Living} Vicarage of
All-hallows, Barking, worth near 400^ a Year, but clear about 250* 1 , I
gave
FOLIO 79 to Dr Stinton my Chaplain.
1767 And Dr Denne, Rector of Lambeth, dying not long
after, I gave that Rectory, worth near 600^ a year, but
above 400 clear, to Dr Porteus, my other Chaplain, to hold with
Hunton, one of the Livings, which I had given him before. I did this,
because I had engaged him to continue my Chaplain: & for the same
Reason I must do something more for Dr Stinton, if I can.
In September I gave 20 1 * to Mr Landon of Ifield, a worthy Orthodox
Clergyman, disabled by a stroke of the Palsy from officiating
I gave the Rectory of Wittrisham, vacant by the Cession of Dr
Stinton, to Mr Winde of Pembroke College, at whose Grandfathers
House {at Gloucester,} I had formerly lodged two Years. And I engaged
him to attend me as my Chaplain, when Dr Stinton or Dr Porteus
should be absent.
Oct. 1. I gave 200^ to augment the Vicarage or Curacy of Little
Brickhill, which is in the Gift of the Archbishop.
This last Summer, at the Duke of Newcastles Request, I recor
mended to the King, Mr Backhouse or Mr Whissen for the Place
Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge,