to y' grace's good instruction. In this view I shall think my self infinitely happy in receiving from y' grace from time to time such instructions as you shall be pleasd to give me. I have not yet the honour of being actually in office, because the Prince's family is not yet declard; but I have no doubt of that employment under his highness which I mentioned in my last to y' grace. Her R. Highness is hourly expected in town, the prince went this morning at 5 a'clock to Margate to meet her. I am much pressd in time this day, & must beg y' grace to excuse my being oblidgd to conclude so soon. I am, with great respect, Y grace's most dutifull & most oblidgd humble servant, I received yesterday a letter from Mr. Manley giving an account of the seizing of a parcel of treasonable papers with one Jeffereys directed to Dr. Swift. I acquainted my Lord Lieutenant with it, who was very well pleased with this fresh instance of your grace's zeal and diligence in the King's service, which can not fail of being highly acceptable to His Majesty. His Excy commanded me to give you his thanks for it; and he hopes that, if there appears enough against the Doctor to justify it, he is kept in confinement, and Mr. Houghton also, but how far that may be justifyable your grace is best able to judge; I presume they are at least held to very good & sufficient bail. If any thing can add to your grace's caracter, this application to the publick service will undoubtedly heighten it in the esteem of all good men, which, like all other things that may happen to your advantage, will give a particular satisfaction to, my Lord, your grace's most dutifull and most obed humble servant, Bath, May 25, 1715. CH. DELAFAYE. My Lord Lieutenant's health is daily improving. APPENDIX XX.-LETTERS OF ADDISON TO ARCHBISHOP KING. 1. My Lord, May 24, 1715. Mr. Delafay tells me that H. E. not being willing your grace's letter which I transmitted to him shoud lie too long unanswerd had orderd him to write to your grace by the cross road from the Bath to Chester; so that I need not repeat his Excy's sentiments upon the matters contained in it. As for the case of the Palatines, it has bin often solicited in the Treasury, and upon the death of my Lord Halifax a warrant was found in his pocket ready drawn, but not signed, for the relief of those poor people. I am promised that it shall be dispatched very suddenly. I am sorry that the petition relating to the parish of Warburg has bin unfortunately mislaid, but upon the first receipt of another it shall meet with all possible dispatch. Your grace knows that among a multiplicity of papers such mistakes will sometimes happen. I find that Mr. Gilbert will be Chief Baron, and that our great men are studying at the same time to gratify S R. Levinge, but this last circumstance I dare not mention to any but your grace. My L L is as yet a stranger to it, but will hear of it by this post. I promise my self that our affaires in the Treasury will passe through that office sooner than formerly. My dear and ever-lamented La Halifax was so husy in settling the funds and revenue here in England that he coud not attend to other matters so much as he woud have done at any other time, besides some other reasons which your grace may ghesse. I am, with the greatest respect, my Lord, My Lord, 1. July 2, 1715. The letter which I had lately the honour to receive from your grace gave me a fresh opportunity of making my court to my La Lieutet, who is always very much pleased to read your grace's opinion of things, especially since they so exactly concurre with his own. Our establishment is now finisht and agreed to by His Majestie, and will be signed as soon as it can be transcribed in a fair copy. My Lord is so kind as not to let me know the names of the persons added or left out, that I may not be worried to death by solicitations and importunities, before it is actually signed. He has, I believe, made augmentations to the prime serjeant's salary, and to that of the masters in Chancery. He has likewise struck off about a dozen pensions, and made a separate list of some to be continued till further order, by which means it is hoped they will deserve them by their future behaviour. Mr. Keightly's 400 li. p. an' is taken off, but the 1,000 li. continued. There are, I think, five brigadiers, and very near the same number of major-generals. Col. Creighton is among the former, and Major-General Wynne among the latter. I hope to send over the military commissions some time next week. They have bin signed by the King about a fortnight ago, but ye secretary is so full of businesse that it is very difficult at present to get any thing dispatch'd in his office. I do not remember the name of any one superceded but that of Major Champaigne in Clayton, who has bin represented by very many as a person unworthy of such a trust. As soon as the report on the affaire of Warburgh comes to my hands, I will for certain reasons endeavour to give it the utmost dispatch, since I know your grace has it so much at heart. My Lord Sunderla, tho' perfectly cured of his cholick pains, has frequent returns of his palpitations, which last a day or two together, and are very uneasy to him. I must beg leave to acquaint your grace that my secret service money is all expended, and must therefore beg your grace to move for a new supply if you shall think it proper. I am, with the greatest respect, my Lord, Your grace's most obedient and most humble servant, J. ADDISON. 3. Aug. 25, 1715, My Lord, This evening my Lord Lieutenant tells me that His Majesty was pleased in the morning before he went to the review to declare the Duke of Grafton and La Gallway lords justices of Ireland, and I find Colonel Bladen is to be their secretary. I was with his Exy (for so I must yet call him) at eight a'clock, when he had heard nothing of this matter, but the Duke of Marlborough making him a visite whilst I was there informed him of what had passed. As I have heard nothing of it yet in town, I do not know whether the news will spread enough to be sent to Ireland by this night's post. I have every day hastened the warrant about St. Warburghs, and found so many difficulties in it that I was forced to mention it in the letter to ye Secretary of State as what was earnestly recommended by your grace. I was obliged to go into the country upon an indisposition, when the warrant was drawn up and shown to my La Lt, but I hope it will answer your grace's intentions. It comes to the Lords Justices by this post. Your lordships will likewise receive a warrant for making all the payments due upon the last establishmt from the Queen's demise to the commencement of the new establishment, which my lord hopes will turn to my advantage, having worded the letter to your Excelley in that view. As the Secretaries of State here have drawn from me about a thousand pounds by the commissions which they have given out, so if I lose the benefit of the two quarters succeeding the Queen's death, my place will be quite starved by my Ld L absence from the Government. I most humbly recommend myself to your grace's protection in particulars of this nature, and shall ever remain, with the greatest gratitude and respect, my lord, your grace's Most obedient and most humble servant, J. ADDISON. My La Lt will, I believe, be declared Privy Seal to-morrow. My Lord, 4. Oct. 4, 1715. Tho I have nothing to trouble your grace with at present, all matters relating to Ireland being now entirely passed into other hands, I cannot dispense with myself from repeating my humble thanks to your grace for the many favours you have bin pleased to shew me during the short continuance of my secretaryship. I am not without hopes of paying my duty to your grace in person very suddenly, and in the mean time cannot forbear taking all opportunities of expressing my sentiments here of the obligations His Majesty has to your grace for the services you have renderd him before and since his accession to the throne. I do not know but the vanity I have of being thought to have a share in your grace's good opinion may frequently put me upon this subject, but at the same time I am sure nothing can be more for His Majesty's as well as our country's interest, than that such persons shou'd on all occasions have justice done them who are best able to promote it. My Lord Gallway set out for Ireland yesterday, and as his lordship's marches are but slow, it is probable the Duke of Grafton may overtake him before his arrival in that kingdome. Your grace has doubtlesse heard before this that Col. Bladen and Mr. Delafay are to be joint secretarys, and that the two secretarys places are to be thrown together. Mr. Walpole is the patron of the first of these two gentlemen, who might have bin envoy to Switzerland if he had pleased: and I can not see how he can propose greater advantages to himself from halving the secretarys post in Ireland. The Duke of Grafton is a perfectly good-humoured man, and woud have bin too happy might he have learn't the arts of government under such an associate as I cou'd have wisht him. I was informed yesterday that overtures had bin made for the surrendry of Sr W. Windham, who has this morning given up himself, and has bin under examination before the Cabinet. He has a good councellor in his father-in-law the Duke of Somerset. An expresse arrived yesterday from the Earle of Barclay, desiring a reinforcement at Bristol, for that he expected every moment a rising in that place. A colonel was sent into those parts to apprehend Mr. Colson, but miss'd him. Several others, as Kynaston and Forster, can not be met with. It seems very odde that none are yet discoverd to have embarqued in this hellish conspiracy but the inconsiderate, hot-headed men of the party. It is to be suspected that the ringleaders are more obliged to their caution than their innocence that they are not yet detected, since it is observed that none of 'em have taken this opportunity to wait on His MajTM, and expresse their abhorrence of such proceedings. The conduct of the University of Oxford is very unaccountable. They have not yet addressed H. M., nor intend to do it. One of the heads of colleges, who is a moderate Tory, told me they durst not propose an addresse in Convocation where there are so many violent young fellows as woud certainly reject it. We expect every day to hear of Mr. Walpole's being at the head of the Treasury and a member of the Cabinet. His brother, is said, will be secretary to that board, who is now gone to hasten over the Dutch troupes. Sr R. Onslow will be a peer and a teller, and the rest of the board either continued or provided for to their satisfaction. Our principal businesse in Parliament on Thursday next will I believe be to move for writts for new elections with respect to those who get places. Our ministers have letters from France that the Duke of Ormond was going towards Brest, but that upon the road he met with a message from his friends in England, upon which he returned to Paris. The good disposition of the Duke of Orleans, and the vigilance of our ministers who are busy'd day and night in the discovery of these dark designs, give us reason to hope that they will end in the perfect settlement of His Maties throne and the crushing of that sett of men who woud make him uneasy in it. I beg your grace's pardon for such a confused news-letter, and am ever, with the utmost respect and gratitude, my lord, your grace's most obedient and most obliged humble servant, J. ADDISON. There is a talk of a battle in Scotland, but I believe it is Exchange news. My Lord, 5. Oct, 6, 1715, When I had the honour to write to your grace on Tuesday I did not think I shoud have had occasion to have troubled you so soon with another letter. But His Ma'y having bin pleased to bestow a marke of his royal favour upon me in augmenting the salary of my place in Ireland and granting it me for life in consideration of my services when I was secretary to the Lords of the Regency, and that affairs having bin_dispatched through the Treasury much sooner than I expected, I make bold to apply to your grace for the continuance of your favour in this particular. My Lord Godolphin promised me in a letter under his own hand to move the late Queen for the same grant I have now obtained the next time he shoud wait upon Her Majesty, but he was immediately after displaced before he met with an opportunity of doing me this kind office. During the late ministry I was under apprehensions every day of being removed, not having deserved the indulgence at their hands which they were pleased to shew me. This hinderd me from settling the office I have so long enjoy'd in the method prescribed me by the grant. This, with the obligation I am under to take the oaths, will I hope give me the honour of waiting on your grace in Ireland. In the meantime, by my Lord Sunderlds advice, I presume to send your grace and the present Lords Justices my warrant from the Treasury, which I have also communicated to the Duke of Grafton by his secretary. I shoud be glad to own my obligations to none but your grace for the giving this warrant its proper effect in Ireland, since I believe it will reach your grace's hands a few days before the arrival of the Duke of Grafton and the Lord Gallway. I am sorry that ev'ry letter I write to your grace shou'd be either to acknowledge or aske your favour, but if it lay in my power to make any return of gratitude I shoud think it one of the happiest incidents in my life, being ever, with the most unfeigned respect, my lord, your grace's most obedient and most obliged humble servant, J. ADDISON. The H. of Commons met this morning, but promotions not being yet ripe we only orderd the Speaker's last speech to H. M. to be enter'd in ye journals & adjourn'd to this day fortnight. Letters are just come in from ye D. of Argyle who says he has nothing to fear. The L Mar is but 3,000 strong. 6. March 224, 1717. My Lord, The affaires of Ireland being now entirely passed from my hands into those of others I can only thank your grace for the honour of your last letter and wish the scheme contained in it may takeplace, which our great men here being acquainted with, I question not but they will give that attention to it which everything deserves that comes from your grace. My Lord Lieutenant will, I believe, this evening, transmitt to your grace a warrant that regards myself which never proceeded from any request or intimation of my own; but as I cannot but value such a mark of His Mties acceptance of my poor services I must entreat your grace's favour in giving the proper orders for its taking the designed effect. I shoud not presume to trouble your grace on this occasion had I not already received great instances of your favour, and were not I, with the most inviolable sincerity and respect, my lord, Your grace's Most obedient and most humble servant, His Grace the Arch-Bp. of Dublin. In addition to the foregoing, the collection contains letters of the following dates addressed from England by Addison to Archbishop King: 1714, October 1.-New Chancellor and Chief Judges for Ireland desire their warrants may be immediately sent to the Lord Justices by express, it being their intention to follow them in a very few days. Letter to be delivered by Mr. Forster, written pursuant to a conference which his lordship has had with some of the principal gentlemen in Ireland now in this kingdom. 1714, October 8.-Addison recommends his kinsman whom he has appointed to act as his deputy, in room of Mr. Dawson, at solicitation of Irish gentlemen, and by particular direction of Lord Lieutenant. 1714, November 23.-Reply to Archbishop King's recommendation of Mr. Parnell. Promotion of Dr. Bolton. His Majesty recommends that Mr. Greenshields be provided for in Ireland. I hope Mr. Daniel's promotion to the archdeaconry of Killaloe will be agreeable to yo' grace, and cannot but be the better pleased with any good fortune which may happen to him, since I have read a very handsome dedication, which he made to a very fine poeme." "My lord has left the case of the half-pay officers and pensioners to the consideration of the Lords Justices, that they may be relieved according to their exigencies, and the present state of the Treasury. I am only to hint to your grace that S T. Hanmer presses very much in behalf of Capt" Philips, and St Thomas is a person whom his Excy woud be desirous to oblige. Madame de Montandre has likewise great solicitations in her favour, and a very indigent gentleman, called L Power, is starving for want of his customary relief. I have therefore my Ld Lieutenant's particular directions to desire your Grace will take these three persons under your care, and order their payments in such proportion as you shall think proper. The last of them has a son, who is now in his travells, and has nothing I believe to subsist upon but his Irish pension." 1714-15, February 19.-Addison obliged to attend his election in the country. 1714-15, March 9.-The bearer, Mr. Sterlin, universally recommended by the gentlemen of Ireland to Lord Lieutenant, is proposed as barrack master of Waterford. 1714-15, March 12.-Candidates for barrack master's place at Dublin. "I shall leave Mr. Budgell to lay before your grace what has bin usual as to the secret service money, and shall take care to put it to the proper use. I am forced often to advance money here to take out warrants for gentlemen in Ireland, to pay messengers, and sometimes to relieve such indigent petitioners as are not able to carry on a just pretension, not to mention the article of stationary ware, &c. And as I do not follow my predecessors in taking fees for recommendatory letters or any businesse done in England, the usual allowance on this head will be an ease to me. But this I submit entirely to your grace." 1715, March 29.-Lord Lieutenant hopes to get Mr. Manley something upon the Post Office in England or upon the Irish establishment. The Primate of Ireland has written to Dr. Dering and Dr. Lancaster on altering the public prayers. "I hope your grace will not be disappointed in your expectations from the Brittish Parliament. Our great men seem determined to act with steadiness and unanimity, and on Monday next, if we may believe what is said, something will enterd on preliminary to impeachments. There will be three more regiments sent over to Ireland, which will make up the compliment of 12,000. These regiments are to be re-raised under Wills, Wade, and Borr, who were broke out of their turns, and will be officerd by their respective officers now in half pay." 1715, April 12.-Mr. King to succeed Thornton as Stationer General. "This post will, I fear, bring your grace the melancholy news of my Lord Wharton's death. He has said more than once that the affaire of his son woud break his heart, and I am affraid it has had too great a share in his sicknesse." "As the Parliament takes up a great deal of my time, I am forced to write many of my letters there, so that I must beg your grace's pardon, as well for the haste they are written in, as the paper I am forced to make use of." 1715, May 5.-Affair of parish of St. Werburgh, Dublin. Letter to Lords Justices in favor of Mr. Taylor, at earnest recommendation of Mons Kregenberg, His Majesty's resident in London, when Elector of Hanover. Lord Lieutenant indisposed at Bath. "Mr. Secretary Stanhope will move His Majesty for his royal letters to make Mr. Caulfield a judge, and Mr. Boate prime serjeant. I believe your grace will approve my La Lieutenants over ruling several applications made in behalf of Councellor Stevens for a cushion. H. E. will, I believe, settle the new establishm' at the Bath, and either bring it up with him or send it to me, in order to be signed." 1715, June 5.—Accounts of the kingdom. Affair of St. Werburgh's. 66 : "I have several times solicited the Treasury, both by letter and word of mouth, upon the affaire of the Palatines, and find the comm'rs and secretaries of that office can very difficultly persuade themselves of the reasonablenesse of what is proposed in the report on that subject but yesterday I pressed them so far in it that they called for the papers, and gave an order to draw up such a warrant as is desired, wch I hope to transmitt some time next week. I am bound in justice, on this occasion, to acquaint your grace that Hintz, the agent of the Palatines, has bin an indefatigable solicitor, both at the Treasury and with my La Lieutenant. I believe my La Lieutenant has it in his thoughts * pair the losse sustained by so many lords who were in his * ties interest; and in particular to recom'end the two persons mention'd by your grace, to whom I believe I may add Mr. Moor.” 66 Upon the receipt of Mr. Budgell's letter yesterday in the afternoon, I very much pressed the Secretary to get an order for that post, to put off the election at Dublin College, but he told me it coud not possibly be done before this day, when a Cabinet Council is to meet. I then gave into his hands some other memorandums relating to the dispersion of libels, &c., that they might be laid before the Cabinet at the same time, which he promised me to do. I have orderd an expresse to be in readinesse upon occasion; since a very short delay or a contrary wind may render an order ineffectual, and it * Torn. will be now more than two days before the departure of the ordinary post." 1715, August 4 [Misdated 1705].-Payments to halfpay officers and pensioners. Recommendation of writer's kinsman, Captain Addison, who leaves for Ireland. "I have found the advantage of your grace's putting Mr. Budgell in mind of the secret service money, for I have received by this post a bill for 200, which I shall take care to lay out for the proper uses." 1715, August 13.-Obscure in consequence of portions having been lost through damage. APPENDIX XXI.--NORTH OF IRELAND, 1715. My Ld, I should sooner have given your grace ye trouble of this letter to have acquainted you as well as I am able with ye present state of ye county, but yt I was kept a considerable time on ye road by ye indisposition of one of my children. I have since my comeing here seen & conversed with severall of ye gentlemen of ye county & find they are all zealously well affected to his Majesty, I must except some of thos of ye barony of Enishowen who by what I can find give but too much reason to suspect their affection to his Majesty. I therefore hope y none of yt Barony except Mr. Charles Norman & George Hart may be commisioners of array; & I have substantiall reasons for desireing this, too long at y time to trouble y" with. The great scarcity of armes in y county is beyond any thing I could have imagind till about three days ago yt I had occasion to send some men after seven torys yt were hunted out of Fermanagh and in ye barony of Killmakrenan, I could not get thirty men tolerably armed tho' I believe y county will be able to array seven thousand men. aske y' grace's pardon for ye trouble of y'. I am, with great respect, y' grace's most obedit & most faith" humble servt, FRED. HAMILTON. I Lifford ye 9th August 1715. APPENDIX XXII.-PROSECUTION IN IRELAND A.D. 1715. May it please yo' Exc'y, I'm encouradg'd by the many favors your exc'y has honour'd me with to ask one more, the goodness & charity of your exc'y may assure success where distress, oppression & innocence are the advocats, these I lay at your exc'ys feet to plead the following case:-An unfortunat gentleman who is my relation & neighbour, whose sole support for him & his family was a ffarm of a 1001. a year profit or thereabouts, which ffarm was in his family for some descents; on or near the determination of his lease, his own gossip, neighbour, & bosom friend has unknown to him taken this ffarm over his head, this treacherous dealing stirr'd up a resentment in my friend, which at their next meeting he express'd after a gentlemanlike manner (as people call it), of which the other & his adherents (the chief of whom was Gen" Steuart) taking the advantage of the law had my friend endicted at Cork assizes, by privat ways got a Presentm against him as a Tory, robber & rapparee & this return'd to the Lds Justices with an intent to have him outlawed. My La, he is of an ancient Protestant ffamily in this county, I know him very well & never knew or heard any ill thing of them or him till this unhappy accident. I wou'd not, my L", for all the friends on earth tell this to your exc'y, were it not true, he has sev affid'ts of gentlemen in this county to strengthen this character, his name is Rich Fitzgerald. Now I beg in his behalf my L, when this business will come before your exc'y in Council, that you'l use him with your wonted and unbounded clemency, which shall be ever acknowledg'd by him & all his friends and especially by, my La, Your Excy's most obliged and humble servant, frequent correspondence by letters, and I find she takes all occasions to shew favour and confidence to men of his character. I have had of late the honour of being for some time alone with his grace, and as he was pleased to talk of matters relating to Ireland, so I think myself particularly obliged to mention what he spoke relating to the Test, your grace being the best able and most willing to do service to the Church in that matter. I find great care has been taken to give him wrong impressions of that affair, namely, that it was forced on the nation, and imposed but lately, that they have ever since been uneasy under it, that all methods must be taken to encrease the force of Protestants and make the King's freinds easy, but above all that the House of Commons must not be disobliged, who have unanimously desired it; this last I find cheifly insisted on, tho' your grace knows but for a sudden terrour artfully raised, it was not their desire; to all these I mentioned what I thought proper to urge, but lay it before your grace who are perfectly master of this important question; I find there are thoughts here of qualifying the bill by making it for three years only, and some such like softnings, but I must own I should answer like King Charles the first, no, not for an hour, for if ever it goes it is gone for ever. Your grace will excuse this freedome in a matter that so nearly concernes our happy establishment, for now our succession is secured, nothing can so nearly import the peace and happiness of our kingdome in the humble opinion of My most Hond, y' Grace's London, March 17. Most obedient son and obliged humble servant, ROB. HOWARD. I have the honour of your grace's of the 24 inst., and can now informe you that our ceremonial is setled, and Friday in next week appointed for our day. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the La Chancellour are ready for their parts, a very full compliment prepared by the Provost, of which Mr. Molyneux has the copy to shew the Prince, to prepare a proper answer, an entertainment ordered at Somerset House, to which all the Irish gentlemen that attend the compliment are to be desired, and there are about forty or fifty now in towne. The Provost took hold of his grace's opinion that the speech would do well in mother tongue, so that matter could not be insisted on; his grace also advised our getting scarlet gownes, which are accordingly prepared. I am highly pleased with your grace's approbation of our conduct hitherto, and hope we shall still continue to preserve it. Besides his grace of Canterbury the Bishops of Norwich, Oxford, and our new one of Meath, enquired for your grace with great regard, and present their humble respects to you; they ask many things relating to Ireland, and I hope I have had some times an opportunity of informing them right. The repeal of the Triennial Act is now the subject of all conversation, some very much allarm'd, and every body thinking it a matter of great consequence; the attempting the test in Ireland is generally thought a very unskilfull step, even by those that don't think it a wicked one; but I am persuaded if it is stood steadily against it will fall, and your grace compleat your merits to the Church of Ireland. L Sunderland has declined seeing us together; but I find he will be glad to see me alone. I beleive steady councils are right; but I question wheither such severe ones are for the publick service. Mr. Molyneux is somewhat piqued at his obstinacy in this affair, and assures us that his advice has not been listned too in our business, for I have some reason to think the prince was advised to coldness at least, if not neglect; but he was pleased to be more graciously inclined, and has declared all signs of approbation. I am much concerned to find y' grace is still out of order; but hope the spring will restore a health so dear to all that have the honour of being known to you, and so useful to the publick, which is the constant prayer of Y' grace's most obedient son and obliged humble servant, My most Hond Lord, 3. ROB. HOWARD. In my last I acquainted your grace how our ceremonial was setled, I beg leave now to give you an account how well it was executed to our honour and satisfaction. Wee gave notice to the Irish gentlemen, who appeared at Court in great numbers: his grace of Canterbury introduced us to the Prince with a short but very kind speech, and then the Provost spoke very well and fully*: it went of extreamly well, and he has been much complimented upon it; the Prince looked very much pleased, and accepted our offer in a very gracious manner, the wordes I shan't mention, because Mr. Molyneux tells me he has sent them to your Grace: Mr. Molyneux read the diploma, the lord chancellour gave the oath, he was then admitted, and wee kissed his hand. Wee were afterwards introduced to the Princess, who received us in the most gracious manner; she said she thought herself very happy in the University's of Dublin having done the Prince the honour to choose him their chancellour, and she was persuaded he would always have a very great regard for every member of that body who had expressed their duty in so loyal and acceptable a manner. Wee afterwards went to Somerset House, where wee were very nobly entertained, the Speaker of the Commons, who is the Prince's treasurer, doing the honours of the table, and afterwards inviting us to dinner at his own house. Your grace will excuse my being so particular; but wee are to be introduced to-morrow to the King, his grace of Canterbury still doing us that honour, and then Mr. Molyneux will carry us to returne our compliment of thanks to all the great men whom wee have troubled on this occasion. Every thing has gone on extreamly well, and as I hope wee have obeyed your grace's directions, so I must still give you the first honour of having set this whole machine in motion. The order for taking of the inhibition goes over this night, and the vice-chancellours commission by next post. My Lord of Canterbury presents his humble service to your grace; all parties here think very well of him, for I can assure you he has lost no ground of late with the Tories. The repealing the Triennial Bill was brought in this day by the Duke of Devonshire, read a first time, ordered a second on Saturday next, when that very important point is to be fully debated; but it will certainly pass. Lord Nottingham violent against it. Your grace's goodness will excuse all this, and My most Hond Lord, 4. R. HOWARD. Since my last to your grace, wee have had the honour to be introduced to the King, and kiss his hand; the archbishop took this trouble on him, and we are highly indebted to your grace's goodness for recommending us to so high and acceptable a patron; he has spoke very favourably of us both to the King and Prince. He was very well received and heard by both, spoke French very readily to the King, to the Prince in English, who answers fluently enough. We afterwards waited on the Princesses who are very pretty and extremely well behaved, especially the Lady Ann, who has an understanding much above her years. Everybody about court appeared very well pleased with our message, and wee had compliments from the German courtiers. Wee were at the Prince's levee; he bowes very graciously, and desires the speeches and whole should be made publick. When we waited at the King's levee, his Grace of Canterbury spoke again about the Test, promised to do his utmost in it; but said the gentlemen of Ireland did not express any dislike of their bill; this, my lord, is the main point, and would weigh more than all the rest to have men of weight and known affection to the King's service discourage it. Whereas he said hitherto none had advised against it but the bishops. I hope I don't mistake if I apprehended he meant that other people would be better heard by those in power. I find they dont think of sending us another bishop; from your side they expect recommendations, and tis with pleasure wee hear that your grace has taken care of restoring the quarter parts to the clergy, who have been much burthened by that payment. I think that income, tho lessned, will be much more comfortable to the next archbishop. The provost and my brother present their duty to your grace. I am, with all duty, London, Apr. 12. My most Hond Lord, 5. I hope this will find your grace safely arrived at Bath, and already receiving benefit from the waters. Our Commencement was celebrated with a very full appearance, and speeches from our vice-chancellour and proctors. I brought in an address, to which some amendments were offered, extreamly improper and absurd, the substance of the paragraph offered to be added, being, that wee thanked the Prince for the honour he had done us, and care he shewed in taking of our inhibition, which was put on by wicked and ill-designing men. I insisted on the question being put for the address I had read, wheither it should be the address of the congregation, and it was carried fifty-eight to eleven. I wish the numbers of the well affected stood so in both the English universities, and then wee might have a blessed prospect of future peace and quiet. Since your grace left Ireland wee have had a recommendation from the Prince of one Monsieur Regis, a clergyman, of French extraction, and, as I hear, a relation of my Lord Galloway's, for a doctor's degree, tho I think such recommendations a very great hardship upon us, wee could not altogether refuse our chancellour the first time, and have made him a Batchelour in divinity. His Grace of Canterbury wrote also in his favour; I must earnestly beg of your grace to screen us hereafter from such applications, and to represent to my Lord of Canterbury and Mr. Molyneux the inconvenience of giving degrees in such a manner, or they will grow into contempt, when they are matter of favour, and servile court application, and not the reward of long standing and merit: and indeed I must own to your grace that if such applications grow frequent I shall think it my duty to propose to our board that a representation be drawn up and laid before our chancellour of the inconveniences of it, and I promise myself from his justice and goodness that wee shall not be troubled with them hereafter. Both our college and university are in a very good disposition towards our new chancellour, and I hope more will not be put on us than wee are able to bear. It would have been impossible to have carried the degree for Mr. Regis in the Regent house, so that he has only the grace of our house. I beg your grace's prayers and blessing, and am, with the greatest respect, Y' grace's most obedient son and most Trin. Coll., Jul. 18. APPENDIX XXIV.-DEAN FRANCIS, GRANDFATHER OF SIR PHILIP FRANCIS.* May it please y' Grace, I presume to give y' grace the trouble of receiveing my gratefull acknowledgm's for y' grace's tendernesse to my friend, Deane Francis; there is not any one thing in ye world wch yr grace cou'd do for mee wch cou'd affect my mind more deeply with a sence of y' goodness or oblige mee more to devote myself to y' service dureing the rest of my life. I came first acquainted with him about 30 yrs ago, in Lancashire, where he was tutor to ye present S Roger Bradshaigh, & in Augt 88, when the mayor of Chester, my self, the record', all the aldermen & com'on councell, being 64 persons, were in one day remov'd from our sev'all stations, expressely for refuseing to take up the test & penal laws, & agreed to dine together on yt occasion. This gent was by com'on consent pitch't upon to be our chaplayne, as one known to us all to be well affected to the Protestant intrest agt the then attempts of popery & arbitrary power, & after the Prince of Orange landed, haveing some scruples in my mind ariseing from some prejudices of my educac'on, I consulted with him concerning my going to Nottingham to to the then Earle of Devonshire, my Lord Cholmely & others then in armes, & when I had receaved satisfac'on in my doubts I went over to them. Afterwards in the year '90, I was made solicit' here, & in '91 I sent for Mr. Francis, & hee liv'd 3 yrs in my house before he got any pferm. The opinion wch I have of his integrity is well grounded & the effect of long experience, & his learning & abilities in his profession are known to all, & I do not believe yt such a man cou'd at any other time have been sacrific'd & his wife & seven children lett to starve in his old age. I have done all yt I can on ye other side ye water to prevent his ruine, & those yt I have writ to have credit enough with ye Duke & Dutchesse both to This letter furnishes details in connexion with Dean Francis which were not brought to light through the extensive researches of the late Joseph Parkes, author of "Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis; completed and edited by H. Merivale." London, 1867. lay aside the present orders & to get for the deane the title of the crown. I have no need to importune y' grace; no one knows better the means of his preservac'on than y' grace, & I'm told y' grace has expresst y' self with compassion & with a disposic'on to protect him as far as you can fittly do it, & I am sure you will make it good. I am extreamly obligd to yr grace for y' many fav'rs, & wou'd have waited on you to expresse my self more fully if I was not just goeing out of town. I am, with all sincerity, May it please y' grace, These ffor his Grace Y' grace's most dutifull & most obliged servt, My Lord Archbp. of Dublin. R. LEVINGE. Endorsed: "Sir Richard Leving, March 1717-8." APPENDIX XXV.-A. CHARLETT, MASTER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, 1717-18. 1. Univ. Coll., Oxon, 12 March 1717-18. May it please your Grace, I cannot, without very much shame, look upon a very kind letter of your grace's, dated May last the 25th, not yet answered; but that which first created the delay was my inquiry after Mathæus Pfaffius, to whose book your grace referred me for a character of Dr. Grabbe. I could not meet with any of that author's works till within this fortnight, and now if I have met with the right, being his Anecdota Sti Irencei, Hago Comitis, 80, 1715. I am most agreably surprised to find him so true and candid a freind & defender of Dr. Grabbes adherence to the Protestant religion, the Ch. of England established, and a great aversion to the errors & corruptions of the Ch. of R., all which he averrs to his own knowledge to be true, even to the time of his death. As to his singularity of opinions in preferring some part of the Communion Service in the Scotch Common Prayer Book, I believe Mr. Pfaffius may be very true, and I have heard Dr. Grabbe sometimes with much modesty own his preferring of it, of which he spoke wth diffidence, no sort of eagernesse as a private wish or desideratum, or infirmity of his own, which he seemed unwilling should be known to young gentlemen, students, or common people for feare of ill uses might be made of it, avoiding w great decency, not only disputing, but even the least mention of it. The two persons that he chose here most familiarly to open such difficultys to (for none desired more or enjoyed oftener his instructive and delightfull conversation then myself), were the present B'ps of Bristol and Oxford, the later bred up in this college, both my early acquaintants, frequent and very acceptable visitants of me, at that time one deputy for Dr. Tane, the other providing to succeed him, both therefore delighting to talk over the more abstruse points or controversys with Dr. Grabbe, and both these will, I suppose, joyn in a testimonial of Dr. Grabbes learning, principles, virtues, &c., wth some other R. R. to be printed in the next volume of the Septuagint now ready to be published from the Theatre, from Dr. Grabbe's notes, which are now by Dr. Hickes will, I think, to be deposited in the Bodleian Library. But notwithstanding this candor of Mr. Pfaffius, who studdyed here several months, not many years since, I have met with another very learned French critic, and, one as I am assured by young Mr. Gronovius, was no ill-natured man, being a professor at Leiden, lately dead, has in a book publisht the last yeare, given a very infamous account of Dr. Grabbes morals & conversation, but so monstrously agst all evidence of sense, so extravagantly false as that not one who ever saw Dr. Grabbe, or once conversed wth him, but must pronounce to be impossible, being not only one of the most self denyers as to sleep, diet, watching, &c., but agreeably as mortifyd in his looks, being mere skin & bones, yet very chearfull and easy in his conversation, and very complaisant. It is Casimirus Oudinus Trias Dissertationum criticarum, 1ma de Codice Alexandrino &, Lugdun. Bat. 1717, his words I have here* inclosed, for feare |