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Letter 8
24 June
1765
NLS: MS 25295, ff. 134-135
Dear Sir
I wrote to the Master of St John's in Cambridge, to the Master of Pembroke in Oxford and to Dr Birch in London.[29] I have inclosed their three
I own this tract of the A.Bp. of York's[30] was always a favorite of mine; [deletion] for the wit, the good sense, and the Learning of it.—Ld Clarendon in his 4th B. of Hist. Reb. mentions it in this manner—he published a Book ag t the using those Ceremonies, in which there was much good learning, and too little gravity for a Bishop.[31] By too little gravity, his Lordship means, too much wit. But if one considers ye nature of that trifling subject, at that time of solemn importance one shall be ready to confess that the Bp treated it as it deserved, and in a way [deletion] likely to reduce it to its just value; which was a thing then most to be wished.
your very faithfull & obedient
humble Servant
W. Gloucester [f.135 blank]
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