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1774] To (he Rev. William Mason 65

1566. To THE BEY. WILLIAM COLE.

DEAE SIB, Strawberry Hill, Oct. 11, 1774.

I answer yours immediately, as one pays a shilling to
clench, a bargain, when one suspects the seller. I accept
your visit in the last week of this month, and will prosecute
you if you do not execute.

I have nothing to say about elections, but that I con-
gratulate myself every time I feel I have nothing to do
with them. By my nephew's strange conduct about his
boroughs, and by many other reasons, I doubt whether
he is so well as he seemed to Dr. Bernardiston-—it is
a subject I do not love to talk on, but I know I tremble
every time the bell rings at my gate at an unusual hour.

Have you seen Mr. Granger's Supplement¹? Methinks
it grows too diffuse. I have hinted to him that fewer
panegyrics from funeral sermons would not hurt it.
Adieu 1 Yours ever,

H. W.

1567. To THE BEY. WILLIAM MASON.

I HAVE not imitated your silence from irony, but con-
venience,—not from want of forgiveness, but of matter. In
a time of general elections I have no more ideas than in
Newmarket season, when everybody is talking of matches
and bets. I do not know who has been distanced, or
thrown, or won a cup. I have only observed in the papers,
that Lord John has been hard run, though he has got the
plate *; and as the race was at York, I suppose you was on
the course. The new senate, they tell me, will be a curious

LETTER 1566.—•* To Ms JBfograpM- Notes and Queries, April 14,1900.)

col History. 1 Lord John Cavendish was re-

LETTER 1567—Misplaced by C. turned as member for the City of

amongst letters of Sept, 1774. (See York on Oct. 10, 1774.

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	1774] To (he Rev. William Mason 65 1566. To THE BEY. WILLIAM COLE. DEAE SIB, Strawberry Hill, Oct. 11, 1774. I answer yours immediately, as one pays a shilling to clench, a bargain, when one suspects the seller. I accept your visit in the last week of this month, and will prosecute you if you do not execute. I have nothing to say about elections, but that I con- gratulate myself every time I feel I have nothing to do with them. By my nephew's strange conduct about his boroughs, and by many other reasons, I doubt whether he is so well as he seemed to Dr. Bernardiston-—it is a subject I do not love to talk on, but I know I tremble every time the bell rings at my gate at an unusual hour. Have you seen Mr. Granger's Supplement¹? Methinks it grows too diffuse. I have hinted to him that fewer panegyrics from funeral sermons would not hurt it. Adieu 1 Yours ever, H. W. 1567. To THE BEY. WILLIAM MASON. I HAVE not imitated your silence from irony, but con- venience,—not from want of forgiveness, but of matter. In a time of general elections I have no more ideas than in Newmarket season, when everybody is talking of matches and bets. I do not know who has been distanced, or thrown, or won a cup. I have only observed in the papers, that Lord John has been hard run, though he has got the plate ; and as the race was at York, I suppose you was on the course. The new senate, they tell me, will be a curious LETTER 1566.—• To Ms JBfograpM- Notes and Queries, April 14,1900.) col History. 1 Lord John Cavendish was re- LETTER 1567—Misplaced by C. turned as member for the City of amongst letters of Sept, 1774. (See York on Oct. 10, 1774.

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