I hope I shall hear from you oftener than I have done for some months past: for no friend you have has more respect for you, than your most humble servant,
FROM BISHOP ATTERBURY.
MY gout kept me so long a prisoner at Westminster this winter, that I have fixed at Bromley this spring much sooner than ever I yet did, for which reason my meeting with Dr. Younger will be more difficult, than it would be, had I been still at the deanery[3].
The best (or rather the worst) is, that I believe he can say nothing to you upon the matter about which you write, which will please you. His deanery[4] is of the old foundation, and in all such foundations the deans have no extraordinary power or privilege, and are nothing more than residentiaries, with a peculiar corps belonging to them as deans; the first of the chapter, but such, whose presence is
- ↑ Her grace's daughter.
- ↑ Bromley in Kent, where the bishops of Rochester have an episcopal palace.
- ↑ Of Westminster, which has long been connected with the bishoprick of Rochester.
- ↑ Of Salisbury.
