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 RADCLIFFE. 137 mucli, without any token of despondency, or pu- sillanimity, in the extremest difficulties. To such as these, I beg of your Lordship, that the money I have drawn for, in the name of Frajicis Andrews^ may be distributed, and in such portions as are suitable to their respective characters, and the de- mands of their families. " Not that I would prescribe to a judgment so unerring as your Lordship's, in the exercise of an office which you have been always famed for the discharge of, with the greatest exactness ; but would remind your Lordship, that there are men in the world, who, by an appearance of sanctity, very often impose upon such as are really pos- sessed of it. The very nature of these charities, considering how obnoxious the gentlemen, whom they are bestowed on, are to the present admini- stration, requires secrecy as to the names of the donors, yet, if it be thought necessary, for the better satisfaction of those whom they are given to, I to set them down in a list, with the detail of their j respective contributors, it will be an act of friend- ship in the good Bishop of Rochester, upon many jl considerations, relating to my employ, and other- wise, to make use of that which I have drawn j the bills in, rather than the name of, " My good Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient " And most devoted servant, " John Radcliffe. " N. B. The bills before mentioned are for 300/., and drawn upon Mr. Waldgrave, goldsmith, in Russel Street, Covent Garden."