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 The Library of the Middle Temple. Duke of Portland's papers at Welbeck. The letter is from Henry Carey,— the author of the well known pieces " Sally in Our Alley" and " The Dragon of Wantley," and ancestor of Edmund Kean,— to the first Earl of Ox-

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Sunday, the 7th July, 1717,' written in margin by Lord Oxford], when your Lordship came to the chapel at Lincoln's Inn, it being the last Sunday to Trinity term and the first after your late signal deliverance from the hands of

ORIEL WINDOW OF THE LIBRARY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.

ford. It is dated in the year 171 7, and con tains a recital of the wrongs which Carey had sustained — or thought he had — at the hands of the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn and the Middle Temple. It happened on this wise. We give it in Carey's own words : "Upon the 2d June, 17 17, last ['It was

your enemies.' I being at that time clerk of the said Chapel, set the 124th Psalm,2 as it is in the new version of Tate and Brady : 1 Lord Oxford had been sent to the Tower on suspicion of connection with the rebellion of 171 5. 2 " If the Lord had not been on our side when men rose up against us, then had they swallowed us up quick, .... our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers." etc.