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SIR,

KEEP only the last book, which I shall have gone through before night. The rest I send you, with the very few observations I made upon them, which yet were as many as I could see any occasion for; though, I do assure you, I read with the same strictness and ill nature as in the former part.

THO. HANMER.

Indorsed, 'Received about May, 1713.'

MY LORD,

HAD the honour of a letter from your grace, the 18th instant, from Chester. I was confidently told, about three weeks ago, that your grace was expected every day at the Bath; and you will find a letter there as old as that, with a requisition in favour of Dr. Parnell, who, by his own merit, is in the esteem of the chief ministers here. I am very sensible, that the loss your grace has suffered in the removal of Dr. Sterne, will never be made up by me, upon a great many accounts: however, I shall not yield to him in respect and veneration for your grace's  racter