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438 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,

M. ORMOND.

GOOD MR. DEAN,

Y 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.

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 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 not