his word; for the other fifty must go in a curate and vifitation-charges, and poxes, proxies I mean. If you are under the Bishop of Cork *, he is a capricious gentleman: but you must flatter him monftroufly, upon his learning and his writings; that you have read his book against Toland a hundred times, and his fermons (if he has printed any) have been always your model, &c. Be not disappointed, if your living does not answer the fum. Get letters of recommendation to the Bishop and principal clergy, and to your neighbouring parfon or parfons particularly. I often advised you to get fome knowledge of tythes and church-livings. You must learn the extent of your parish, the general quantity of arable land and pafture in your parish, the common rate of tythes, for an acre of the feveral forts of corn, and of fleeces and lambs, and to fee whether you have any glebe. Pray act like a man of this world. I doubt, being fo far off, you must not let your living, as I do, to the feveral farmers, but to one man: but, by all means, do not now let it for more than one year, till you are furely apprifed of the real worth; and even then, never let it for above three. Pray take my advice for once, and be very bufy while you are there. It is one good circumftance, that you got fuch a living in a convenient time, and just when tythes are fit to be let; only wool and lamb are due in fpring, or perhaps belong to the late incumbent. You may learn all on the fpot, and your neighbouring parfons may be very ufeful, if they please; but do not let them be your tenants. Advife with Archdeacon Wall, but do not follow him in all things. Take care of the principal 'fquire, or 'fquires; they will all tell you the worst of your living; fo will the proctors and tythe-jobbers; but you will pick out truth from among them. Pray, fhew yourself a man of abilities. After all, I am but a weak brother myfelf; perhaps fome clergy-in Dublin, who know that country, will further inform you. Mr Townsend Cork will do you any good offices on my account, wit out any letter.Take the oaths heartily to the powers that be, and remember that partyvas not

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Quilca, June 29. 1725. Writ to you yesterday, and faid as many things as I could then think on, and gave it a boy of Kells, who brought me yours. It is trange, that I, and Stella, and Mrs Macfadin, fhould light on the fame thought, to advise you to make a great appearance of temperance while you are abroad. But Mrs Johnfon and I go further, and fay, you must needs obferve all grave forms, for the want of which both you and I have fuffered. On fuppofal that you are under the Bishop of Cork, I fend you a letter inclosed to him, which I defire you will feal. Mrs Johnson put me in mind to caution you not to drink or pledge any health in his company; for you know his weak fide in that matter*. I hope Mr Tickell has not complimented you with what fees are due to him for your patent. I wish you would fay to him, (if he refufes them), that I told you, it was Mr Addison's maxim to excufe no body; for here, fays he, I may have forty friends, whofe fees may be two guineas a-piece; then I lofe eighty guineas, and my friends fave but two a-piece.

I must tell you, Dan Jackfon ruined his living, by huddling over the first year, and then hoping to mend it the next. Therefore pray take all the care you can, to inquire into the value, and set it at the best rate to fubftantial people.

know not whether you are under the Bishop of Cork oro; if not, you may burn the letter.

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He wrote a pamphlet against drinking to the memory of the

expences, no not for fome years to come, much less at prefent, but rather retrench them. You might have lain deftitute till Antichrift came, for any thing you could have got from those you used to treat. Neither let me hear of one rag of better cloaths for your wife or brats, but rather plainer than ever. This is pofitively Stella's advice as well as mine. She fays, now you need not be afhamed to be thought poor.

We compute, you cannot be less than thirty days abfent; and pray do not employ your time in lolling a-bed till noon to read Homer, but mind your business effectually. And we think you ought to have no breaking up this Auguft; but affect to adhere to your school clofer than ever; because you will find, that your ill-wishers will give out, you are now going to quit your school, fince you have got preferment, &c.

PRAY fend me a large bundle of exercises, good as well as bad; for I want fomething to read.

I would have you carry down threee or four fermons, and preach every Sunday at your own church, and be very devout.

I fent you in my last a bill of twenty pound on Mr Worralt; I hope you have received it.

PRAY remember to leave the pamphlet with Worral, and give him directions, unless you have settled it already fome other way. You know it must come out just when the parliament meets

KEEP thofe letters, where I advise you about living, till you have taken advice.

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KEEP very regular hours for the fake of your health and credit; and where-ever you lie a night within twen- . ty miles of your livings, be fure call the family that e- # vening to prayers.

I defire you will wet no commiffion with your old crew, nor with any but those who befriend you, as Mr Tickell, &c.

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LETTER

Dr SWIFT to Lord CARTERET.

My LORD, July 3. 1725. Am obliged to return your Excellency my most humble thanks for your favour to Mr Sheridan, be caufe when I recommended him to you, I received a very gracious answer; and yet I am fenfible that your chief motive to make fome provision for him was, what became a great and good perfon, your diftinguishing him as a man of learning, and one who deferved encouragement, on account of his great diligence and fuccefs in a moft laborious and difficult employment f.

SINCE your Excellency hath had an opportunity, fo early in your government, of gratifying your English dependents by a bishoprick, and the beft deanery in the kingdom t; I cannot but hope, that the clergy of Ireland will have their fhare in your patronage. There is hardly a gentleman in the nation, who hath not a near alliance with fome of that body; and most of them who have fons, ufually breed one of them to the church; altho' they have been of late years much difcouraged, and difcontented, by feeing strangers to the country almost perpetually taken into the greateft ecclefiaftical preferments, and too often under governors very different from your Excellency; the choice of perfons was not to be accounted for either to prudence or justice.

THE misfortune of having bishops perpetually from England, as it muft needs quench the fpirit of emulation among us, to excel in learning and the ftudy of divinity, fo it produceth another great difcouragement, that thofe prelates ufually draw after them, colonies of fons, ne phews, coufins, or old college-companions, to whom the bestow the best preferments in their gift; and thus the young men fent into the church from the university. here, have no better profpect, than to be curates, or fmall county-vicars, for life.

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Ir will become fo excellent a governor as you, a little to moderate this great partiality; wherein, as you will act with justice and reafon, fo you will gain the thanks and prayers of the whole nation, and take away one great cause of univerfal difcontent. For I believe your Excellency will agree, that there is not another kingdom in Europe, where the natives (even thofe defcended from the conquerors) have been treated, as if they were almoft unqualified for any employment, either in church. or ftate.

YOUR Excellency, when I had the honour to attend you, was pleafed to let me name fome clergymen, who are generally understood by their brethren to be the most diftinguished for their learning and piety I remember the perfons were, Dr Delany Dr Ward of the North, Mr Ecklin, Mr Synge of Dublin, and Mr Corbet. They were named by me, without any regard to friendship, having little commerce with most of them, but only to the univerfal character they bear. This was the method I always took with my Lord Oxford, at his own command; who was pleafed to believe I would not be fwayed by any private affections, and confeffed I never deceived him; for I always dealt openly, when I offered any thing in behalf of a friend, which was but feldom ; becaufe, in that cafe, I generally made ufe of the common method at court, to folicit by another.

I fhall fay nothing of the young men among the clergy; of whom the three hopefulleft are faid to be, Mr Stopford, Mr King, and Mr Dobbs, all fellows of the college t; of whom I am only acquainted with the first. But thefe are not likely to be great expectors under your Excellency's adminiftration, according to the ufual period of governors here.

IF I have dealt honeftly, in representing fuch perfons among the clergy as are generally allowed to have the moft merit. I think I have done you a fervice, and I am fure I have made you a great compliment, by diftinguhing you from moft great men I have known thefe thirty years paft; whom I have always obferved to act, as if they never received a true character, nor ha any value

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