Letter 2048

[fol. 101] My dear Friend Upm’r Oct. 3. 1715 I have just prepared yours & Mr Rays Lrs for publica[ti]on. Amongst wch meeting with one or more about ye friendly service you did him wth the AB of Cant. Put me in mind of your Interest wch his present Grace, wch you may make exceedingly for my profit & therefore I beg another addition to yr former favours, wch is to put him in mind of me. When I last was with him he told me, That he had a great kindness for me, & intended to do some thing wch should be for the good of my self & family, &c. I doubt not but he meant to give or procure me some Dignity (for another Living I would not take, so as to make me a Plu- ralist, wch I have ever sampled) but any other Preferment, except yt of a Bishop I should be glad of, to enable me to make a competent provision for my family, &c, wch as matters stand with me, I am not likely, to make. If you alone, or some other potent friend wch you should have occasion to visit Lambeth, I hope you will do me the favour to recommend me wth some earnestness to his Grace, as I know you have already done, wch makes me the bolder wth you now, wch I hope you will excuse. Since I saw you, I was all over your Farm at Orset, & found every thing well about the House and Lands, only a few Trees a li lower boughs of ye Trees cut, wch no doubt was done by the Poor, wch is not to be prevented. Wth great respect & affection I am Dear Sr Your most obliged humble servt Wm Derham My Wife desires your acceptance of her service.