Letter 3668

[fol. 205] Honored & dear Sr. I received yours. I have not been unmindful of observing the superfice & the bowels too of the earth, since I came into the country. & have collected a good deal in relation to a theory thereof, & a confirmation of what I advancd in the beginning of my Itinerary, of a visible proof of the earths rotation on its axis from view of its surface. but you know well Sr. there is nought to be done by way of publication unless one be in town. I design to be there 2 months every year when I get any preferment in the church. for then I shall abandon practise. for now tho’ I have all the business within 10 miles round & more which you will allow to be fatigue enough. I assure you I dont make above £50 pound of it. I desire to know if you have in your collection a coyn of Claudius the reverse Ceres august, a modius or the like relating to corn. I have one, on which I have wrote a dissertation showing it to belong to the famin in Claudius’s time mentiond by St Luke Acts XI. At this time the living of Allhallows in Stanford is near vacant, the incumbent Mr Rogers is in the last Stadium of a dropsy, & cannot live a quarter of a year, his worth was near £150 pound. I should be well pleasd to have it. I guess there will be great application, it is in the gift of the Crown. I beg Dear Sr. Hans you will exert your interest which I know is very great, in my favor. I guess the only way to secure it, is to be in time enough. I dare say you will be deny’d nothing either of the Court or Courtiers. I design to come up [fol. 204] to town in a very little time, but would have you speak first to present others. I shall watch the opportunity as nicely as is in my power. I am with my heartyest prayers for your health Dear Sr Your most obliged & most obedient servant Wm. Stukeley Grantham Sep. 24. 1729.