Item 24 - Letter from Frederick Cornwallis to the Duke of Newcastle, 1773

1 item, paper

Letter from Frederick Cornwallis [Archbishop of Canterbury] to the Duke of Newcastle [Chancellor of the University] asking for help to secure a benefice for the Professor of Divinity and protesting against Barton Wallop becoming Vice-Chancellor

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My Lord,

It was in the light of a public man, & with an intent to serve the University, that I took the liberty to propose, in conjunction with your Grace, to obtain some benefice for Dr Watson that might enable him to live in Cambridge, with a dignity becoming the Professor of Divinity. Your grace has kindly & generously proposed a plan that will well answer the purpose & which I fully approve of. As to your friend at Bury, your Grace may certainly command me. I at the same time, mentioned to your Grace that it would be well if it could be contrived, by way of exchange to prevent Mr Barton Wallop from claiming the Mastership of Magdalene College which he may do next Lady Day and which if he does he will, I think, disgrace both himself & the University. It is worth about £200 a year with a good Lodge. I submit this to your Grace's consideration & am my Lord with the truest regard,

your Grace's most faithful servant Frederick Cornwallis