of three vibrations, the second in 6, & the 3d in nine, so that the ratio of the times of descent was as the lengths of the planes, & so served the purpose I then proposed, & intended. At the same time it is evident that if there had been no friction, the ball should have descended in each in two-thirds of the time mentioned just before, & consequently the retardation occasioned by the friction is in these several planes just as the space. The former experiment shews that the same ratio obtains in the horizontall plane as well as on the inclined. If severall experiments of this nature were accurately performed on instruments contrived & made with more nicety, & with balls or other bodys of different magnitudes & densitys, I am persuaded some useful light might be derived from hence, to shew the proportion & nature of friction in all such cases as these, but my time & circumstances will not at present allow me to pursue the enquiry. I am, yours, &c., J. HORSELEY. LXVIII. R. GALE TO REV. DR. STUKELEY."-H. F. ST. J. Dear Doctor, Lond., May 11th, 1733. As Yesterday Mr. Collins delivered me your answer to Dr. Wallis's letter, which I should have delivered to Dr. Mortimer that afternoon had not the Society been adjourned till after the holydays. At the first meeting I shall present it, but much question if it will obtain a reading or not, fearing your reflections upon the doctor's usage of you may be thought too severe. Dr. Wallis has not desired his letters to be registered, I believe it will not be judged proper to register your reply to it, however if you desire it, I will insist upon its being entred in our archives, but desire to know if you would have the original returned you, for as I do not doubt your having a copy of it, I don't see what occasion there will be for your having this again, especially after it is in the register, where any member may have a sight of it. I am sure Dr. Mortimer would not willingly disoblige you. I hope to see the north next August or September, & I spend a day at Stanford, but my journeys are allways in such a hurry that I cannot indulge myself in that pleasure for a week, I am very sure. I am glad you have gott such a strong party as the ladys, & the soldiery, on your side, & hope you will keep the majority, though the election is so remote. People in this town are allmost as mad as ever, though the countrey seems to come to itself again. Alderman Ber[na]rd presented to the Parliament yesterday a petition from New England, which was a most scandalous libell against the king & privy council. It was rejected with much indignation, & the alderman would probably have been severely censured, had it not been at this time thought more adviseable to heal than exasperate. I wonder how you can gett time, in so much tumult & noise, to write 30 sheets upon any subject. I do assure you it is now near ten at night, & it is as much as I have been able to do to read over the Ode you have commented, & to gett this letter scribbled to send with the Yule treatise, which you may return when leisure & convenience give you leave to, dear Doctor, Your most faithfull humble servant, R. GALE. LXIX. R. GALE "TO THE REV. DR. STUKELEY, AT STANFORD IN LINCOLNSHIRE."-H. F. ST. J. Dear Sir, Lond., Novb. the 17th, 1733. I was in great hopes of having your good company at Cottenham, & then to London. My stay in the countrey was but 7 days, & those intirely spent at home. We catcht a carp in my own pond, little inferior to that which you drew the effigies of from Dr. Knight's, in size, but infinitely superior in goodnesse. Our gayety, that was to have been at this time, is vastly overclouded with the Prince of Orange's illnesse,23 which prevented 23 The Prince of Orange arrived in England November 7th, 1733, but in consequence of his being taken ill, his marriage with the Princess Royal, daughter of George II., was postponed. The marriage took place in the French Chapel, St. James's, March 14th, 1734. The House of Commons voted £80,000 arising from the sale of lands at St. Christopher's, as a marriage portion for the princess. W. STUKELEY AND OTHERS. 273 the wedding, now deferred sine die. He has an intermitting feavor which, by the use of the bark, is much abated; but he is so exceeding weak, that should he recover, it will not be thought proper to celebrate his nuptialls till after Christmasse. I hear, however, there has been mighty doings at Stanford, Lord E[xeter's] friends having distinguished themselves much last Monday night by orange cockades, bonfires, & all other marks of loyalty, & sincere affection to the royall family. I wish the person that brought this news was not mistaken as to the party that gave these demonstrations of joy. I hope you will be time enough to partake of them here, & that nothing will crosse your January journey to this town. I would have delivered your letter last night myself to my Lord Chancellor, but when I went he was hearing causes, so left it for him. He will have but a short time to dispose of benefices, since it is certain he will give up the seals at the end of this term, if not sooner. That he would do it is the wish of all his friends, since an entire recesse from busynesse will be the onely means to prolong his days; you cannot conceive how much both his inward & outward man are exhausted since you saw him. I am glad to hear I am glad to hear you hold your ground, & hope you will gain more. All our best services attend your good lady & family, of which I congratulate the increase, though you never acquainted me with it being of the feminine gender, as I suppose. I am, dear Doctor, Your most faithfull humble servant, R. GALE. Sir H. Sloan is one of the physicians that attends the prince. He told me this evening that he had had a pretty good night the last, & no feavor for above 30 hours. LXX. DR. STUKELEY "TO THE REV. MR. AMBROSE PIMLOW, AT GREAT DUNHAM, NORFOLK."-H. F. ST. J. doing somewhat for our master London, Mar. 9, 1733-4. son, whom I never saw, nor heard of, nor received your letter, as you might well S judge by my last. I can't take it kindly that you thus condemn me, before tryed. This is the zeal of a high churchman, which runs through your whole letter. PENSIONS & PLACES, wrote in capitals to render it more formidable, shows what political papers you read. I only desire to know on what side the Roman Catholics push their interest in Norfolk? Answer, on the high church side. We need not seek whither you are driving. Where must the Church of England find safety & protection but in a protestant prince, who is the head & guardian of the church, & has shown by actions and words that he will be so. My friend, what are pensions & places, but wages? Doe you serve your livings the worse because you receive the tythes & offerings? And now I mention living, who got you that of Lord Lovel's, but your humble servant? Did not I sollicite Mr. Bertie & Sir Jo. Newton, & get done all your instruments for you? I have a right then to ask your vote, as well as your patron. Don't add to the number of those clergymen whose ingratitude to their patrons has done infinitely more mischief to religion than Tind[all]' or Coll[in]s. Don't prefer the empty notion of party, the imaginary whimsys of pension & place to the substantial duty of gratitude. I insist on it that you oblige your patron, & hope you will excuse the freedom I have used here from the high obligation I think every clergyman lyes under to be on the side of the government, especially when his patron is on the same side. 1 Matthew Tindal, born at Beer-Ferris, Devon, c. 1657; died in London 1733. Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. Embraced the Roman Catholic faith in the reign of James II., but professed himself a Protestant, and took the oaths at the Revolution. In 1706 he published “The Rights of the Christian Church," the design of which was to show the inutility of the clergy. Dr. Hickes, who replied to this book, relates that the author said “he was writing a book which would make the clergy mad." He also wrote "Christianity as old as the Creation," in 1730, a deistical work which was answered by Dr. John Leland, Dr. James Foster, and others, in 1732.-See Beeton, and Lowndes' Bibliog. Man.. vol. v., 2686. Anthony Collins, born 1676; died 1729. He wrote "Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a sect called Free-thinking," 1713, which was answered by Dr. Bentley; also "A Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion," 1724. His books are more distin guished for ingenuity and technical skill in reasoning, than for profundity of thought or fairness of argument.-Beeton, p. 284, and Lowndes' Bibliog. Man., vol. i., p. 497. I think better things of you than that you are fixt in such reso- WM. STUKELEY. [The above letter has this endorsement :-" Rev. Dr. Stukely's Answer to my Letter about our Election,3 Mar. 9, 1733."] LXXI. BEAUPRE BELL, JUNIOR, TO REV. DR. STUKELEY.— H. F. ST. J. Dear Sir, 1733-4. ▲n acquaintance of mine, publishing an History of Norfolk,* intencs to inrich my copy with what prints, &c., I can any ways procure relating to it; if you have any odd prints on that county, shall be very thankful for them, as the seal of Lynn, head of Sir H. Spelman, &c., which I have indeed already in your Itin. Curiosum, but cannot think of making one book imperfect to inprove another. The enclosed Titus, though much defaced, may not be unaccptable from Your most obliged humble servant, B. BELL, JUN. LEXII. R. GALE "TO REV. DR. STUKELEY, AT STANFORD, IN LINCOLNSHIRE."-H. F. ST. J. Dar Sir, London, Aug. the 31st, 1734. Your recommendations of Mr. Gill for a footwalk shall cetainly have their due weight when I can serve him, & have put him down in my book for that purpose. This was the election to the fourth Septennial Parliament, which octrred in 1734. The first meeting was Jan. 14th. 1734-5, when Arthur Orlow, Esq., Treasurer of the Navy, was elected Speaker. Blomefield's History of Norfolk. Vide Diary, p. 88 n. |