a Person of good Sense and some Learning, of a very regular
Life and obliging Conversation: He heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows
that he is very much in the old Knight's Esteem, so that he lives in the
Family rather as a Relation than a Dependent.

I have observed in several of my Papers, that my Friend Sir Roger,
amidst all his good Qualities, is something of an Humourist; and that
his Virtues, as well as Imperfections, are as it were tinged by a
certain Extravagance, which makes them particularly _his_, and
distinguishes them from those of other Men. This Cast of Mind, as it is
generally very innocent in it self, so it renders his Conversation
highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same Degree of Sense and
Virtue would appear in their common and ordinary Colours. As I was
walking with him last Night, he asked me how I liked the good Man whom I
have just now mentioned? and without staying for my Answer told me, That
he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own Table;
for which Reason he desired a particular Friend of his at the University
to find him out a Clergyman rather of plain Sense than much Learning, of
a good Aspect, a clear Voice, a sociable Temper, and, if possible, a Man
that understood a little of Back-Gammon. My Friend, says Sir Roger,
found me out this Gentleman, who, besides the Endowments required of
him, is, they tell me, a good Scholar, tho' he does not show it. I have
given him the Parsonage of the Parish; and because I know his Value have
settled upon him a good Annuity for Life. If he outlives me, he shall
find that he was higher in my Esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He
has now been with me thirty Years; and tho' he does not know I have
taken Notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for
himself, tho' he is every Day soliciting me for something in behalf of
one or other of my Tenants his Parishioners. There has not been a
Law-suit in the Parish since he has liv'd among them: If any Dispute
arises they apply themselves to him for the Decision, if they do not
acquiesce in his Judgment, which I think never happened above once or
twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made
him a Present of all the good Sermons which have been printed in
_English_, and only begg'd of him that every _Sunday_ he would pronounce
one of them in the Pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into such a
Series, that they follow one another natura