ry who so well deserves of this
place, which, though I have no concern in, nor no acquaintance with his
Lordship, yet one always has a value for a grateful and benevolent mind.

The arms of Joseph Butler, Lord Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul's,
are: A. three covered Cups on Bend S, inter two Bendlets engrailed G.

His Lordship was, on the decease of the late Lord Bishop of Hereford, by
his Majesty appointed Clerk of the Royal Closet; and it is said that he
has also a promise, on the next vacancy, of a translation to the rich See
of Durham, which will be well bestowed on a person of his Lordship's
large and universal benevolence.

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From the same.

Dr. Freeman, speaking of the chapel in the palace at Bristol, told me
that he was mentioning the neatness and elegance of it to Bishop Young at
Therfield, who told him, that however he might admire the decency and
elegance of it, yet upon his waiting, upon some occasion or other, on my
Lord Hardwick, his Lordship spoke to him of it, and asked him whether he
had not a design of pulling down the cross of marble over the Altar,
which he thought was offensive; to which the Bishop replied, that it was
probable that he should not have set it up there, but that he should not
choose to have it said that Bishop Young had pulled down what Bishop
Butler had erected.

STATEMENT CONCERNING THE CHURCH AT KINGSWOOD.

From a MS. in the British Museum. [Add. 9815.]

When the late Lord Bishop of Durham first intended to have a place of
Divine Worship erected in Kings Wood, his Scheme was,--To solicit
Subscriptions for building a Chapel, and to give 400 pounds towards the
Endowment of it, in order to get the like Sum from the Governors of Q.
Ann's Bounty. And he was pleased to lay his Commands upon me to make
Application to persons the most likely to contribute to that good Work.

The report I brought him in Consequence of such Application, was to this
Effect, that they highly approved of the pious and charitable design, but
disliked the particular Scheme of erecting a Chapel of Ease to the Church
of St. Philip and Jacob, as this would not answer the good purposes his
Lordship intended; and therefore proposed a Division of the Parish, and
the Erection of a new Parish and parish Church.

His observations on this Proposal were the following,--That the intended
Chapel in Kings Wood would not have been a Chapel of Ease to Saint Philip
and Jacob, but distinct from i