Yet, as my sonn stands now, I cannot see with
what credit he can be elected; for, being but sixth,
and (as you are pleased to judge) not deserving
that neither, I know not whether he may not go
immediately to Cambridge, as well as one of his
own election went to Oxford this yeare t by your
consent. I will say nothing of my second sonn,

* Dr. John Dolben, then Bishop of Kochester, afterwards of
York. See vol. ix. p. 302.
+ Mr. Malone says, " The person meant was Eobert Morgan,
who was elected with Charles Dryden into the college of West-
minster, in 1680, and is the only one of those then admitted,
who was elected to Oxford in 1682. That circumstance, there-
fore, ascertains the year when this letter was written."



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but that, after you had been pleased .to advise me
to waite on my Lord Bishop for his favour, I found
he might have had the first place, if you had not
opposed it ; and I likewise found at the election,
that, by the pains you had taken with him, he in
some sort deserved it.
