As far back as October 1749, he reminds Newcastle in
a letter that the Minister had asked him when made
archbishop, to keep up useful correspondence with the
Protestant Churches abroad. The archbishop says that
he has done this in general, and recommended the poor
Hungarians for relief .^

Among the papers of Lewis Majendie, Esq. of
Hedingham, is a folio volume containing, under the years
1753 and 1754, letters from Herring to the squire of
Hedingham of that day, on the subject of an applica-
tion by the persecuted and oppressed Hungarians for
aid, pecuniary and otherwise.*

In a letter, dated the 22nd September 1754, Herring
says he has received a representation of their case which
he promises to consider, and if necessary to amend :
he would ask the Bench of Bishops to help, but they are
all in the country, so that nothing effectual can be done
for the Hungarians till winter. In December 1754,
Herring writes again to Majendie that he is much con-
cerned about the poor Hungarians. " The Bench,"
he says, " are pressed upon these applications from
abroad and many others at home beyond their abilities " ;
but, later, Herring sends his own and the bishops'

• Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, ii. 567.
"Newcastle Corr., addl. MSS, Brit. Mus., 32719, f. 261.
» See Fifth Report of Historical MSS Comtn., App. p. 322.
214 THOMAS HERRING [1747-

subscriptions and approves collections at Oxford and
Cambridge for the suffering University at Debritzen.
In the early summer of 1753, Herring, while at
Lambeth, was seized with a violent " pleuretic " fever.
