Lacock Wedny Nov.
My Dear Constance
I was very glad to receive the Card which Ela posted at Carlisle. Your letter from Cheltenham arrived some hours sooner, with the bad news of Goodwin’s illness – I wrote you word I thought him looking very ill the morning he left Lacock – It is a satisfaction to hear that Dr Moir was kind and attentive. Mr Roach is now quite well as he likes cold weather. He did not go to Town, but corresponded with his friend the Physician, who made some alteration in Mr Crisp’s prescription. He is going to meet the Bishop at Bristol on Saturday for the purpose of being instituted. He must kneel and do homage to the Bishop and take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. On Monday following he is to be inducted by a brother Clergyman, I suppose Mr Pim of Corsham That I understand does not take ten minutes – I imagine it originally meant, in the case of a stranger, that one of the Clergy presented him to the Parish and vouched for his identity. On the Sunday next following, 4 December he is to read himself in. The Parish meeting went off very amiably They agreed to reduce the services to two, without a dissentient voice. They were equally unanimous in saying that they wished to drop the afternoon service and retain the ½ past 6 oclock; which therefore was adopted. I hope Sir John’s family will not be much inconvenienced. Mr Roach has returned the Bishops book, shall I send it by Book post?
Yours afftly
Henry
He expected to have to pay the Archbishop of Canterbury’s people £10 for examining and certifying his papers – When the bill came, he was delighted to find that the charge was 10 Shillings –