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436 ADDITIONAL GRANT CORRESPONDENCE. [1764.
may remimber at this season we have a kind of open house, made up of a motly variaty, the
disagreeableness of which is easier to supose then discribe.
I thought to write you last post, but cou'd not get time, so this being the first day of
the new year, I again send you both my best wishes.
Your papa has been much concerned with the melancholie story I wrote you in my last,
and has had in this cold weather some very fatigueing jurnies, etc., but has taken care to
avoid seeing or having any concern with the unhapie wretch himself. Three procunitions
have been taken, but none of them turns out the lest favourable for him, as it is aparent
from the whole that only one shote was fired, and no fair play in the matter. Leithhall
dyed of the wownd this day sevenight, and your papa came from the interment yesterday, in
most dreadful weather.
We are yet in the dark as to what effect the law may have as to M.'s effects, or how
far his unfortunate wife and children will be sufferers in that respect.
I hope by this time the man is off the country, for it wou'd be but disagreeable if he
were catched ; and great search is made for him.
You are quit exact in just sending my own four covers, and no more. I thought the hint
wou'd have procured me a dozen ; but, since you gruge a peniworth of paper so much, I have
sent half a dozen more for you. The compliments of all in this house are presented you
both, my dear Jeany. Adieu.
To Mrs. Grant.
519. The Rev. Robert Darly Waddilove to Mr. Grant of Grant — The political situation
in Cambridge University.
Cambridge, November 4, 1764, Sunday.
Read it thro'.
My dear Grant, — If you ever read a newspaper, perhaps you may have a curiosity to know
what the bustle of party is stirring up here again. As my tale has no end yet, I can't make
my beginning there, but must follow a regular course, and you shall have as true and
faithful an account as a person who is not here to do the dirty work of party can give.
I need not remind you of the line of division that was drawn between us on the 30th
of March last. The effects of that day has shewn itself among the resident members here
on many occasions, and will long be visible, I believe. On the 1 2th of October, the Caput
Senatus is annually chosen by the heads of houses and the doctors. The method is for
the Vice-Chancellor to produce a list of five, and each of the proctors the same number. Out
of these fifteen then five are chosen, who, with the V.-C. of the ensueing year, constitute the
Caput for that year. (The V.-C.'s list used generally to be taken as matter of course.) But
Lord S., whose zeal to serve this University knows no bounds, foreseeing the necessity of