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I leave it to the Bath physicians to refute this calumny againstKing Bladud.

On my return from Bath to Cambridge, my physicians abso-lutely insisted on my never more presiding in the Divinity schools.I offered a grace to the Senate, appointing Doctor Kipling mydeputy; this grace was passed, nem. diss., May 26th, 1787, withmany expressions, of the most flattering kind, from all the leadingmembers of the Senate, regretting the occasion of its being ne-cessary. Doctor Kipling had offered his services to me as a deputywhen I was made a bishop; but having determined never toappoint a deputy, whilst my health would permit me to performthe duty of my office, I had at that time declined his courtesy;I now accepted it, and gave him a stipend of 200/. at first,and soon after of 250/. a year, and latterly of more than two-thirds of what the Professorship was worth, when it came into myhands.

I concluded my speech at the following Commencement witha kind of farewell address to the University, which then had, andstill has, my warmest wishes for its prosperity :—

“ Habetis, auditores spectatissimi, quod in hac temporis brevitate etangustia de gravissima quastione proferre potui; pauca de meipsodicenda restant. Oratorem profecto ra trsuvrov balbutientem Atticcefastidiunt aures; me tamen de meis rebus breviter loquentem benigneexaudiatis rogo ; atque hoc humanitatis nestrce indicium eo jidentiusexpecto, quod vestra negotia nostris quodammodo impUcata arbi-trabamini.