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Sr:
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I am to acknowledge the favour of yours of the
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6th: of
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, which I should have done sooner, were it not that I have been pretty
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much in the Country. I desire you'll present my hearty Service to my
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Brethren on the Bench; & tell them I should most willingly accept their
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Invitation, & take a Dinner with them on the
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10th: instant
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, had it
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not been attended with a Demand, which I must needs think very
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improper, & I believe without a President
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I will very freely aquaint you with the reasons that induced
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me & the late
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: Gardner to grant Gill of
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Twickenham
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a Licence
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which were because we apprehended him to be a very proper man
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to be licenced; & that the Law gave us a discretionary Authority
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to grant Licences to proper persons. I cannot see but that we
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have exercised that Authority according to Law: & therefore don't
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think I am very handsomely used in being served with a Writing in the
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nature of a Summons to demand before a Publick Assembly the
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motives that induced me to grant the Licence.
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You will excuse me Sr. when I till you that these are my
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Sentiments; as they were of Coll: Gardner to. I am
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2 July 1729.
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Sr:
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Your very hble Servt:
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