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<p n="196">Sir<lb></lb>
I have serv'd you long & faithfully according<lb></lb>
to the best & utmost extent of my poor skill & ability<lb></lb>
& sincerly intend to go on in the Managment of your<lb></lb>
Affairs with the same zeal & Steddynes; but it shall<lb></lb>
be upon this Condition; that you give me security<lb></lb>
for a hundred pound for my past services this I<lb></lb>
mention'd last Week to two of your particular<lb></lb>
Friends & in Consequence thereof, I was in hopes some<lb></lb>
notice woud have been taken of it, other than a<lb></lb>
bare acknowledgement of Services, & declaration of<lb></lb>
a purpose to make me a present: which oblidges me<lb></lb>
to be more explicit, and to desire the Favour of a direct<lb></lb>
answer. If you & your Friends shou'd did like this proposal<lb></lb>
I shall gladly listen to any thing that you may Suggest<lb></lb>
on that head as reasonable to be done, in the present case<lb></lb>
but I expect an immediate Answer & am<lb></lb>
Dr Sr</p>
<p n="197">Yr most Huml Servant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50432_n197-1">Hugh Fraser</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50432_geo245">Inner Temple</rs>
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17th Septr 1753</p>
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