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Agreeable to Yor request I take the first Opportunity of Adressing Your
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upon the Subject of our Conference and hope it meets you in good
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health and that you find your Farms and Farmers in good plight,
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and partake of the much wish'd for Showers We have been blessd
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with since Monday; which, no doubt, will induccem to pay their
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Rent more Chearfully.
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Sir, when Imentioned the £3000 to two or three of the Gentleman
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in the Commission who compose the Committee for repairing the
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Prisons they seen to think £2000. the Value, considering the dead
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Situation and in Case you should be dispossed to treat with the
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Sessions on those Terms, the above Gentlemen will at our next
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County day, recomend the purchasing of it at once other wise they
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will then turn their thoughts to a different spot that now Offers
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If you dispose of it to the Sessions you may be Assured that
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Nothing will be done to distress your Tenants but that a full year
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will be given to provide themselves
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I have been carefull to observe your Direction with respect to
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privacy, and request the like as to what passes between your self and
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me, in Order to avoid Clame least I may be thought too forward in
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promoting the contract, however benificial I may Apprehend to be for the
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County as well as your self, Whose most Obedient and Obliged Servt.
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to be left at
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the Post house
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I beg leave to Subscribe myself
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