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<p n="265"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sr.</note>
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Agreeable to Yor request I take the first Opportunity of Adressing Your<lb></lb>
upon the Subject of our Conference and hope it meets you in good<lb></lb>
health and that you find your Farms and Farmers in good plight,<lb></lb>
and partake of the much wish'd for Showers We have been blessd<lb></lb>
with since Monday; which, no doubt, will induccem to pay their<lb></lb>
Rent more Chearfully.</p>
<p n="266">Sir, when Imentioned the £3000 to two or three of the Gentleman<lb></lb>
in the Commission who compose the Committee for repairing the<lb></lb>
Prisons they seen to think £2000. the Value, considering the dead<lb></lb>
Situation and in Case you should be dispossed to treat with the<lb></lb>
Sessions on those Terms, the above Gentlemen will at our next<lb></lb>
County day, recomend the purchasing of it at once other wise they<lb></lb>
will then turn their thoughts to a different spot that now Offers</p>
<p n="267">If you dispose of it to the Sessions you may be Assured that<lb></lb>
Nothing will be done to distress your Tenants but that a full year<lb></lb>
will be given to provide themselves</p>
<p n="268">I have been carefull to observe your Direction with respect to<lb></lb>
privacy, and request the like as to what passes between your self and<lb></lb>
me, in Order to avoid Clame least I may be thought too forward in<lb></lb>
promoting the contract, however benificial I may Apprehend to be for the<lb></lb>
County as well as your self, Whose most Obedient and Obliged Servt.</p>
<p n="269"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50620_geo200">London</rs>
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20th May 1772</p>
<p n="270">To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50620_n270-1">Hammond Cross</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50620_occ63">Esqr</rs>
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to be left at<lb></lb>
the Post house <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50620_geo201">Luton</rs>
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Bedt</p>
<p n="271">I beg leave to Subscribe myself<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50620_n271-56">Ja Jefferson</rs>
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