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Having obtained the First Premium for a Design
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I shall esteem
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if you will present my most grateful
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acknowledgements to the Gentlemen in the Commission who have
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honoured me with so Flattering a Division.
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As upon Enquiry I understand that the Gentlemen have
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Jacob Lerour
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at their Architect, for carrying
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their Designs into execution; I feel myself restrained from
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an application for that Office, which the decision in my favour
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might otherwise have warranted.
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Having been much conferred for
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in the forming my
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Design I was Necessesated deliver the original sketches; and
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precluded the possibility of retaining any copy other f the Plans
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on Description should it therefore he consonant with the indulgence
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of the Magistrates, to grant my permission to obtain a Copy
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of them I shall feel myself under an addition at obligation
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to that already conferred on
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Sir
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Your most obedt & Humble Servt.
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T Hurst
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Jany. 13th. 1785
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