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<p n="459"> <rs type="date" id="LMTHLB55001_date42">21 Novr. 1732</rs>
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<p n="460">Sr<lb></lb>
You being near <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55001_geo216">Cherry Hinton</rs>
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(which is 2 little<lb></lb>
Miles from <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55001_geo217">Cambridge</rs>
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) the Gent. of the Grand Comittee desires<lb></lb>
you will be so good as to speak with Mr Serocold who is the<lb></lb>
present High Sheriff and Lives at Hinton and learn<lb></lb>
of him in the best manner you can the true condition<lb></lb>
& Circumstances of the Hospl. Estate there, which he has<lb></lb>
long held under the late <rs type="occupation" id="LMTHLB55001_occ50">Sr</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMTHLB55001_n460-1">Wm Willys</rs>
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and his family<lb></lb>
who have been the Lesses from the Hospl.</p>
<p n="461">That you may be the better informed of the reason<lb></lb>
of giving you this trouble and the more readily<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
introduce your enquiry Inclose a letter to Mr. Serocold<lb></lb>
and send it open for your perusal (which you will<lb></lb>
please to Seal or give it him open as you shall<lb></lb>
think most proper) you will see by the Letter that<lb></lb>
a principal matter to ask after is a Sheep walk<lb></lb>
concerning which Mr Serocold has not given Such<lb></lb>
an Account in his Letters to me as might be<lb></lb>
reasonably expected and the Governors are told<lb></lb>
it is of much greater Value that he seems to<lb></lb>
acknowledge. He is a Gent, of Good Sense and<lb></lb>
fortune (as most probably you may know, and<lb></lb>
when you come to talk with him til like he may<lb></lb>
give a fuller Account of things than he cares to do<lb></lb>
by Letter</p>
<p n="462">The Apology I am to make to you</p>
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