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