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<p n="398"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sir</note>
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Kerby Street 14 Apl. 1760</p>
<p n="399">I was unwilling to take up too much of year Time, when I<lb></lb>
waited on you in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo245">Castle Yard</rs>
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, and therefore the underwritten is<lb></lb>
now offer'd to your Consideration by</p>
<p n="400"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n400-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ100">Esqr</rs>
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<p n="401">Sir<lb></lb>
Your most obedt Servt<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n401-1">Tho. Pingo</rs>
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<p n="402">If it Should be urg'd that in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo246">St Andrews Parish</rs>
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they have no Substitute<lb></lb>
I answer that Mr Cook of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo247">Hatton Garden</rs>
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had a Substitute; and<lb></lb>
in the neighbouring Parishes of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo248">St Sepulchre</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo249">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo250">Islington</rs>
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it is every Day the Practice</p>
<p n="403">Besides if my Eyes were not weak I am so circumstanc'd in Trade<lb></lb>
that I must lose all my Business or neglect the Duties of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ101">Headborough</rs>
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<p n="404">An Engraver to the Exists Office the Business of making Hide:<lb></lb>
Stamps, Call in be Linnen. Paper & Chos<obscured></obscured>
for the Security of the Revenue must not be neglected</p>
<p n="405">As Engraver to the Gold Smith's this Company for whom I make<lb></lb>
the Punctus with which they Strike the Hall-Mark The Bussness<lb></lb>
there is vastly increas'd Since the late Plate Acts has made it<lb></lb>
a capital Offence to counterfeit the Same; and that Business<lb></lb>
must be done on the Shortest Notice (for their Punches often bread)<lb></lb>
otherwise all would be in Confusion at the Hall, and many<lb></lb>
Plate manufacturers Stand Still</p>
<p n="406">Besides am now complay'd, by Lord Bute, in graving a Pair of Dies<lb></lb>
to Strike a large Medal of the Prince of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo251">Wales</rs>
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's Head on one Side;<lb></lb>
and on the other are Five Figures, which work is done with the<lb></lb>
Knowledge of the Prince and requires<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
great Care and<lb></lb>
Nicety om executing the Same; And is also in great Hast as<lb></lb>
the Royal Family are frequently enquiring what progress is made</p>
<p n="407">There is no Possibility of getting any Assistance in the<lb></lb>
above Branches of Engraving To that I am under a Necessity<lb></lb>
of working as long as my Eyes will permit</p>
<p n="408">If it Should be urged that I have used Evasions in Shewing<lb></lb>
them a Certificate, or Tybarn Ticket, and pretended the Same has<lb></lb>
to be assign'd over to me-I ansr. that the Same was actually agreed<lb></lb>
Son, but the Party, to whom it belongd, by Some Management<lb></lb>
refused to assign the same without an advance there To<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
may sd added-"That it is not my Service but my Fine that is<lb></lb>
wanted, by the Court Leet Jurors for the Purpose of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo252">Luxury</rs>
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