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Richard Knight
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The Grand Committee of the Governours of
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being Insisted under the will of Mr.
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David
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Jones
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to Four Houses at
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after the Death of
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David Sparrow
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(the other Lives being all dropt) whose Daughter they are Informed
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you Married have given me Orders to write you this Letter
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The said Sparrow having been out of England above
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30 years and not heard of since (to the Knowledge of the
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Governours) the Presumption is Strong that he is dead And
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unless you give them such an Account of him as shall be
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Sufficient to Induce a Probability that he is yet living They
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are determined to take such remedy as shall be thought
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Proper to do themselves Justice and bring those Persons to
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an Account for the Rents & Profits, who have in this unfair
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Manner kept the Governours, out of the Possession of their
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EstateYour immediate Answer is expected to
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St. Thomas's Hospl.
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12 Novr. 1751.
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To
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Mr.
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Richard Knight
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Shipwright
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in
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Yr. humble Servt.
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Morgan Morse
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Clerk
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to
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St. Thomas's Hospital
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12 Novr. 1751
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Medm.
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Mr. Rudds Letter of last Month relating to yr. Request of
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leave to fell two or three Pollards for Gate Posts & repairing the Plough
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& Carts has been laid before the Gentlemen who desire to know if you
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have pitch'd upon my particulars Pollards and what part or Field
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of the Farme they stand in and of what Dimensions that they may
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he the better enabled to judge if they are proper for that are and
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to give Directions about it
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To Mrs. Crosier at Pinner Middsex
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J: Wright
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