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<p n="736">Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMTHLB55002_n736-1">Richard Knight</rs>
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The Grand Committee of the Governours of <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55002_geo320">St. Thomas's<lb></lb>
Hospital in Southwark</rs>
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being Insisted under the will of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMTHLB55002_n736-2">David<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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to Four Houses at <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55002_geo321">Gosport</rs>
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after the Death of <rs type="persName" id="LMTHLB55002_n736-3">David Sparrow</rs>
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<lb></lb>
(the other Lives being all dropt) whose Daughter they are Informed<lb></lb>
you Married have given me Orders to write you this Letter</p>
<p n="737">The said Sparrow having been out of England above<lb></lb>
30 years and not heard of since (to the Knowledge of the<lb></lb>
Governours) the Presumption is Strong that he is dead And<lb></lb>
unless you give them such an Account of him as shall be<lb></lb>
Sufficient to Induce a Probability that he is yet living They<lb></lb>
are determined to take such remedy as shall be thought<lb></lb>
Proper to do themselves Justice and bring those Persons to<lb></lb>
an Account for the Rents & Profits, who have in this unfair<lb></lb>
Manner kept the Governours, out of the Possession of their<lb></lb>
EstateYour immediate Answer is expected to</p>
<p n="738"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55002_geo322">St. Thomas's Hospl.<lb></lb>
Southwark</rs>
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<lb></lb>
12 Novr. 1751.</p>
<p n="739">To<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMTHLB55002_n739-1">Richard Knight</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMTHLB55002_occ76">Shipwright</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55002_geo323">Portsmouth Yard</rs>
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<p n="740">Yr. humble Servt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMTHLB55002_n740-1">Morgan Morse</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMTHLB55002_occ77">Clerk</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55002_geo324">St. Thomas's Hospital</rs>
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<p n="741">12 Novr. 1751</p>
<p n="742">Medm.<lb></lb>
Mr. Rudds Letter of last Month relating to yr. Request of<lb></lb>
leave to fell two or three Pollards for Gate Posts & repairing the Plough<lb></lb>
& Carts has been laid before the Gentlemen who desire to know if you<lb></lb>
have pitch'd upon my particulars Pollards and what part or Field<lb></lb>
of the Farme they stand in and of what Dimensions that they may<lb></lb>
he the better enabled to judge if they are proper for that are and<lb></lb>
to give Directions about it</p>
<p n="743">To Mrs. Crosier at Pinner Middsex</p>
<p n="744">J: Wright</p>
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