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"-mened by our Agents for when Light can any one here throw
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I have given you the Treasurer Sentiments in his own
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Word but not his Authority; her as Mr. Harrison who has
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been spoken to, does not altogether think will him, the
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Matter must Probable be discussed in a Committee before
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you can receive full directions; in the mean Time of any
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you in your Opinion as to the
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but Scheme for the Committee to adops respectg the Colling,
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you well be do good as to communicate it.
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I am Ser Your mo. obed Sert
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Mr. W. Cox near the White Horse, Bow
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St. Thomas's Hospital 26th Octr. 1799
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Mr. Cox
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I am directed by the Treasurer of this Hospital to write
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to you again respecting the Payment of half a year rent
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due at Michmas as for the Premises you held under Mr. Wingfield
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at Bow. When your Wife, a little while age, brought the
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Lady day Rent, she pleaded the Hardness of the Times, a large
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family & some Promise made, by Mr. Wingfield to make you
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an Abatement. All these Things may be strictly true but
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Mr. Whas pur it out of her own Power, & out of the Power
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of others to take your Case into Consideration, & this Hospital
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has suffered so much by him, that the Treasurer is enjoined
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to make the most of his Property, & has no Power to give
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up a Tittle of it. The Treasurer as now out of Town but
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will be her by the 15th. of next Month. By that Time I
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hope you will be ready with your Rent & will not fail
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to bring it.
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I am your humble Servt:
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J. B.Rev
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NB. Mr. Wing field, other Tenant & Streetford has paid up to
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Mickmas
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Write again 20, Novr. 1799.
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The Revd. W. Marshall Cambridge
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St. Thomas Hospital 30th. Octr. 1799.
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In the Absence of Mr. Treasurer I do myself the Pleasure
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of acknowledging the Receipt of your Letter to know of the 28th.
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covering your dress for £200 as 14 days ses
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Jas Eldah & Co. which at
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Maturity will be placed to you Credit. I wonder not, under
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the Circumstances of the Times, & the Regulation not being a
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palasable one, that you do not find the Tenants all ready
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with then Rents; but a little Purseverance will being them into
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Order, & when once
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will be as pleasant to themselves as at will be desirable to the
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Hospital. By the Time of your next Remittance I expect Mr.
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