- C/13.
- Ffeil
- 1719, June 26.
The clerk of the peace will not deliver the commission which he received from 'my Ld'; he will inform the L[or]d Chancellor that the new justices are sworn and the new commission publicly read; it is said that Capt. Tayler is put up for election as a bailiff; Cha[rles] Hanmer is relapsed with the black jaundice; recipient is requested to ask Mr Chamberline for his vote in case Tonman does not stand; they design to bring in Sir H[umphrey] Howorth to succeed recipient in the borough; writer never gave the 'old Ld' cause to act as he has done; he has not heard these three months from Martha Morris; Weston is fallen into Duppa's hands; the 'Ld' suspects every one that comes to writer, and makes Mr Davies, 'our' collector, tremble; family illnesses. Damaged.