Document 45, p 2
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| on the Part of the Magistrates. You must remember Sir | ||||
| I often urg’d that the Forms of my Release might at that Time | ||||
| be agreed upon; you were regularly assembled at Sessions, I | ||||
| was competent to engage for myself but you did not care to name | ||||
| any Specific Sum nor did you desire me to make an Offer; in | ||||
| this Situation of things according to my Conception we parted. | ||||
| I have however been since told, that it was meant at that time | ||||
| that my Bill should be sent down to the ensuing Quarter Sessions | ||||
| or the one subsequently. So far was I from understanding that to | ||||
| be the wish of the Magistrates that Mr Heron can testify that at | ||||
| a Meeting at Mr Wallace’s in Lincoln’s Inn Fields not long before | ||||
| Xmas-82. concerning the Petition, it was there considered whether | ||||
| or no any further Application to Sessions was necessary before | ||||
| the Business was proceeded upon, after due Consideration they | ||||
| were of opinion there was no necessity for such Application. Tho’ | ||||
| this Consultation was held upon the subject of the Petition, yet | ||||
| Mr Wallace’s Journey into the North & his Illness prevented it | ||||
| being drawn till near the last day appointed for presenting Petitions | ||||
| The moment I was in possession of it I enclosed it to you Sir, the | ||||
| presenting could not possibly be delayed or the year was lost, it | ||||
| was drawn as nearly as I recollect in Conformity to what had | ||||
| passed at Sessions, the offer of a Sum of Money to be paid to the | ||||
| County was not omitted, You did not favour me with any | ||||
| Answer to my Letter. Had I been proceeding contrary to what was | ||||
| agreed upon at sessions I doubt not but you would have wrote a | ||||
| Line to signify to me my Mistake & put me into the right Road | ||||
| but hearing nothing Sir I concluded all was right I was moreover | ||||
| informed that Sir Wm Middleton had been desired to take care | ||||
| that the Bill was not hurry’d thro’ the House without the | ||||
| Magistrates being fully appriz’d of its Nature & Tendency, it is | ||||
| true no specific Terms, excepting restoring the Materials were | ||||
| mention’d in the Bill, nor do I see how they possibly could, a[s] | ||||
| none had ever been agreed upon between the parties, the Comm[ittee?] | ||||
Note: Letter from Mr Errington to Mr Aynsley, 22 September 1783, p 2
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