Document 88, p 2
| wise to do elsewhere. In short I can have no | ||||
| doubts upon that part of the business. What a | ||||
| Jury will determine is indeed another question, & | ||||
| a very material one, not that I entertain any | ||||
| apprehension of their giving damages beyond the | ||||
| penalty. you say they will not be confin’d, I cannot | ||||
| help thinking, that the more latitude they have | ||||
| the more the decission is likely to be favourable | ||||
| but with respect to what will happen, we must | ||||
| take our Chances, the present consideration is | ||||
| what is proper to be done at the ensuing Sessions | ||||
| in Compliance with the advice of Mr Scott, as well | ||||
| as to be consistent in my own Conduct, I would | ||||
| certainly have you appear for me, when you may | ||||
| open the business by saying you are directed to | ||||
| enquire if any proposals for a Compromise will | ||||
| Be attended to, if the answer is in the negative, then | ||||
| the matter rests where it is. But if the film is off | ||||
| their eyes, & they give any encouragement to proceed | ||||
| I am still willing to abide by my former proposal | ||||
| viz Mr Smeaton’s estimate of a sum sufficient to | ||||
| repair the damages a sum exceeding by 500 what | ||||
| the Masons of the Country had set it at. & what Mr | ||||
Note: Letter from Mr Errington, 27 March 1788, p 2
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