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Draft of letters to Treasurers in Northumberland

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Letters
Underneath "wrote to" two illegible
words written diagonally across lines
26-28 and crossed out.

Sir
                           Hexham 19 20 Decr 1771

            I beg Leave to refer you to the Newcastle News
papers of To Morrow for an Advertisement respecting the Sufferers
by the late Inundation wherein you will observe you are named
                                 the Stile
one of the Treasurers. I have wrote ^ underneath the Stile of
the Subscription Book which you will please to make you will
please to make in a Book to receive the Subscriptions -- and am
                                         ? ?
                                      Yr most hble servt





                   Northumberland

A Subscription by the Nobility Gentry Clergy and Others
for the immediate Relief of the unhappy Sufferers within
this County by the late dreadful and destructive Inundation


Lre's wrote to all the Treasurers

                            pd a penny with each except Mr
                             Davidsons

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