Letter – Robert Stoddart – 22 Jan 1724

May it please Your Honours

Accidentally hearing that Your Comission was now near concludeing & that then you’d make some presents or somewhat Like it to your purchasers I made Bold with all modesty & submission to beg a share of your favours In humble consideration of my paying some thousands of pounds & promiseing many more to be pay’d into the Exchequor by advanced prices etc. I am in truth a very great sufferer my self, however serviceable to others, by such purchases especially by that Unfortunate & Exorbitant one of Mr Fosters Lead Mines Which from first to Last & Still I’m a miserable Looser by (tho’ tenderly upon that point Dealt with by Your Honour) from the Base & Sinister dealings of my <Bro> Kinsman Mr Coulson More Especially by the same being subsequent to my Late unparralel and miserable Loss; being after that oblidged to and having pay’d and advanced every penny for the purchases myself. Nevertheless as I hold it impertinent, because you may think it troublesome, I shan’t say any more of Accumulated miseries upon repeated Afflications since the same are too well known to the World But refer to Mr Studly for confirmation of the Above. Meanwhile the Condesention & Honour of any Answer directed to be left for me at Mrs Watts’s a Tobaconess in Philpot Lane Fan Church Street would be a singular satisfaction & demonstration of forgiveness to 

May it please Your Honor’s

Your Honors’ most distrest & <…> pl[ain]t[iff]

Humble Servant

Robt. Stoddart



Jany the 22d 1723/4



[On Verso:]

The Honorable the Commiss[ion]ers for forfeited estates at their office in Figg-Tree-Court in the Temple London.

[Annotated in pencil:) Letter of Rob[er]t Stoddart praying for some present to be made to him by the Commissioners for his losses in the property he has bought.