Letter – Edward Blackett to Charles Seymour – 10 Oct 1714

By - gregpfinch10 Oct 1714
Document Type: Letter
Date: 10 Oct 1714
Correspondent: Edward Blackett
Recipient: Charles Seymour
Archive Source: NRO ZBL 189
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      10-Oct-1714

May it please your Grace

	

	Am sorry I should be Engaged before I had the Honour of your Graces, Commands, but being your Graces Interest, goes for Mr Darcy, I shall be very easy in makeing Interest against him, nor shall I be at the Election to oppose his Interest, desiring your Grace to Believe me always

	Your Graces most Faithfull & most Obedt Humble Servt



For his Grace The Duke of Sumerset

Charles Seymour, (1662-1748) was the 6th Duke of Somerset & had inherited the Northumberland estates of the Percy family following h8is marriage of heiress Elizaeth Thynne, nee Percy in 1682. Robert Darcy the 3rd Earl of Holderness, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1714

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