Letter – Edward Blackett to George Booth – 14 May 1714

By - gregpfinch14 May 1714
Document Type: Letter
Date: 14 May 1714
Correspondent: Edward Blackett
Recipient: George Booth
Archive Source: NRO ZBL 190
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							Newby 14 May 1714

My Lord

I have the honour of yrs. of the 11 wth. a thousand thanks to your Lordship for yr. kind invitation to Dunham Seeing I did not go to the Bath the first Season am advised not to go till the latter End of Augt. wch. is reckoned to be as good a Season as the first, so when I hear yr. lordship is at Dunham Shall Send my little Jewel their & Shall Never doubt yr. lordships purternall care of her, wth. all our most Humbe. Services to yr. Lordship 

      I am yr. Lordships Most Faithfull & Most Obedt. Humbe. Servt.

‘My little jewel’ is EB’s grand-daughter Mitty/Missy, about to be entrusted to the care of her grandfather Lord Warrington

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