Serjeants Inn Fleet Street
30 Dec^r 1836

My dear Sir

I have been absent Town for some time past on urgent business & as none of my letters C^d be forwarded to me I have only this day seen your letter.

I think you may with safety sell & convey the advowson^<1>r Finch^<2>expressly reserving the right to the Presentation to the present Vacancy – then you may present whom you please & neither you or M^r Finch will incur any risk – There sh^d be no promise made to M^r Finch to present his Nominee that tho’ it may be so inferred & understood. If M^r Finch will pay his Purchase money on these Terms – all will be safe & right

The late Incumbent deed 7 Oct^r

I am D^r Sir yours truly
W.R. King

Dorchester Dec^r Eight, 1836 Ilchester ^<3>
W.H.F. Talbot Esq^r
W.H..F. Talbot Esq^r
Post office
Sidmouth
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Notes:

1. The advowson for Fisherton Anger, Salisbury, Wiltshire. WHFT had inherited the advowson (the right to present a new Rector to St Clement's Church) from his father, Davenport Talbot, and held it until 1849. The new Rector would enjoy the income and assets of the living, including the Rector's house.St Clement's was demolished in 1852 and parts of it were incorporated into the new St Paul's Church.

2. Possibly Charles Finch, who ran a lunatic asylum in a large house at Fisherton Anger; the Finches were an old established family in the area. See Doc. No: 03302.

3. Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3^rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858).