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Document number: 2870
Date: 27 Apr 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: SAUNDERS Thomas Hosier
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA34(MW)-54
Last updated: 12th February 2012

My dear Sir

When last I had the pleasure of writing to you <1> I hoped that our troublesome Lawyer Mr Bond <2> would have withdrawn his local bill for the management of the poor of this parish and since the Introduction of Lord Althorps <3> general measure I thought Mr Bond would be satisfied.

It is however not the Case & my friends here join me in the belief that he will endeavor to get his bill read a second time To oppose this we have forwarded a petition by my brother in Law Mr [Birch?] (Solr) to Mr Methuen <4> to present to the House probably tomorrow or Wednesday and if you will have the goodness to support Mr Methuen in endeavoring to throw out this notable and bungling bill we shall all feel much obliged to you

Our petition is signed by the Minister Churchwardens and Overseers and including them by 332 rate payers against whom Mr Bond has a small knot of about 20 or 30 troublesome and ignorant farmers to support his Measure the most respectable part of his 77 original petitioners having very properly withdrawn since the promulgation of the Government measure which will perfectly satisfy us without the crude & separate Legislation of Mr Bond.

I have written Mr Methuen Sir J Astley & Mr Benett <5> to this Effect

and remain Dear Sir, Yours very sincerely
T. H. Saunders

Bradford
27 April 1834


Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 02852.

2. See Doc. No: 02812.

3. John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp, 3rd Earl of Spencer (1782–1845), politician.

4. Paul Methuen, Baron Methuen (1779–1849), MP.

5. Sir John Dugdale Astley (1778–1842), MP; a Reformer, he sat for Wiltshire North from 1820 to 1835; John Benett (b. 1773), MP, sat for Wiltshire South from 1819 until 1852.

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