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Document number: 9710
Date: 13 Oct 1870
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: CLARKE Charles S
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 24th April 2015

28, Broad Street, Bristol,
Octr 13 1870

Dear Sir,

It is my official duty to inform you that on 1st October inst the Reverend Edward Powell Nicholl <1> executed his Resignation of the Vicarage of Lacock in the County of Wilts and that my lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol <2> has accepted the said resignation and has declared the said Vicarage void of the person of the said Edward Powell Nicholl and decreed that a notification of such a voidance should be given to the Patron thereof

The receipt hereof I will trouble you to acknowledge

I am Dear Sir Yours faithfully
Charles S. Clarke
Secretary at Bristol to his Lordship

H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. Rev Edward Powell Nicholl (1831-1902), Vicar of Lacock from 1864 until his resignation in 1870; photographer.

2. Bishop Charles John Ellicott.