Wilton
March 17th 1834
Sir/
In compliance with your desire, I have to inform you, that our next General Quarter sessions of the peace for the County of Wilts, will be held at Salisbury on Tuesday the Eighth day of April next – And if you intend to qualify as a Magistrate at such sessions, I beg to inform you that the oaths of office are administered on the first day of the Sessions only – And (by statute) must be administered before twelve o’Clock –
I am Sir
yr very obedt Servt
Jno Swayne
Clerk of the Peace
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Sackville Street
Piccadilly
London