Chippenham ^<1>

Saturday Morning

Dear Sir

M^r Mayne ^<2> arrived at Chippenham this Morning and I have just been informed, M^r Pownal ^<3> or some other Gentleman in his stead will be here in a day or two.

If you have no particular engagement to-Day I beg to submit to you the propriety of your calling on M^r Michell ^<4> and M^r Ashe ^<5> this Morning, which will prevent any interruption in our Canvass on Monday and possibly be considered by those Gentlemen as a mark of peculiar respect and attention. –

I remain
Dear Sir
Yours very faithfully & obliged

W^m Wilmot Jun^r

W.p
H.F. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey

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Notes:

1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

2. John Mayne.

3. Probably J. G. Henry Pownall (1792–1880), of Spring Grove, Hounslow.

4. Edward Michell, solicitor, Chippenham.

5. Rev Roberty Ashe.