Chippenham <1>
Sunday
Sir
I have received your favor <2> per messenger inclosing an Address which I will immediately hand to the Printer – I will give a few of the Electors intimation of your being at my House tomorrow Morning & hope nothing will prevent your meeting them –
I will attend to your wishes as to the distribution of Bread. –
I hope it is true that Mr Pusey <3> has resigned but I am inclined to doubt it, for Mr Scrope <4> called on Mr Colborne <5> yesterday after you left Chippenham to request his Vote, but was informed that both Votes were promised to Mr Neeld <6> & Mr Pusey –
Your request as to the Ringers shall be attended to. –
I remain Sir
Your very obed Servt
Wm Wilmot. Junr
H. F. Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Notes:
1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.
2. Not located.
3. Phillip Pusey (1799–1855), agriculturalist.
4. George Julius Duncombe Poulett Scrope (1797–1876), MP & scientist.
5. Possibly William Colborne, surgeon at High Street, Chippenham. See Pigot’s Directory, Wiltshire 1830, p. 795.
6. Joseph Neeld (1789–1856), MP & botanist.