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Description: | Thanks him for his attentions regarding two legacies. Is glad to have heard of his little girl also of the establishment of Mr Ellison's health. Also refers to Humphreys management of the election being admirable - disadvantages of working with an unstable character - "I would advise him to regain if possible his lost popularity among the more respectable portion of his constituents and those who under the new bill are likely to become his constituents" [? Charles de Laet] I am at a loss to know how he will get into parliament when all the close and rotten boroughs are annihilated".
Reference to the excellence of Heywood's speeches (? Sir Benjamin MP for Lancaster 1831). Thinks the proposed parliamentary reform will "renovate not destroy all that we justly feel proud of".
Refers to possible reform of tithe ... were a commutation of tithes to take place we should hear no more clamour against the clergy". Writes that in Cornwall "the farmers are everywhere reformers".
Writes of the progress in settling his late brother's affairs (Sir Christopher Hawkins).
This part of the letter seems incomplete. His wife has written her greetings and messuages to her niece across part of it.
No date but probably c1830. Sir Christopher Hawkins died in 1829. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | undated [c1830] | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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