L30/14/279/2

From 2nd Baron Grantham, Whitehall to Lord North (draft):

22 May 1770

From: 1770 To: 1770

As Mr Hooper is going for some days to Christchurch, Grantham uses the opportunity to remind North of his request concerning him and his other friends there. For if Hooper cannot give them some comfortable prospect that their earnest wish for Mr James will be complied with, he will find himself "very delicately situated among them" and think ill of the "assiduity or interest of their representative". The time too advances for the business of the Woodward, [keeper of wood - O.E.D.], which may be made a pretence for confining the present Deputy. Grantham feels he need not write to North the circumstances of long possession, and the situation near the forest which gave a propriety to the Christchurch claim, nor point out the ease with which he hopes some equivalent might be found for Mr Paulett's son-in-law. Supports the recommendation made by the commission of the Customs, that Mr Cole, now in the warehouse, should succeed the person just above him in the office who has recently died. He has some connection with a relative of Grantham's whom he would like to oblige.

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Hooper,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Guilford, Frederick North, 2nd Earl of,
James,
Paulett,
Cole