Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/12/9/1
  • Title
    Letter from Thomas Bland [to Alexander Hume-Campbell, 1st Baron Hume of Berwick]. Sent from Berkhamsted. ‘Many thanks to you, my dear Lord, for your very kind attention in watching every opportunity to promote my interest, which by being so steadily and zealously pursued must, I think, succeed at last.
  • Date free text
    22 Jun 1777
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    From: 1777 To: 1777
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    I am totally ignorant of Dr Walker and his preferment, but I write to Mr Young by this post desiring him, if he knows, or can find out any living in the Chancellor’s gift which Dr W will vacate of £150 of upwards by the death of Dodd, to trouble your Lordship with a line immediately mentioning the name of it. If it is the Bishop of Ely’s Dr Warren, I dare say he has no livings but what are pretty good, and if your Lordship’s intelligence had reached so far as to know the name of the living and the certainty of it’s being vacant, I should have been thankful for his leavings. Mile End [Colchester] is tenable with another living at any distance if have leave from Lord Hardwick and Lady Grey, which I think they would hardly refuse, provided I pay all due attention to the former. In all these cases expedition is of the utmost consequence, and I think the Chancellor would hardly refuse your Lordship anything if your application is made in time. Lord Carlisle has got his tutor Ekins an excellent succedaneum for the Prebend of Worcester which was promised him. The Living of Sedgefield is £1,200 a year and may be holden with Morpeth. When I gave the family the first notice of it here it was so great a thing that they could not5 believe it. I did not think Lord Carlisle’s interest could have done so much, especially when he had just got such a great place for himself. But there are sometimes unexpected opportunities which surprise everybody, even those who profit by them. I am much concerned to find that Mr Butler has been so dilatory about the dairy maid. I heard by the Ibbetsons, who left me last Friday, that he has got an ugly low fever and I know he is always in that disorder remarkably low spirited and inactive. I have not heard from him since I left Grosvenor Square, and I am afraid the unsettled part of my tithes at Mile End are still in the same state, notwithstanding the hay and corn harvest is approaching. With any tolerable activity it might have been finished long before this time. No man is more capable of doing business than he is, but I doubt he is at best too dissipated to attend to it sufficiently. I am glad you Lordship is coming into this county, and I shall take the first opportunity of paying my respects to you. If you receive any useful intelligence from Dr Young, I know I need not desire you to write immediately to the Chancellor. Charlotte begs to join her compliments with mine to Lady Bell. I am, with the sincerest regard, my dear Lord, your Lordships much obliged and faithful humble servant, T Bland. You see there is a Preb. Of Westrn. dead, which will take off one from Lord North’s list, and another will be taken off at Worcester by Mr Ekins’ promotion to Sedgefield. I view all these things now with an eye of hope, which I did not do so formerly, and I could wish to be upon his Lordship’s list.’
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