L30/12/9/11

Letter from Thomas Bland [to Alexander Hume-Campbell, 1st Baron Hume of Berwick]. Sent from Colchester. Has been in London. The Bishop of London, Lady Grey and Lord Hardwicke have all granted the writer’s request to hold the Livings of Mile End and Stebbing without a dispensation.

22 Dec 1778

From: 1778 To: 1778

The Bishop of St. David’s [William Stuart] has advised the writer to employ a Welsh attorney to recover the Prebendial rent, but the writer is ‘afraid of employing any of that tribe’, and has desired the Bishop’s secretary to try and get the rent by fair means without recourse to law. Returns the Chancellor’s letter – ‘it is droll enough that we have been so warmly in pursuit of a Living which was given away to another the 4th of last June.’

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Bland, Thomas,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick),
Bishop of London,
Yorke, Jemima (Countess of Hardwicke),
Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Stuart, William

Colchester, CORRESPONDENCE, parish livings, Stebbing, Colchester Mile End, dispensation