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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/1099
TitleLetter from the Bishop of Gloucester, to unidentified correspondent
Extent1 item
Date1807
DescriptionReturns thanks, on behalf of Widow Williams, for the five guinea note; he himself had overlooked paying his subscription; he wishes he could be out of his debt except it be 'in love' [in Greek]; sorry that he is still suffering from a bad cough ['a racking cough shakes the ill pigs': in Latin] in witty allusion to 'Hampshire Hogs'; comments on the thoughts he had had on the Reformation when lately in the Chapel Royal
24 March 1807

[George Isaac Huntingford, Bishop of Gloucester]
Access StatusOpen

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