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Lacock Abbey

May 16^th 31

Sir

the following is Banks’s ¹ account of last weeks work

the two windows blanked round and finished – the door case of the dining-room finished all but cleaning down the paving between the Bannisters nearly finished the Bridge has had two coats of paint

on thursday night the 12^th ins^t there was a ball held at the Angel Inn, Chippenham by the friends of Neale ² & Boldero ³ – when both their effigy^s were burn^d in the Street by a numerous assembly & with Cheers of Talbot & reform for Ever ⁴

Your Ob^dt Serv^t

C. Fitzsimmons

H. F. Talbot Esq^r