Bear Inn Devizes
Jany 13.
Dear Talbot/
I am very sorry that it is out of my Power to accept your friendly Invitation to Lacock. For I should have been extremely pleased to see your Cousin, as well as to have passed a few days with you: but I cannot leave this Place during the present week, as we are engaged in Court at our Q. sessions every morning; and I have engagements to dinner on Friday & Saturday; and on Monday we have a Ball here at which I am a Steward, & so cannot avoid attending: and on Tuesday I start for Devonshire, from whence I shall probably not return, before I migrate to London.
I beg my best Compts to Lady Elizabeth & your sisters, 1 and am
dear Talbot, Yours very truly
T H SSB Estcourt
Your Servant has found me here: which must be my Excuse for bad pen & Paper.
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