TALBOT2492

My dearest Henry –

It would have been as well perhaps if you had acceded to M^r Mundays ¹ offer, & allowed the [illegible] to be 500 · as you could have added an hundred more by Will, at any Time but it is too late now to do anything – I wonder M^r King ² behaved so ill – what can have come to him –? with respect to his son – it is usual I believe to name the Solicitor employed in drawing the settlements or some one in used to business & having a knowledge of the Estate &ca – King was one of Caroline’s ³ Trustees for some Part at least, & Stilwell ⁴ for another because they being acquainted with the Property vested [were?] the [illegible] [Persons?] – of young King I know nothing except that he is now, or is to be his Fathers Partner & to succeed him –

We have only ½ an Hour to reply by return of Post which is one reason why my Note is more than usually illegibly [sic]

Yr aff
C F.

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Henry Talbot Esq^r
Laycock abbey
Chippenham
Wilts