TALBOT2624

London

March 4. 1833

Dear M^r F.

The Parl^{y 1} papers seem likely to be very useful, when the Irish Church Reform bill ² comes on.

I hear Moore ³ has called a vestry for Friday, this provokes me; what, without giving me the least information of it, so that I might ask Awdry ⁴ to attend on my behalf! Unless you would like to take that trouble. I don’t know what he means to lay before the Vestry, but what I wish is, that the Vestry should empower him & Dan^l Clark ⁵ to go to Uley ⁶ in Gloucestershire at the Parish expense & minutely examine the Workhouse system ⁷ which has reduced the poor rates in that parish in so extraordinary a manner.

The overseer of Uley is M^r Ferebee, Upper Crown Inn, & is I am informed a very civil obliging person, ready to communicate all information –

This & much more I have from J. Baker Esq^r of Hardwicke Court ⁸ who is so extremely polite as to say if I will send down any gentleman to examine the system, he will receive him at his own house.

I understand the poor law Comm^{rs 9} are going to make a report. How I wish I had known that M^r Okeden was one, for he was staying at Bowood ¹⁰ lately & I could have talked with him about it. M^r Senior ¹¹ is another.

Now I wish Moore not to make a precipitate journey to this place, without saying a word to me, but let it be decided in vestry to send him there in a fortnight’s time.

Yours aff^ly

Henry