TALBOT3389

My Dear Sir,

I w^d not recommend you to be in haste to present to Fisherton - perhaps you or I - may meet with a Purchaser for the Advowson¹ & you can present at any time within 6 months from the Vacancy. I think £1500 much beyond the Value & that 1000£^s is enough.

I rather think I recommended a written Contract & there the Purchaser might have presented & the £1500 been recovered. I thought there was a Captiousness as to the title which shewed that some thing was not quite right & I dare say it was the want of the money - however it is of no less to conjecture as to the motive - the Incumbent is gone & we must make the most of it. Let me know the lowest Sum you will take & I will try what I can do with it

I am D^r Sir Yours truly
W.R. King

Serjeants Inn Fleet S^t
31 Oct 1836

W.H.F. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham