TALBOT4088

London
12th June 1840

To the High Sheriff of the County of Wilts

We the undersigned being impressed with the strongest feelings of horror and indignation at the atrocious attack which has lately been made on the life of her Majesty request you to convene at your earliest convenience a meeting of the Inhabitants of the County of Wilts for the purpose of enabling us together with the whole of the Inhabitants of Wiltshire to offer our congratulations to her Majesty 1 and to our country on her Majestys happy preservation from so great a danger.

[individual original signatures:]

Lansdowne 2 Sidney Herbert 3
Radnor 4 John Benett 5
Bruce6 Jos. Neeld 7
Heytesbury 8 Willm Wyndham 9
Arundell 10 T H S Sotheron 11
Andover12 G Walker Heneage 13
Shelburne 14 Wadham Wyndham15
Ailesbury16 John Neeld 17
Ernest Bruce 18 E: H à Court 19
Methuen 20 F. W. Slade21
Francis Burdett 22
Amb: Goddard 23

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