TALBOT8961

Chippenham
10 April 1865

Dear Sir,

I have remitted to Mess^rs Coutts & C^{o 1} £50Ì to be placed to your Account. I have also paid £420Ì to the Gov^r of [Queen’s Anne?] Bounty for the purchase of the old Vicarage – for which I will ask you for a Security upon Your return to the Abbey.

I remain Your’s obliged
West Awdry

I have not the honor of being made Sheriff this year –

H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey.