Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to Hans Sloane – July 26, 1724
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Date: July 26, 1724 Author: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076 Folio: f. 154
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July 26, 1724
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Thomas Bowers, Bishop of Chichester
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Fol. 154 You will not wonder that I am in the utmost concern for my poor friend the Bishop of Chichester whose life is of such consequence to my own private affaires, as [well] as to the pulpit. I doubt by all ye accounts and especially by Dr Bouchici’s letter, that his case is very desperate, and it is plain he has been very ill advised. I must therefore entreat you to go down to Chichester tomorrow early in the morning, and you may very well return to London early on Tuesday morn, I should not give this matter (which I know must be inconvenient to you), if there was not ye utmost necessity which therefore I hope you will not deny, all ye requests of…
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyme, served Sir Robert Walpole for over 20 years and became Prime Minister in the 1750s (Reed Browning, Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (16931768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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