Letter 2544

Robert Honywood to Hans Sloane – January 20, 1721/22


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Date: January 20, 1721/22
Author: Robert Honywood
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 187-188



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[fol. 187] Sr The Gentlemen who met at the last Quarter sessions with a Desire to preserve the quiet of the Country having Unanimously Agreed that Mr. Harvey and my self should be sett up as Representatives for the County of Essex at the next Elecion [sic] I hope for your Concurrence and that you will favour us with your Vote and Interest to support it which will much Oblige Sr Your Humble Servt Rob’t: Honywood 20th Jan 1721[/22]

Sir Robert Honywood, the younger, was the son of diplomat Sir Robert Honywood (Gillian Wright, “Honywood, Sir Robert (1601-1686)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13668, accessed 31 Aug 2011]).




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