Beningbrough Hall----
July 13th ----- 1804
Sir,
You will write, though you have your head & hands full, and are as busy as a hen with one chicken; but then indeed it is a chicken, which, if you don’t rear it, will eventually cost me perhaps £250 ------- Shou’d Mr Crawford be subpoenn’d, I cannot but think he wou’d prove a witness of malign influence to our Cause -----wou’d to heaven he and Mr Plowman were confined to the same bed till the Assizes are over -------- methink, as the day of trial approaches, you do not hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering ------under that idea, my old symptoms returned the day I received your last letter, by keeping my mouth shut and my eyes open-------
The Madeira is deposited in my cellar with the fracture of only the bottle, value half a guinea ----- The cause of this high price is that it has been twice or thrice to the East Indies in cask, and therefore cannot be less than twelve years old-----
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I hope you and I shall be merry over it, if we carry our cause; or find consolation from its virtue provided we lose it, Bacchus being the natural auxiliary of the unfortunate -------
I send old William Laycock to be drilled by you ---- He has received a subpoena in the cause between Mr Crompton, Plaintiff, and others defendants, relative to the right of loading and unloading articles of all kinds at Nun-monkton Ferry, and which comes on at the ensuring Assizes ------ Having established the claim of the publick in this instance, the Confederacy, at the head of which Mr Stockdale is the invisible agent, are prepared to sing te Deum, in the assumed certainty of rendering the passage through my grounds for carriages of all denominations as often as the Turnpike road to London ---- So you see, between the bridge and the Ferry I am in an ugly predicament -----
I hope you are relieved from all apprehension concerning Mrs Munby, as you possess on her account and every other, the good wishes of, Sir,
yours very sincerely,
G----Earle

Beningbrough Hall----
July 13th ----- 1804
Sir,
You will write, though you have your head & hands full, and are as busy as a hen with one chicken; but then indeed it is a chicken, which, if you don’t rear it, will eventually cost me perhaps £250 ------- Shou’d Mr Crawford be subpoenaed, I cannot but think he wou’d prove a witness of malign influence to our Cause -----wou’d to heaven he and Mr Plowman were confined to the same bed till the Assizes are over -------- methink, as the day of trial approaches, you do not hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering ------under that idea, my old symptoms returned the day I received your last letter, by keeping my mouth shut and my eyes open-------
The Madeira is deposited in my cellar with the fracture of only the bottle, value half a guinea ----- The cause of this high price is that it has been twice or thrice to the East Indies in cask, and therefore cannot be less than twelve years old-----
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I hope you and I shall be merry over it, if we carry our cause; or find consolation from its virtue provided we lose it, Bacchus being the natural auxiliary of the unfortunate -------
I send old William Laycock to be drilled by you ---- He has received a subpoena in the cause between Mr Crompton, Plaintiff, and others defendants, relative to the right of loading and unloading articles of all kinds at Nun-monkton Ferry, and which comes on at the ensuring Assizes ------ Having established the claim of the public in this instance, the Confederacy, at the head of which Mr Stockdale is the invisible agent, are prepared to sing te Deum, in the assumed certainty of rendering the passage through my grounds for carriages of all denominations as often as the Turnpike road to London ---- So you see, between the bridge and the Ferry I am in an ugly predicament -----
I hope you are relieved from all apprehension concerning Mrs Munby, as you possess on her account and every other, the good wishes of, Sir,
yours very sincerely,
G----Earle