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and get the Precept ready, so that the election may be proclaim’d time- 
enough to fix the Election for Saturday ye 9th of July. The writ will 
be in Somersetshire by the 3rd inst., and Tuesday is the latest day for 
the Proclamation, in order to go to Election on Saturday, as the day of 
Proclamation must be exclusive of the four days, the day of Election 
inclusive. I am more apprehensive that my attendance in Person on 
the Corporation will be utterly impossible, and I am very uneasy about 
it, lest I should appear to be wanting in that real regard I, with so 
much reason, feel for them ; may I again recommend this Distress to. 
your friendly and kind offices, and hope you will add this to the many 
many obligations I feel to you, and shall ever most gratefully acknow- 
ledge. I am with all respect and affection 
Dear Sir 
Your most obliged and most faithfull 
Friend and Servant 
W. Pirr. 
Mr. Allen replies to these letters as follows : 
Dear Sir, 
I have received the letter which you was pleased to honour 
me with the 30th of the last month, and in obedience to your 
Commands a proper person, who can be confided in, is imployed to- 
prepare the Under Sheriff, and get the Precept, ready for your 
Election on Saturday the 9th of this month. 
Your presence at the Town Hall upon that oczasion would be very 
pleasing to all your Electors, if it had been consistent with His Majestys. 
Service but, since it is not, I may safely venture to assure that no bad 
consequences will attend your absence. 
When you receive an account from the Mayor, of your unanimous. 
Election, you in your Letter of thanks to Him and the Corporation, will 
I presume be pleased to mention with concern, the cause of your 
necessary attendance in London on the National affairs, with your 
full intentions to make your personal acknowledgmts. for their dis- 
tinguishing or rather peculiar regard to you, before the Meeting of the. 
Parliamt. 
