Records of the Old Charlton Hunt 



instance of what they are, & how they are affected to us of 

 y° South, a Gent", of quahty where I was laft quarterd was 

 very shy of being acquainted w*^ me till he saw I was 

 known to a certain Earl w'^'' a Green Ruban a great speaker 

 in Your houfe, he afked y^ Earl what sort of man I was, he 

 reply 'd a good sort of man, one of y® beft that come from 

 that Country. All y« Good Gen^ Wade did for this 

 country by laying out . . . Thousands of y^ Governm'^. 

 mony to . . . purpofe can't procure a good word from any 

 of them, they say he is no friend to Scotland w'^^ a man 

 muft be, or pretend to be, or he cant live here. 



My Lord Duke 

 Your Graces most Obed^ Servant 



B. M. Martin. 



Fro7n Mr. Paunceforty Early Court, to the Duke of 



Rickmondy Charlton. 



Jan. 25, 1747. 



My Lord Duke, 



I have just now received a printed Summons to meet 

 the Gentlemen of the Charlton hunt, or send an Answer by 

 Friday, the latter was impossible for me to perform ; the 

 former indeed I might, was I not grown desperate enough 

 to own that I could not stay longer in town from a Young 

 IMistrefs I keep in the Country of 3 year's old ; & my 

 Mother who I had left not so well as I could wish. I must 

 therefore make an Apology for not waiting on your Grace 

 on Wednesday (tho' as yet have had no Summons) since had 



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