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1712.1112.Ta



Addressed:
L.^d Lexington to M.^r Prior.


without date¹

Dear Prior.

I gave you an Account in my last,
by M.^r de Bonais Courier, that the great
ceremony of the Renunciation paſs'd on
Saturday last, this inclos'd to Our Amb:^rs
at Utrect˂h˃t ² will tell you the particulars, w:^ch
when you have Read, pray Seal and
forward, and Pardon me that I dont write
it to you, for I have so much Busineſs
just now that I cant, but you will be as
well inform'd this way, and see all the
difficulties that I am forced to Struggle
with, which if you can remove them, by
your instances at your Court, you will do
well to do it, for it will Save so much time,
I had no Letters from you last Post, nor
England, nor Utrect, which I wonder much
at, Pray write to me constantly, for it will
be much for my Consolation as well as
information, for it is a terrible thing to
be so long without an Answer to know,
whither one has done ill or well, and
Speake freely to me,

I am
Your most Faithfull
humble Servant.

Lexington.

2.

Scribal notation:
M.^r Priors loose Papers.

Notes
1.
This phrase, in the scribe's hand, appears where the date would normally be. In copying this letter into a volume "containing Lett:^rs to, & from France from the 2:^d of February 1712/13 N: S: to July 31^st N:S: 1713" ("Index" to SP 105/267), the scribe misfiled it. It is positioned in the copy book between a letter from Lexington to Prior dated "Madrid 3.^d April 1713" and a letter from Swinford to Lewis dated "Paris 26. March 1713." That it was written earlier is clear from its contents. It mentions "the great ceremony of the Renunciation paſs'd on Saturday last." The Act of Renunciation was passed on 5 Nov. 1712, NS. The Saturday following 5 Nov. NS was 1/12 Nov., the last possible date for this letter, which had to have been written between 25 Oct./5 Nov. and 1/12 Nov. 1712. A copy in Spanish of the Renunciation can be found in BL, ADD 70358 (formerly Loan 29/168: n. pag.). It was sent in a later letter, 1712.1121.Ta.
2.
By overwriting, the scribe immediately corrected the t to h and continued the word.

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