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... Jack Pow[ell] ...; Jo[h]n James wants positive instructions in respect to the indictm[en]t; the sooner the better a seizure for rent is made upon some of them; conferences between that infamous fellow at Radn[o]r and Young have occasioned 2 or 3 visits from Ed[ward] Lewis, followed by a general report of a resignation of his living in w[hi]ch he was to be succeeded by Bull; Betty Meredith's daughter accidentally overheard them talking about it; the parson told Hunt he w[oul]d do nothing; Jo[h]n James was told at Kington he c[oul]d not resign till the sequestrations were satisfied; recipient is to pay the £7 upon Allford's acc[oun]t; the affid[avi]t must not be omitted in the information ag[ain]st Hunt; Mr Evans' 2 sons and his daughter and Dr Stone are here. P. S. Hugh comes tomorrow. Mutilated.

The new market set up by Ed[ward] L[ewis] and Young is a favourite of the people and they hope to make greatly their interest; recipient's advice produced a great tumult upon the bailiffs taking [to]ll; writer would allow the use of the ground under the Hall till a market house c[oul]d be procured for it; he suggests posting up a paper showing his wishes for its success; a lie for a day has turned many an election; Wheeler is dead; James Thomas' sheep are harassed in a dispute relating to right of common between writer and Dick Price.

The bailiffs forcing toll has occasional noise and clamour; that impud[en]t woman Nanny Miles ...; Ed[ward] L[ewis] is reckoned by most the finest gent.; writer will let it be publicly known that he will permit the use of a piece of ground at Radn[o]r for a market; Meredith of Knighton had demanded an acc[oun]t of his weights and measure. Damaged.

As there is a danger of recipient's old complaint he should send for Fotheringall [? and Towle [?Fowle]]; Edmunds may be able to serve recipient under his and Bearcroft's directions; Barlow with the opposite agent can put off Hunt's affair; the indictment could be late for the quarter sessions; recipient is desired to pay the Islington man by Edmonds; the person from Hull may be the collector; Ed[ward] L[ewis] leaves this place on Friday next; 'they done taking toll'.

Recipient is to tell writer in his next how his hand is; was not Fowle an improper man?; a scandalous affair obliges writer to remove any intention of his; 'she' comes here sometimes only to keep up appearances; recipient is to be extremely civil to Johns and his son; if Bearcroft is not able to attend, recipient won't have time to instruct Dunning; recipient's sister may write all but w[ha]t regards the codicil. P. S. All but recipient's aunt and writer, who has only been once out of his room in 2 months, have been down of this distemper; all the Foley, Cornwall, &c., are in full canvass for Wallwyne; they can't bear his name at Hereford; Harley thought he should have no opposition.

Recipient's business has not been considered at the Board; writer is a very little man in office, but is willing to assist recipient.

Writer answered a letter from recipient's uncle under cover to recipient; the strong report of the merch[an]t's friends about Rayader was that recipient would lose his election as the result of a petition; 'he' would have success not by trying the validity of the late patent to hold the courts in Cantremelenith, but by the interest of M----y; writer, like a lawyer, told them that they would find it a very sufficient one to make burgesses; this was writer's learned argument.

Writer has to attend the Hereford election on the day of 'your' borough election.

Mr Powell should have informed recipient that writer was obliged to leave Presteign before the poll closed; a little riot was soon appeased by Mr D. Price; there was 81 majority for Mr [Chase] Price; Mr Johnes wished Mr Price joy of his election and directly set out for Cardigan where the election is not over; writer's father got tack with Jones for recipient's horse at Harpton; should the bad inflammation of recipient's uncle not continue to amend, he will not be long in the country; recipient's late misfortune gives the greatest pleasure to his aunt and uncle; Mr E. Lewis' acknowledgement of his election [from a newspaper] was enclosed; writer will urge the discharge of the Radn[o]r bills; Mr E. Lewis has had all his corporation burgesses at dinner at Downton and distributed a whole beef among them; Will Evans needs recipient's help as he has brewed a good deal of ale which will not keep.

Writer went to Rayader; it has rained for 2 or 3 days and frozen prodigious hard; John Hughes of Llanwan's horse fell down on the Forrest by com[in]g home from market and he broke his leg; Hope was out surveying land, but Mr Edwards promised to give writer an account of the number of housese in the boro[ugh] of Rayader; Mr Evans would not take anything for the copies; he hinted to writer that if Mr E[dward] L[ewis] did not get his point it would be a void election; recipient's father flung a g[rea]t many stamps away by entering many burgesses that were dead and gone away; all the burgesses that have been sworn since 1768 are stamped; Mr Rich[ar]d Price could get the number of houses in Kevenlleece and Knucklass; recipient's horse has taken possession of the lattermath; writer told recipient's uncle w[ha]t Younge had told him relative to the election; the lease will be sent by the carrier; his uncle is in high spirits about recipient's election; writer is sure that he will be member during life if he will be the sitting member for the next 7 years. [Address mutilated.].

Writer gives a list of twenty persons who were sworn burgesses in 1727; he will make what objections he can to those bur[gesses] that polled for 'him'; he will send recipient a fine goose from Mr Jones the parson's lady, but could not buy a turkey in the market or at home that was fit to send; he will send everything recipient directed except certain poll books in a case to Mr Edmonds, and will bring the present poll book up with him if he must come; he has received £9.13.10, Mr Holl's arrear of fee farm. P. S. Tho[ma]s Lewis, gent., made a bur[gess] in 1727 was the D[octo]r's father; 432 burgesses have been sworn at Rayader from 1768 to 1774.

Writer's son brought Will[iam] Evans to open recipient's cupboard in the closet; writer found the Rayader stamps, but could not find a presentment belonging to Knucklass, although there were several presentments belonging to Farrington and Knighton; writer lists the contents of the case specified in No. C/142; writer could not find recipient's uncle stamped; Evan Probert of Rayader, who behaves very well to all recipient's friends, desires his advice touching oaks he has bought on a disputed estate.

Writer has sent recipient some bacon and fowls from the widow Davies at the Yatt; he gave recipient's barrel of ale at the Crossway to the inferior sort of voters; there are various reports about the election; writer p[ai]d Meredith £5 for being clerk to the trustees; the turnpike pays but a trifle now. P. S. Writer wishes to know if he should go to Kevenlleece and Knucklass to know the nubmer of houses, and if he should find who takes charity money; Dick Morgan has bro-ugh]t down summonses to serve the bailiff and writer.

Mr Rickards' counsel observed that the pl[ain]t[iff] was perfectly regular in his title; 'they' are surprised to find that Mr Austin's patent was enrolled, as recipient's friend Mr Meredith had assured them that it was not; writer has prepared one more ejectm[en]t for 'our' Great Sessions ag[ains]t James Price of Pentronin in Whitton [?and] Crowther's tenement; the point for the consid[eratio]n of the jury is whether it is the King's waste or not; the ejectm[en]ts served upon the cottagers on the demise of Lord Oxford are dropped.

Writer hopes the affidavit came safe; the 7 pound man, now a school master at Islington, is only to be heard of by Wixted's partner and his wife. P. S. She fears recipient's application on behalf of his brother, who has had long services and a long illness in 'that' country, will be fruitless.

As the frank was so rotten the affidavits had to be put in another paper; recipient should pay off Mr Wald, who has had a quarrel with 'him', at Islington; writer will be glad to see Mr Thurston, whom she has paid, when she comes to Town after Christmas; recipient should personally see Lord Sandwich and enforce the argument that 'he', fatherless as he has always been, is not a military man and can at any time quit when his ill health disables him from carrying on; writer knew Palli[?s]er from a boy when bred up by his Coz. Capt. Roberson of the Allborough; recipient is told to consider whether he can properly show 'it' to Lord Sandwich or any Treasury friend; the hand of recipient's uncle is much better, tho[ugh] he cannot hold a pen.

Writer condoles with recipient and 'my sister' on the loss of a very fine child.

Recipient's opinion relating to the Proberts' legacies was extremely satisfactory as far as it went, but the trustee may be called upon by a bill in equity by any brother of Edward who did not receive a part of the legacy; writer's little girl, who has been inoculated under the care of Mr Russell of Worcester, is to go to school at Hereford; writer never makes any gentleman's house his place of residence, but will be often in Bedford Row; he has a strong tincture of the language as well as [the] garb of the mountaineers; Evan Meredith made his supposed daughter, a milliner in London, his ex[ecutri]x; she came to Presteign; her mother's name is Lane and lives at Withington below Hereford. P. S. Mr Harris recommends that the Proberts give a bond to indem[nif]y the trustee.

The elegance of recipient's manners and the instructive agreeableness of his conversation make writer heartily regret his absence; he has robbed recipient's library of eight specified vols; he encloses half a dozen covers for recipient's stamp; he wishes recipient success in trying the grand question; recipient will still have one great battle to fight, which will depend on his attention to the borough; writer suggests that recipient should, instead of giving beef at Xmas, give to every friendly burgess who will accept of it so much grey Kington cloth that will make them a coat, and a hat of the same quality [as] the common soldiers wear; if one hundred will gladly receive recipient's bounty, the expense will be no more than £46.14.2; recipient stands high in favour with the county and still higher with his uncle, who has left Harpton for 'Town'.

A mortification in one leg of recipient's uncle is apprehended; recipient may soon possess an ample fortune which will enable him to bid adieu to the law; he may pause to consider what is expected from him; the suitors will be pressing; he should cling to his tried friends.