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London 9 Aug

Dear Bentham
I received your letter with uncommon
pleasure for I had almost despaired of ever hearing from you
again, such an obstinate silence had you maintained notwithstanding
the repeated inquiries after your health & your commands.
My satisfaction at seeing your letter was indeed much
abated when I found the cause of your not writing to be of so
serious a nature. For godsake do not expose your eyes to any injury in so
ignoble a service. If you will transfer your bureau to Town Wilson
(if he is not become too great a man) & I will act as your commis
& you shall use only the eyes of your understanding making
us a pair of spectacles to protect your mortal sight from all injury.

I fear much you are mistaken in your Law. I have been employed
this hour in looking over all the abridgements & some of the Equity
reporters & cannot find any ground to warrant you in refusing
to pay a debt of any kind within the till a year after the testator's
Death. By the Stat. of distinctions an admin is not to distribute
the residue until one full year after the Intestates death.
It is a rule in Equity that an Exor is not compellable to pay a legacy
where no time of payment is mentd in the will till a year after
his Testrs death; But I find it said by some master of the Rolls

Identifier: | JB/009/008/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1784-08-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	james trail	Watermarks	i french
Marginals		Paper Producer	john black
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 512, vol. 3	ID Number	3309
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