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thing of passion to corrupt his judgment.

Since my last I have reced a letter from Q.S.P. at
Bath, in which (blessed be God therefore ) he tells me there
will be no occasion for me to go to Oxford, for that C. Abbot
has no competitor, & looks upon himself as sure. I has asked
him about the price of ratteen cloth, which I had heard from
Barre was as cheap there as Broadcloth in London, viz.
16s. Q.S.P. upon inquiry confirmed that idea, and in
the overflowings of his affection offer'd me a coat of it as a
Bath present: so away go I on cock-horse to Bath tomorrow
morning to be measured for it. I shall return in the
afternoon.

A day or two ago I received a letter from Sam,
dated Catherineburgh & Nigne-Taghill. The bad news it contains
is that he has lost a portable Barometer and gold
to the value of £13 or 14 by the breaking of a phial of
quicksilver by the overturning of a trunk: the good news, that
the model of his plane-engine is finished, and "succeeds
"to the satisfaction of every body. The Engine itself would have
been finished but for a vacation of 6 weeks which the workmen
have on account of the harvest, the time for which in
that country being very short requires as many hands as can
be muster'd.

I wait only for Parson Townsend to quit this place. I
can not think what is become of the man he leaves me in an
awkward predicament — he was to have been here on Wednesday.
is now nobody but Miss Fox & Col. Barre — I send you a trunk for
Davies

Identifier: | JB/539/251/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-10-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	251	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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