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for the sake of the public, it will be but fitting they should be so included.
The compulsory powers of the Act being general, & excluding (according to a
general & very proper rule) all Dwelling-houses, it was on that account
that neither the Cottages nor the Public House were included in the forced
purchase contracted conducted by the Supervisors: but after the naked land had
been secured, there was a voluntary treaty on foot, as I understood from
Sir Charles Bunbury, for the purchase of the Public House, to which
purchase no reluctance on the part of the landlord whoever he was (I
suppose the ownership was in the same hands as that of the adjacent
land) was testified.

Possibly with respect to such lots as are not comprised in the
verdict of the Jury, or at least some of them, a lease might be more
eligible or more practicable than an absolute purchase: if so, I should
have no objection, if it were of sufficient length or renewable.

It is with regret I reflect on the distance which operates as a
bar to those mutual explanations by which I flatter myself Your
Lordship's doubts might be effectually cleared up. Does Your Lordship
entertain any thoughts of resisvisiting this Neighbourhood soon?
My younger Brother Colonel Bentham is at present out upon a
tour, which may perhaps bring him through Northampton in his way
home. I don't know but I may venture to take the liberty with Your
Lordship of writing to him to stop there, & ask permission to wait upon
Your Lordship with that view.

I ought not to conclude this tedious address without making
my acknowledgements for the speediness of the answer with which
Your Lordship was pleased to honor me. That the dispatch of mine

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Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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