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If in your consultations | <p>If in your consultations you should hear of any occasions <gap/> | ||
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now offer of laying out money in that way to the amount | |||
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of 4 or 5,000 £ a year <sic>dont</sic> fail to tell me of them.</p> | |||
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<p>I hope it <sic>wont</sic> take you up much time, but I must | |||
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<hi rend="underline">command</hi> you to answer these Queries as fully <del>as possible</del> | |||
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and as soon as possible. Yes by the return of Post they | |||
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must be answered. I shall in all probability remain | |||
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here long enough to receive an answer from you to | |||
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these Queries and of course to this letter in general.</p> | |||
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<p>If it should so be that a foreigner may have land secured | |||
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to him as well as an Englishman, then you have | |||
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only to say so, and the business is done, except with | |||
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respect to those queries about the advantages of Land | |||
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security (Query 7.).</p> | |||
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<p>Be not surprized at these Queries nor <add>at</add> the Directions for | |||
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the answering them neither think them of trifling | |||
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importance.</p> | |||
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<p>If you can answer them in an ostensible letter written | |||
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in french, do. Best in this case say nothing of the <del>case</del> | |||
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supposition of the case of the child in that same letter, but | |||
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answer them in general with respect to a foreigner without | |||
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concerning yourself with <del><unclear>the</unclear></del> what he may intend to do with | |||
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the estate. If however the circumstance of his having | |||
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a child who he means shall go to England hereafter to | |||
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take possession of it makes a difference, then tell me of | |||
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it in a seperate letter. also if the sex of the child makes | |||
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a difference or the age.</p> | |||
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<p>In the ostensible letter <del>c<gap/> you <gap/> <gap/></del> you may give me | |||
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any philosophical news &c. Do write a line to <unclear>Marbercy</unclear> if you | |||
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have his direction and enquire if he has begun with the German | |||
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language as I have some little hopes of sending for him on some | |||
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occasion or other. Beg him also to inform himself and | |||
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to give me some account of the number of men which | |||
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now (in the scarcity of Sailors) <del><unclear>it</unclear></del> Ships of different sizes | |||
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and manner of rigging require to Navigate them. | |||
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That is whenever he knows the size and sees the manner | |||
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of <sic>Shigging</sic><!-- "Rigging"? --> of a Vessel of any country whatever, that he | |||
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enquires the number of hands.</p> | |||
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<head>Queries 1</head> | |||
<p>Can a foreigner (a <del><gap/></del> <add>Pole</add> for example) purchase land | |||
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(an estate) in England in his own name though he has | |||
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never been there? so that he might let it for the present | |||
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and at any future time go over and live upon it?</p> | |||
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If he could not make the purchase | |||
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Directions about the Queries
1
I have written them upon one of the half pages that you may
tear them off from the rest for the purpose of consulting
about the answers. I suppose you may apply to our father
Messldr Browne, or Alderman Clarke; scratch out the
parenthesis in the first line and leave the questions general
or take a Prussian or Pole for the example.
2
If in your consultations you should hear of any occasions
now offer of laying out money in that way to the amount
of 4 or 5,000 £ a year dont fail to tell me of them.
3
I hope it wont take you up much time, but I must
command you to answer these Queries as fully as possible
and as soon as possible. Yes by the return of Post they
must be answered. I shall in all probability remain
here long enough to receive an answer from you to
these Queries and of course to this letter in general.
4.
If it should so be that a foreigner may have land secured
to him as well as an Englishman, then you have
only to say so, and the business is done, except with
respect to those queries about the advantages of Land
security (Query 7.).
5
Be not surprized at these Queries nor at the Directions for
the answering them neither think them of trifling
importance.
6
If you can answer them in an ostensible letter written
in french, do. Best in this case say nothing of the case
supposition of the case of the child in that same letter, but
answer them in general with respect to a foreigner without
concerning yourself with the what he may intend to do with
the estate. If however the circumstance of his having
a child who he means shall go to England hereafter to
take possession of it makes a difference, then tell me of
it in a seperate letter. also if the sex of the child makes
a difference or the age.
7
In the ostensible letter c you you may give me
any philosophical news &c. Do write a line to Marbercy if you
have his direction and enquire if he has begun with the German
language as I have some little hopes of sending for him on some
occasion or other. Beg him also to inform himself and
to give me some account of the number of men which
now (in the scarcity of Sailors) it Ships of different sizes
and manner of rigging require to Navigate them.
That is whenever he knows the size and sees the manner
of Shigging of a Vessel of any country whatever, that he
enquires the number of hands.
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Queries 1
Can a foreigner (a Pole for example) purchase land
(an estate) in England in his own name though he has
never been there? so that he might let it for the present
and at any future time go over and live upon it?
2
If he could not make the purchase
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Samuel Bentham |
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