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Beccles.—Returns a receipted bill, along with some cases and opinions bearing the signatures of various eminent lawyers.

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My dear Sir.

I return you our bill with an acknowl[edgmen]t of having rec’ed {1} the amount, & with it some cases & opinions to which you will find the signatures of the present Chanc[ello]r & Master of the Rolls {2} attach’d—also an opinion of the late Sir Anth[on]y Hart & two Letters from the late Mr Kerrison {3}—one, altho’ the signature only is in his hand-writing is truly characteristic of the man & is no doubt, what it professes to be, a copy from one of his own composition & writing— {4}

Your’s dear Sir very truly
E. C. Sharpin

Beccles Feb[ruar]y 22. 1836

[Superscription:] Dawson Turner Esq | Yarmouth

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The missing letters from words abbreviated by superscript letters have been supplied in square brackets.

{1} Abbreviated by a bar over ‘ce’.

{2} Thomas Spring Rice and Lord Langdale.

{3} Probably Matthias Kerrison, the so-called ‘Bungay millionaire’.

{4} About two lines’ worth of words here have been written over by the writer in order to render them meaningless. The documents mentioned were clearly sent in order that Turner might add them to his collection of autographs.

Report of ordination, Bishop [Henry Dudley Ryder, bishop of Gloucester?] felt he was outstepping general practice by ordaining him without title, attended service at the Cathedral, introduced to Henry Bickersteth, Bishop may give him a private ordination as priest if necessary: Church Missionary House