484 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
Actually declin'd All Freeholders were desir'd not to Engage Themselves before that Meeting, which I hope your Lordship will desire from All you meet or are acquainted with, and particularly Mr. Wortley who I hope is in Yorkshire. A Message from your Lordship will I doubt not make him a Zealous friend and if you are acquainted with Sir T. Saunder- son* I believe a letter to him would bring him to the Meeting. I am extremely oblig'd to your Lordship for your Kind Ex- pressions towards Me and as I have for so many Years Experienced your Lordship's goodness to me, you shall on all occasions find a gratefull Acknowledgment of it from, &c.
��[Lord Bruce.]
Bramham, Friday morning \_October 26, 1733.] My Lord,
I sent your Lordship word by your servant of the sad accident hapned to Sir J. Stapleton. Sir J. Bland, Mr. Fox and I are of opinion that Sir Miles, son of the late Sir John, should have the offer of being the candidate ;t and as I doubt not but your lordship will be of the same opinion, I intend before our being at York on Tuesday evening to know Sir Miles's thoughts upon it, that in case he should not undertake it we may think of another. We here have sent to all parts of the county to acquaint our friends that the meeting holds for Wednesday, and to desire them to be at York on Tuesday night. Only your lordship's side of the country is not sent to, which I beg you will be pleased to do. I depend upon the honour of seeing your lordship at York on Tuesday evening, and am &c.
Sir Miles is a hopeful young man and well esteemed of. By this accident I cannot yet learn what answer is come fron\ Mr. Turner.
- Member for Lincolnshire, afterwards third Earl of Scarborough.
t Sir John Stapleton, of Myton, had not sat for Yorkshire in the Parlia- ment about to be dissolved. Sir Thos. Wentworth and Cholmley Turner, of Kirkleatham, were elected in 1727; in 1728 Sir Thos. Wentworth was raised to the peerage as Lord Malton, and Sir Geo. Savile took his place.
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