Letter received by Banks from John Thomas Bell, 7 July 1794 (Series 91.05) - No. 0002

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Mr. Wetherall's Lodgings being engaged to the Council of the Assizes I find you cannot be accommodated there.  I have made all the necessary Enquiry and the best Accommodations in my opinion will  be at Mrs.Weekes's the House lately used as a boarding School.  You can have the large School Room (which considering the present Heat of the Weather is very desireable [desirable] ) and another sitting Room, two bed Chambers with a dressing Closet to one and a Bed Room for a female Servant.  The House is conveniently situated in the Street running between the White Hart and Angel and I don't think you could be better accommodated in the Town it being near the Inn, The Cathedral, The Castle, The Assembly Room, etc.  The only thing that Mrs. Weekes is afraid of is that her Sheets should not be good enough.  If therefore you should approve of what I have done I presume you would not mind the Trouble of bringing those Articles with you.  I have not absolutely engaged these Lodgings but wait your Answer until which time I have obtained the refusal of them.

Inclosed I send you the Names of Gentn. intended to be summoned upon the Grand Jury for the ensuing Assizes.  You will have the Goodness to cross out those you would not Chuse [choose] to have summoned and add those I may have omitted and if you could favor me with the List back again by the first or second post I shall be much obliged. 

In the interim
I have the Honor to be
Dr. Sir [Dear Sir]
Your much obliged hble [humble] Servt. [Servant]

J. T. Bell

Lincoln 7th. July 1794