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before representd I shd think myself neither deserving of a continuance, and that you was intitled to a far better return. I am sorry to have kept you so long upon the subject, and after requesting the Favor of you permitting me to refer you to my Agent Richd Jackson Esqr. No 9 Grays Inn for any further particulars herein I subscribe myself.
Sir Your mst. obt. hble Serv.t
R. Langton Bankey Seaforde, 17th May 1795
Sir,
I beg you will be assured that no Personal Consideration will ever have weight enough with me and incline me in the produce a wish in my mind to divert in the smallest degree & ask to divest the administration of Justice from its usual course if therefore any person whatever sd have acted as one of my officers while being High Sheriff has in your opinion been guilty of the Crimes alledgd against him in your letter to me I shall certainly require feel pleasure & not pain if you take the Proper measures to bring him to punishment for I am well satisfied that altho my name must be usd in the Process my character cannot suffer in the opinion either of the Court or of the Public.
May 21. on the same day I wrote to Mr. Bell & acquainted him with the contents of Mr Bankies' Letter & of my answer.
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