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Mr Porter
all honest means must be used by me to procure his appointment as Surveyor to the fens in the [indecipherable] manner I must advise at Boston for the Proper measures to take & the proper persons to apply to – I see no objection to my writing to a large number of Persons & stating that I should have personally asked their votes had I not been too much pressd for time, this will be a fair test whether the opinion of my neighbours in general of my Conduct is the same as is held by the chairman of the Quarter Sessions & his coadjuters
Mr. Bowles - as that gentleman is an attorney, by which it is provd that he has passd through a Probation, otherwise he could not have been admitted as such, he must know that the Case of Reckoning as he calls it is Obsolete & irrelevant, that he has read Hargreaves v. Scholes I know, because I gave it to him, & he read it in my office at Revesby, then he Came to me with his Client Danby to Replacing the Cattle that my Bailiffs had impounded; the Case of Barton V Chester he ought to know & I conclude does know
by bothe these Cases the Latter of which was pleaded only a few Terms past, it is apparent that houses can have no right of Common but by virtue of & in proportion to the Quantity of Land belonging to them, & so said Ld Kenyon in the Strongest Language. if knowing this, for if he does not know it he ought to be struck off the Roll of attorneys, he has actualy undertaken to shew that the owners of houses have right to a larger Share of the Common than that which has been granted to them, not as a right, but by the mere Generosity of the Proprietors of Land, to claim the whole Common justly belongs & if he has taken money before-hand from these deluded people, as Fee for pleading this Rotten Ccause which he himself has suggested to them, I realy do not know