BIB_ID
137064
Accession number
MA 177.130
Creator
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, Earl of, 1753-1827.
Display Date
1788 Feb. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters related to the trial of Warren Hastings; see collection-level record (MA 176-177) for more information.
With a reply from Sir Peter Burrell on the verso; informing him that "only those Peers who attend in Westminster Hall are entitled to Tickets But Sir Peter will certainly offer a Ticket for the Peers Gallery every day to Lord Shrewsbury if His Lordship will have the goodness to send for the same to Whitehall."
Written from Stanhope Street, Mayfair.
With a reply from Sir Peter Burrell on the verso; informing him that "only those Peers who attend in Westminster Hall are entitled to Tickets But Sir Peter will certainly offer a Ticket for the Peers Gallery every day to Lord Shrewsbury if His Lordship will have the goodness to send for the same to Whitehall."
Written from Stanhope Street, Mayfair.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890.
Summary
Asking if he can "procure admission to Mr. Hastings's Trial" as he is "a roman Catholick Peer."
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