Address panel with fragments of a seal to "The Right Honble / Sir James Pulteney Bart / Bath House / Piccadilly."
Endorsed.
Volume 8 (MA 1265) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1265.1-59).
Concerning the Proof of Instructions concerning the Will; saying "The Proof of the Instructions must be resisted by you, in the Commons - The Will is not consistent with the Instructions, and there must have been other Instructions - If the Instructions (I mean the present Instructions, of which you have had a Copy) are consented to, by you, to be proved, as the Groundworks of the Will, I doubt very much whether the merits could be argued with Success in the Court of Chancery...You are now placed in an unpleasant Situation, because the Suit in the Commons will not be decided, I am confident, for a considerable Length of Time - and therefore, you will be obliged to issue Process of Contempt against Mr. & Mrs. Fawcett & their Children in order that your Cause may be brought to a Hearing and if they should persist in a Refusal, to put in the answer, then they wo'd be committed to the Fleet Prison - This must be to you most unpleasant...Mr. Hanson spoke of you in the most handsome manner - and I still hope that the Suit may be carried on, without any measure being to which may be considered, as at all adverse."