BIB_ID
403616
Accession number
MA 8935
Creator
Bedford, William, active 1752.
Display Date
1752 November 4.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.9 x 16.7 cm
Notes
On the verso, in an unknown hand, is 'Verses wrote in ye Lord Chancellors Hermitage, at Wrest in Bedfordshire; / from the [illegible] 8 Nov. 1752." The poem consists of two four-line stanzas and a third stanza of 6 lines and is credited to Thomas Edwards, 1699-1757 as "Sonnet / For the Root-House at Wrest, in Bedfordshire, the seat of Lord Hardwicke". The Lord Chancellor would have been Philip Yorke, Lord Hardwicke (1690-1764) who served as Lord Chancellor from 1737-1756. The first line is "Stranger, or Guest, whome'er this hallow'd Grove / Shall chance receive, where sweet Contentment dwells."
Summary
Requesting that he deliver to him, by courier the following: Sallust in usum Delphini Crispini, the Greek Testament, the Latin Testament and Telemachus; instructing him to ask the courier who will bring the books to collect the money owed him from the Bookkeeper at the Inn.
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