Sir, permit me to solicit your kind suffrage in support of my application to the Court of Common Council, for the place of Principal land coal meter of this city, now become vacant by the death of my esteemed friend, Mr. Richard Dixon. ...
Parish, Edward.
[London,
1799]
The letter concludes with a blank space for insertion of the signature; the Bodleian copy is signed and dated in MS.: E Parish. Ludgate Street, 21 Octo. 1799.
ESTC