which is a Secret to your Lordship. I have too great Regard for your Lordship and too great Confidence in you to conceal any Thing from you, and as Nothing New has happen'd since I left Wentworth Castle, unless that Sir George Savile has declin'd, and Sir Rowland Wynn declar'd himself a Candidate for the County. I give your Lordship This Notice of it though I make no doubt but it is already known to you.
I order'd Lord Bruce's Servant, who was here to Call for your Lordship's Letter to Lord Bruce at the Angel (at which House he had not been nor intended to be at in his Return) and carry it with him to Meet his Lord on the Road, and wrote by him to my Lord to let him know how much you insisted upon seeing him in his way to Tanfield. All which Consider'd your Lordship must needs acquit Me from having
the least Design of persuading Lord B to any one Action
that might be disobliging to your Lordship and herein I can answer not only for myself but my Friends too, who are Equally Sollicitous to procure your Lordship's Friendship and Assistance in the Affair.
S"^ J. Stapylton and Mr. Fox left This Place just after I receiv'd your Lordship's letter this Morning, who finding I had a letter from you, desir'd me to Intimate this to your Lordship together with a Tender of their Best Services. I beg your Lordship to rest Assur'd that there is not one friend of Ours who differs herein in Opinion with us and therefore I can Venture in all their Names, as well as my own, to Sollicite your Lordship for your Zealous Assistance in this Affair, which will be of so great Consequence to Our Cause.
Hitherto we have desir'd Nothing more of any one than his Appearance at the Meeting at York on the 31st and to use his Interest to bring as many friends thither as he can, Both which I now heartily request of your Lordship. I have told your Lordship all that it is possible for me to know of Lord Bruce's Motions, and have nothing to add that is new, but that I have This Morning received a letter from Sir R. Wynn desiring my Vote &c. for him, whereupon we resolv'd to add to the Advertisement lately printed in the
York and Leeds papers, That as Sir G. S had now
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