at heart ought to resolve upon before he accepts of a seat in Parliament. I intend to go for Bath in about ten days' time for the recovery of my health, which if I am so fortunate as to obtain, shall be much obliged to your lordship for any favour you are pleased to think me worthy of in that way ; and in the meantime I hope you will believe me when I assure your lordship that nothing can give me a greater satisfaction than to imagine that any of my thoughts or actions have merited your lordship's approbation, and that I am, &c.
[Sir John Bland.]
KiPPAX Park, November 11, 1733. My Lord,
This day I received your Lordship's by Mr, Traves, and am much pleas'd to hear that Mr. Wortley is come Home and that he is so Zealous with Us. I should be very willing to meet him at Barnsley, if it was in my Power to do it, but I am under a promise to meet Sir Miles Stapylton to morrow at Leeds. We are invited to dine with the Mayor, and on Tuesday we are to go about the Town, and after Our Business is done there I am to go to all the Towns round about this place to Sollicite Votes, which is a very Hard Task upon Me that have not one Gentleman within many miles of me who is not now a profcss'd Enemy. I was in hopes that Mr. Charles Savile of Methley would have prov'd a friend, since his family as well as himself had always been so, but I have been disappointed for he has sent an Agent to sollicite in the Opposite Interest.
I would have given your Lordship an Account of Our Success at York yesterday, but I knew not where to direct till I saw Mr. Traves to day. We found that Town in generall most Zealously affected towards Us, and the populace so Exasperated against our opponents, that it was not in our power to prevent their assembling in very great Numbers and showing their dislike to them. I believe we had hearty promises from at least two Thirds of the Voters in that City, and from almost All the Countrey voters we met with in the
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