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- 19 June 1760 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Letter from George Sandby to the Countess of Portsmouth accepting the Mastership and the terms by which he was to give it up to Barton Wallop after a set number of years or on request.
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Madam,
It is the greatest pleasure to any man, of feeling, to have the esteem of those he most esteems, and therefore, I must be happy in your Ladyship's kind, and little thought of, offer to me of the Mastership of Magdalene College. If I have the honour to be placed there I shall discharge the trust as well as I can, and show a most faithful execution of it in my last act, by the delivery, of it back again into the hand of my noble benefactress. Your Ladyship is pleased to name a term of years for my holding it; but where a grandson of Lord Portsmouth's is concerned, you need only say to thy servant go! - and he goeth.
The post day at Bungay is not still Saturday but I will try that this shall meet the Yarmouth bag, that your Ladyship may know my intention of setting out from hence upon Sunday in the afternoon as soon as I have performed my duty. I will give my bones one day's rest in Fleet Street; so that if your Ladyship has ay instructions or orders for me, I can receive them there, on Wednesday, before I personally say, that I am,
Madam,
your Ladyship's most obliged & most obedient servant G. Sandby