Document 43, p 2
| quite sufficient for my security, tho’ it might | ||||
| not be so for that of the Magistrates, I may | ||||
| be wrong in my law, but in that light it | ||||
| strikes me, & if you remember Mr Kenyon’s | ||||
| opinion had these words "a Jury in strict Justice | ||||
| may give in damages such a sum as would | ||||
| be requir’d to build the bridge but it would be | ||||
| neither very honourable or Conscientious in a | ||||
| County to insist upon such terms" &c &c.in | ||||
| short I am clearly of opinion that I ought | ||||
| not to bear any part of the Charge of | ||||
| obtaining the act, but you know well enough | ||||
| how much I wish to see an end to this | ||||
| business therefore I desire you would be | ||||
| plenipotentiary upon the occasion & I dare | ||||
| say I shall be satisfi’d with what you do. | ||||
| I have wrote a pretty long letter to Mr Aynsley | ||||
| explanatory of my conduct throughout this whole | ||||
| transaction, I could find when I was at Newcastle | ||||
| that many falsehoods had been propagated & | ||||
| gain’d Credit with the publick, therefore I thought | ||||
| *[it a?] Justice due to myself to set my own | ||||
| [Con?]duct in a proper light, which I have done by | ||||
| [a?] [s?]imple narrative of facts & without accusing | ||||
Note: Letter from Henry Errington to Ralph Heron, p 2
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