VILLIERS (Thomas, 1st Earl Clarendon, Baron Hyde of Hindon, 1709-1786, Diplomatist, Envoy to Warsaw, Dresden and Vienna, Ambassador at Berlin, M.P. for Tamworth, Envoy who arranged the Peace between Frederick the Great and Augustus of Savoy, 1745)

Autograph Letter Signed ('Clarendon') to E. Nugent Temple thanking him for his letter which "makes me not hesitate, but rather think it a duty to explain what may have been mistaken & cause a conclusion that Ld Paget and I troubled your Lordship about the same person, whereas the Liberty Stock was in favor of Dean Champigné, the father, and his Lordship solicited for his son; tho' I dare say Ld page would be happy to see his father in law duly distinguished ..." he encloses a copy (not present) of his earlier letter giving his "opinion of that excellent Divine ... I will only add in its support that Dan Champigné has been 42 years a strict observer of his duty, and has brought up and educated in an uncommon genteel manner a very numerous family yet, notwithstanding his birth alliances & merit don't receive from church benefices above 400 a year ...", 3 sides 4to., Grosvenor Street, December



Item Date:  1782

Stock No:  22550      £85

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