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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2022
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My honoured Papa and Mamma,
We have nothing but Joy and Festivity in this House; and it would be endless to tell you the Congratulations the happy Family receives every Day, from Tenants and Friends. Mr. B. you know, was always deem’d one of the kindest Landlords in England; and his Tenants are so overjoy’d, at the happy Event which has given them a young Landlord of his Name, (for all those who live in that large Part of the Estate, which came by Lady B. his Mother, were much afraid of having any of Sir Jacob Swynford 's Family for their Landlord, who, they say, are all made up of Pride and Cruelty, and would have racked them to Death) that they had a voluntary Meeting of about Twenty of the principal of them, to rejoice on the Occasion, and it was unanimously agreed to make a Present of a Piece of gilt Plate to serve as a Bason for the Christening, to the Value of One hundred Guineas; on which is to be ingraven the following Inscription:
In Acknowlegement of the Humanity and Generosity of the Best of Landlords, and as a Token of his Tenants Joy on the happy Birth of a Son and Heir, who will, it is hoped, inherit his Father's Generosity, and his Mother's Virtues, this Piece of Plate, is, with all due Gratitude, presented, as a Christening Bason to all the Children that shall proceed from such worthy Parents, and their Descendants, to the End of Time,
By the obliged and joyful Tenants of the maternal Estate in Bedfordshire and Gloucestershire, the Initials of whose Names are under-ingraven; viz.—
Then are to follow the first Letters of each Persons Christian and Surname.—
What an Honour is this to a Landlord! In my Opinion far, very far, surpassing the mis-nomer’d Free-gifts that we read of in some Kingdoms on extraordinary Occasions, some of them like this! For here it is all truly spontaneous——A Free Gift indeed; and Mr. B. took it very kindly, and has put off the Christening for a Week, to give Time for its being completed and inscribed as above.
Such good Tenants, such a good Wife, such Blessings from Heaven following him, nobody, I tell Mr. B.
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