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Letter Regarding Presenting a Document to the Queen

Author(s): Shaw, John

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Sir

Seeing yow are going for Ed:
on monday, I desire yow may give yourself
the trouble of cariing the ſhiyrs adreſse along
with yow and presenting it to thoſe that have not
ſeigned it, as at Glaſgow to Dugalstoun and
Galangde, and at Ed: to my Lord Ilay, Sir James
Smollet his sons: or any others that have
not had the opurtunity of seeing it, and reccommend
to in or more of them to send it up to
the Secritairs: so that it may be preſsented
by them to her Majeſtie according to
Mr Grhames and my Commoning which will
very much oblige

Sir
Your moſt humble Servant
John Shaw

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Letter Regarding Presenting a Document to the Queen. 2024. In The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. Retrieved 29 March 2024, from http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/document/?documentid=374.

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Letter Regarding Presenting a Document to the Queen

Document Information

Document ID 374
Title Letter Regarding Presenting a Document to the Queen
Year group 1700-1750
Genre Administrative prose
Year of publication 1708
Place of publication Greenock, Scotland
Wordcount 111

Author information: Shaw, John

Author ID 282
Forenames John
Surname Shaw
Gender Male