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To the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, the aldermen, and common-council of the city of London. My Lord and gentlemen, the vacant office of principal clerk in the court of requests being solicited by the second clerk, Mr. Holmes, I take the liberty of offering myself a candidate to succeed to his place
Signed and dated: Samuel Haynes Marriott. Cateaton Street, 22 April, 1796.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).