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National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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I have deferred writing from day to day, in expectation of seeing your re–election announced; but
the first tidings of it, is by your frank this day received.
My departure has been delayed by various causes, among which a certain degree of indolence, &
a certain propensity to be doing something else (as Peter says)t are that it will be a day after the fair, – & possibly, (which is
xxxxx of more weight) that the subject is too solemn to be treated of in a strain of fiction, however
solemn the strain. When I suspect that such an objection is likely to be made, that very suspicion seems to prove
that there would be grounds for it. With regard to the measure <metre>, I have certainly, in my own
judgement, succeeded; & produced a measure of great variety & power, & beauty.
My present purpose is to begin my journey on Monday 17 April, & if I effect this I shall have
a chance of seeing you if it be only for a day; but even one whole day at Llangedwin would be worth all the
fragments which there is a chance of getting in the broken & bustling society of London. Let us see – the 18th to Liverpool, 19th to Chester & as much farther as the opportunity of
stages may permit. On the 20th I could reach you, & this I should like particularly to do,
for the sake of seeing the children,
On the other leaf I transcribe for you Shadwellstakes away interferes & takes away what it was the intention of a testator to have given. However I
had not sufficient expectation to feel any disappointment
Wesley
Your Opinion is requested, Whether as Heir at Law to Cannon Southey, or under his Will, Mr Robert Southey can claim now any interest in the premises therein mentioned, John Southey
Somerville having died without issue, & without having suffered a Recovery.
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“The Pedigree is not stated, but I collect from the case that Mr R. S. is
not the heir of John Southey Somerville.
On the death of the testator, according to the certificate of the Judges of the Kings
Bench,v. Mary Lethbridge and seven others, 27 January
1795.
The same Rule is applicable to the Copyhold Estates, supposing they were descendible like
freehold. As Heir to the Testator, Mr R. S. cannot have any interest in the Leaseholds, tho as
one of the Testators next of kin he may have some interest in them. But in order to determine that the pedigree
must be stated.