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Letter from Wm Fenwick re new subscription begun in London

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Sir
I this day by the Hands of my servant Geo: Green
received in Newcastle Bank Notes and cash the sum of
Three Hundred & eighteen pounds two shillings for the Relief
of the poor sufferers by the great flood in the parishes of Bywell
which I promise to account to you for, I have so many small
sums to pay shall be greatly distressed for small money I
observe in the last London Evening a subscription begun in London for the
sufferers in the North by the flood which will oblige us to keep
open our books at Hexham for some time after the next meeting
I am Sir
                                  Yr Humble St
Bywell Febry 18 1772                        Wm Fenwick
P:S:
The parcel of notes value five pound each Received together
amounted to the sum of ninety five pounds only altho' £100 was marked
upon the paper the loose five pound note made up the sum of £100

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