| Description | Sheffield, 18 January 1773.
Gentlemen,
My employers here are much obliged to you for your candid and kind letter to me of the 24 December last, in answer to their request of the 8th of the same month. Our petition is prepared and signed, and we have applied to Lord Rockingham, Sir George Savile, and other Members that were in the country, who have all approved of our intended application to Parliament and promised their assistance. On Wednesday morning next I am to set out for London, and hope to be there on Friday evening to meet Sir George Savile, and to apply to the rest of our Members for the county and city, and for other places in the county, and many others whom we have reason to apprehend are our friends. The Duke of Norfolk will use his good offices for us.
I should be glad to confer with your solicitor and Mr. Boulton in this business about settling the plan of a Bill. Lord Rockingham thinks that, although we petition separately, the House will refer both petitions to the same comittee, and officiously give leave for a joint Bill. I should be glad to know where I may find Mr. Boulton in London; a letter to me directed to Mr. Spooner's, apothecary, St. Martin's Lane, will find me.
I am your very obliged servant,
Gilbt. Dixon
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