| Description | Writes on behalf of James Webster, bricklayer at Soho. Webster cannot pay the law charges in the Chancery suit for the recovery of property in which he claims a share. Wilkinson and Marshall will only be paid if the cause is ended successfully. Webster and his family are in such distress that an application for assistance has been made to the parish of St. Warburg, Derby. Webster has no friend who can help him, “especially in the very dubious state in which the case certainly appears to distant observers.” Regarding James Brown, Webster can only say that he is a bricklayer. (See Cheshire’s letters to the overseers of St. Warburg’s, Derby, 7 Jun. and 13 Jul.) |