Letter from Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

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Concerns his comments on the plea for mercy that will not be granted for an unidentified case with reference to a servant robbing his master's house and another man "of the name Lloyd, as i think, in Devonshire Square, being robbed by a man with his face black'd, coming to his bedside in the night, with pistols in his hands". Written from Grosvenor Square. Signed: "Hardwicke".

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