Dear Sir

Inclosed are the sheets respecting Edinburgh. Let me entreat you carefully to look them over, see what is omitted or may be corrected. & then return them let me entreat you to shew them to no one on any account which will much oblige

y^r obed^t Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

Sept^r 17^th 1775.

are not the colliers &c set free by a late act? Pray give me a little acc^t of the marriage contracts. are they as Jonston says?

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