Dear Sir

I hope to pick up more anecdotes about Enmore. but let me request you to be expeditious in befriending me with a copy of the plate &c. As some excuse to my friends for the trouble I give, let them consider me as a public man working for their amusement. I must have the actual survey of sussex; at lest as much as has appeared. That it is published is certainly for I have seen it nailed on the walls of a public house. I doubt not but M^r Burel could get it for me: or lend it or anything. other wants I wish to have supplied from him: such as an acc^t. of the foundation of the great Church on Winchelsey; & its fine monuments: & a copy of the inscription on the handmaid of of [sic] Beatrix a natural D^r of Portugal in the Ch. at Arundel. These are services I clame [sic] from you for perhaps M^r Burel will no more let a Letter of mine enter his house than he w^d the writer.

Pray make my best complim^ts to M^r Storer. No delay shall be made about his little owl.

Moses is hard at work for you.

Adieu
Y^rs most truely

Thomas Pennant

Downing June 16^th 1787.

Thanks for the print: & y^r dutch news.

The collection of Portraits at Longleat the princely longleat are is amazing

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i. There are no portraits as early as 1572 of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex (1565–1601), who would in any case not have been 'old' as suggested here at that time. Bull probably means Robert's father, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex (1539–1576); ODNB.