Your order for twenty guineas, on
Messrs. Trett and Penrose, hath come to hand, and been duly
honoured, and we thankfully Accept the same, in payment for all
trouble had in this matter.
'&c, &c, &c.'
The formal document which it enclosed said:--
'This is to certify that Charles Archer, Esq., aged, as shortly
before his death he reported himself, thirty-five years, formerly
of London, departed this life, on the 4th August, 1748, in his
lodgings, in the city of Florence, next door to the "Red Lion," and
over against the great entrance of the Church of the Holy Cross, in
the which, having conformed to the holy Roman faith, he is
buried.--Signed this 12th day of August, 1748.
'PHILIP DRAYTON, Baronet.
'GAETANO MELONI, M.D.
'ROBERT SMITH, Musician.
'We three having seen the said Charles Archer during his sickness,
and after his decease.'
Then followed the copy of the baronet's letter to his attorneys, which
was neither very long nor very business-like.
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