Correspondence - Gregory Family

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Copy letter, dated at Stivic Hall, near Coventry, from Arthur Gregory to John, third Earl of Bute, first Lord of the Treasury, resigned 1763, relating how, after inheriting his estate, `I was tempted after some years, as my family was not large, to build a better house than I found upon the premises' [see no. 1518] but that, no sooner had he finished the building than his family `began to increase and I have now eight children, my youngest not a year old, without the means of providing for more than third of them' and `with all the external appearance of plenty and comfort, I am the most miserable of beings'; and assuring his lordship that if he `be thought worthy to succed upon the first vacancy of a commissioner of excise, the best wishes of me and mine will ever attend you'. Copy dated at the British Museum, 5 July 1897.