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shall not repeat any of the observations he made on the duty of the first penny, believing that will have its proper weight with you, but we desire you will give us leave to add a little to what we have said; and it may be done in a very few words. We grant that the sum of three thousand four hundred & fourty nine pounds fourteen shilling & nine pence was always liable to a call of the Court of Chancery, and we believe that you would have paid it when that demand should have been made. However if you made any advantage of this sum of money, which you know was of little or no benefit to our father from 1728 to 1731 and for the truth of this we shall refer to non [none] but yourself, we can't but be of oppinion [opinion] that in honour & justice you will think us intitled [entitled] to it; In the meantime we are not insensible of the disadvantages we may be under if our money in your hands, after Lord Fairfax is paid, should not be sufficient to clear our tobaccos now consigned to you; and we do not design that our bank stock should be used upon the occasions. We have chosen to follow the method our Father seems to have pointed out to us, which was to call on our good friend Mr. William Dawkins for some assistance; and we have for that purpose herewith sent you an order on him for the sum of one thousand pounds sterling, which we doubt not he will readyly [readily] pay, and than [then] we perswade [persuade] ourselves that all difficulties concerning discounty will cease. This surely must be thought a very reasonable thing, and yet to take off any imputation of unkindness or jealousie with regard to Mr. Dawkins, which is very far from our thoughts, you are able to justify us from some of our fathers letters, that he hoped with such small remittencies [remittances] as he should