| Description | Includes references to having dined with Mr Turner at Clints, who told him immediately he should resign but had promised to consult Dodsworth's interest at the next or following Sessions; Duke of Devonshire L[or]d Rockingham being amongst the great ones active for him and not even L[or]d Holderness being against him; Mr Cholmley being very active for him and will procure him about 20 votes; having been at Richmond 3 or 4 nights; all say James Close at London is very indolent; Dodsworth's sole reliance being upon the Turners; the election being probably the first week in August and going on Wednesday to Whitby, then to Scarborough, returning on Saturday and Sunday setting forward to Wensleydale and beyond Richmond |