Reply to a Gentleman who wishes to claim an Estate in Chancery.
Strand, June 14th, 187—
Dear Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 11th inst. relative to the Pulwood estate, in Chancery, I think that your first step is to ascertain in whose Court the suit is pending. You can discover this by searching at the Record and Writ Clerks' Courts, in Chancery Lane. You must then ascertain by search in Chambers of the Judge to whose Court the suit is attached, to what stage the proceedings have advanced, and, if no certificate has issued finding the heir or heirs, you must make out your pedigree, by searching parish and other registers, old family Bibles, &c., and obtain also all the evidence you possibly can in support of it; but you had better employ a solicitor. I trust you will be successful.
Believe me,
Yours truly,
Josiah Webb.
In reply to a Gentleman asking the Loan of a Book relative to German Spa Waters.