Letter – 20 July 1760 | Laurence Sterne Trust

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Letter – 20 July 1760

To

The Right Honble the Earl Fauconberg

London

Date-stamped: 23 July

Remains of black wax seal

Newborough 20^th July 1760

I gave Your Lordships Sirvice to M^r Sterne, whose Doctrine, (tho Chiefly Extempory) takes So well amongs the Congregation that the Church can Scarce Contain the Number of People that appear every Sunday.

I am

My Lord

Your Lordhsips Most

Obd^t: Hble Servant

Rich^d: Chapman

Chiefly Extempory: this may explain why, though a clergyman for the best part of three decades, there are relatively few surviving sermons written by Sterne.

Number: it is estimated that 200 people could have fit into Coxwold Church.