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Since his dismissal in April, and even before, Townshend had cultivated Pitt (in March 1763 he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain rank for an officer in whom Pitt interested himself).1 Still more so after the August crisis. Edward Barnard, headmaster of Eton, who was connected with the Townshends, wrote to Lord Lincoln, 9 September:2
I received yesterday a letter from Adderbury, which gives me the greatest pleasure, as I am assured that Mr. Townshend is properly affected with Mr. Pitt’s great behaviour, and is resolved to support the same cause.
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Namier, L., Brooke, J. (1964). In Opposition 1763–1765. In: Charles Townshend. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81801-3_6
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