Autograph Letter Signed "Vassall Holland".

Three pages, 8vo, bifolium, small closed tear, remnants of tipping in,mainly good condition. He has received a letter and petition from his correspondent. He explains his confinement to home through gout, and also the procedure by which the petition would be presented ("as the petition of yourself & the trustees") to the House of Lords (technicality). In a postscript he minimises the significance of this technicality, "but on the bare statement it must appear to the house that the [?] fo the congregation are favorable to the relief of Roman Catholics from all [covert?] disabilities." Note: The Catholic Relief Act passed in 1829.