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1778. 4 Term. [Monday] Nov. 2.

heard, and when it came to my turn to speak, I remark’d on Impey’s declining the title, and therefore I did not myself choose to give it him. I told Chambers I thought it right for him to give it him when he was absent, but not when he was present, because I thought Impey did not deserve he should please him so much, as to give him the Title when he was present.
My brother Chambers, now told me, that Sir John Eardley Wilmot, now One of His Majesty’s Most Honble Privy Council, and late Lord Cheif Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, wrote a Letter to Impey which Impey sent to Chambers lately, in which Letter Sir Eardley gives Impey the title of Lord throughout.
I said this was very strong evidence of the propriety of giving him the Title.