This was his first public office, and it came to him, like all later preferments, without any solicitation of his own.
Thus, in 1480, when a Turkish fleet seized Otranto, Matthias, at the earnest solicitation of the pope, sent Balasz Magyar to recover the fortress, which surrendered to him on the 10th of May 1481.
The letter certainly reads like solicitation in the customary halfveiled form.
You don't want your business Christmas card to look like just another solicitation.
In 1782 he entered parliament for Lord Weymouth's close borough of Weobley, which Lord Thurlow obtained for him without solicitation.
