| Content Description | Presents information about the state of the wood on the Harley estates, so that Harley can answer Mr Vane's objections; comments on Vane's temper; explains in detail the state of the wood, the fallen trees, the leaning trees, and what has been cut down for various repairs; comments on Vane's progress on all this; assures Harley that he [Wenman] never received money for wood except for old fallen trees at Solkholme, cut down by the duchess before 1717; has sent Walter an account of the taxes to be taken from the rents at Haughton; wishes Harley would induce Vane to report what trees he had been informed were cut down and sold, as he [Wenman] is sure Vane is mistaken; adds that the Duke of Newcastle has sold about £1000 of wood, and thinks he should be more subject to Vane's enquiry than Harley for the Cavendish estates. |