| Content Description | Reports that some years ago when Mr Ashcroft, the Earl of Oxford's curate at Mansfield Woodhouse, was very ill, he asked the earl to bestow the living on his brother [George Wenman]; now Mr Ashcroft is dangerously ill asks for Thomas's favour in recommending his brother; the curacy is worth £40 a year paid by the earl himself out of the lease of the 'great and small tythes' held from the Dean of Lincoln.
Since his brother requires no induction he will not have to leave the living he now holds in the moorlands of Staffordshire under the earl's patronage; if he gets the position they will be nearer to each other; promises [George] will be totally loyal to the earl; asks Thomas to remind the earl about the drafts of the leases to Norton tenants for Welbeck Carr.
Letter dated January 31st 1729/30. |