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PlC - Correspondence in the Portland (London) Collection, and Papers of W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, 1664-1809
- 1 - Correspondence relating to the Harley estates based at Wimpole and Welbeck (1707-39), with various earlier enclosures; 1664-1739

Document Reference	Pl C 1/331
Title	Letter from John Cossen, Norton, to Edward Harley, Lord Harley [later 2nd Earl of Oxford], Dover Street, London; 13 Mar. 1720/1
Date	13 March 1721
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Has been delivering cordwood at Welbeck and will do the same at Mansfield Woodhouse; is drawing up an account of the fallen timber in Mansfield Woods and believes that and the cordwood to be worth more than first thought; fears that Mr Percival is to go to Yorkshire when he is needed to assess the cordwood in Derbyshire. Is waiting for instructions as to the park fence; mentions Mr Wenman's desire to move the fence and to improve the roadway; adds that the business with the wood will keep him in Nottinghamshire until the 27th, when he will travel to Wimp[o]le for the rent-collecting; reports that Carburton Forge must be rebuilt; adds that the Duke of Norfolk's surveyor Mr Stanley is buying some fallen wood and dead trees from Cowclose Wood. Letter dated 13 Mar. 1720/21.
Term	woods, Nottinghamshire
	parks, Welbeck
	timber, Nottinghamshire

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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA38961	Percival; - (fl 1721-1723); Mr; agent connected with Lord Harley's woods	fl 1721-1723
NA38704	Wenman; William (-1750); Mr; secretary and agent to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and the Earl and Countess of Oxford	-1750
NA38963	Stanley; - (fl 1721); Mr; surveyor to the Duke of Norfolk	fl 1721
NA38705	Cossen; John (fl 1713-1738); Mr; wood agent later chief agent of 2nd Earl of Oxford at Wimpole	fl 1713-1738
NA1047	Harley; Edward (1689-1741); 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; styled Lord Harley 1711-1724	1689-1741

Places

Code	Set
PL3	/Nottinghamshire/England
PL439	/Mansfield Woodhouse/Nottinghamshire/England
PL11791	/Carburton/Nottinghamshire/England
PL3	/Nottinghamshire/England

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