| Content Description | States the amount of cordwood cut at Welbeck and in Mansfield Woods; requests that Lord Harley write to Mr Knight to urge him to complete the task quickly; writes that he has suggested to Mr Morley that the 'coopers wares, sawn wares and all other the down wood', and other timber as specified, be sold to Mr Porter and Mr Johnson; reports that he has dismissed Haslam from his position in the Derbyshire woods and attempted to dismiss him from his post as gamekeeper; explains that Haslam refused to surrender his warrant without a 'more special order' and until Mr Soresby came back to Derbyshire; remarks 'tis certain he deserve no favor'; writes that constant heavy rain is ruining the roads and hampering the transport of the timber; reports that he has stopped the tenants from taking fence wood for their own use.
Adds that an agreement has been made by 'the Linacre tenant' to pay compensation for 'damage done by his Cattle in the Coppice Woods'; reports that Mr Morley has ordered the fence around the orchard and stable yard at Welbeck to be re-made. |