| Content Description | Reports a house fire at Meldreth which destroyed the building and some wheat, occasioned by servants being careless with a candle in the stable; writes that a calf, two pigs, a hare and some butter have been sent; has been busy noting the brickwork at Jabez Conder's new house; mentions John Bowron and some business to do with horses; adds that oats have been sown in the Avenue, and that the tenants have been engaged in bringing hedgewood, coal and faggots to the barn yard.
Letter dated 5 Mar. 1722/23. |