Record

Document Reference	Pl C 1/409
Title	Letter from John Cossen, Norton, to Edward Harley, Lord Harley [later 2nd Earl of Oxford], Dover Street, London; 8 Jun. 1723
Date	8 June 1723
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports the Barlow tenants' anger at the favour shown to Mr Watts over the woods on his land, and has accordingly ordered the wood to be cut and to be made into 'white cole'; mentions the workmen at Welbeck who have been very unsatisfactory; does not wish to go through the disruption of firing them and hiring others; suggests that those workmen who pay cottage rents to Mr Wenman could in future be told to pay them to Cossen, which would give him greater influence over their conduct; suggests that the trees at Cock Glode be dug up at the roots after the barking and gives reasons to do that rather than to let the trees 'spring' up again and be felled in 30 years.
Term	woods, Derbyshire
	woods, Nottinghamshire
	timber, felling of
	domestic affairs, servants, Welbeck

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA39031	Watts; - (fl 1723); Mr	fl 1723
NA38704	Wenman; William (-1750); Mr; secretary and agent to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and the Earl and Countess of Oxford	-1750
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