Record

Document Reference	Pl C 1/431
Title	Letter from John Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, Lord Harley [later 2nd Earl of Oxford], Dover Street, London; 23 Jan. 1723/4
Date	23 January 1724
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Writes that he has sent the stable boys and Mr Godfrey's boy to the tailor in Royston, and has told Thomas Thornton and John Bowron to send their measurements to the tailor so that better-fitting livery can be made; reports a meeting with Thomas Eversden about Baldrick's children; states that there was a bare-knuckle fight at the Tigar Inn between Mr Holden and William Merry, and Holden won a guinea; writes that there was also a fight between Will Lundys and one of Mr Kimpton's sons. Letter dated 23 Jan. 1723/24.
Term	domestic affairs, servants, clothing
Term	sports, bare-knuckle fighting

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA39014	Thornton; Thomas (-1731); Mr; servant to Lady Harley; dismissed through old age	-1731
NA38991	Bouron; John (fl 1722-1731); Mr; servant at Wimpole working with horses	fl 1722-1731
NA39053	Eversden; Thomas (fl 1724); Mr; JP in Cambridgeshire?	fl 1724
NA39054	Holden; - (fl 1724); Mr; 'Mr Gill's Spark'; of Cambridgeshire	fl 1724
NA39055	Merry; William (fl 1724); Mr; son of Mr Merry the butcher; of Cambridgeshire	fl 1724
NA39056	Lundys; William (fl 1724-1733); Mr; tenant of 2nd Earl of Oxford in Cambridgeshire	fl 1724-1733
NA39057	Kimpton; - (fl 1724); Mr; son of Edward Kimpton; butcher of Gamlingay Cambridgeshire	fl 1724
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