Record

Document Reference	Pl C 1/435
Title	Letter from John Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, Lord Harley [later 2nd Earl of Oxford], Dover Street, London; 2 Feb. 1723/4
Date	2 February 1724
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Has heard from Mr Vaughan that Mr Gray is coming to fix the engine; has told Thomas Thornton 'his Ladys comands' which he took with good grace admitting 'his great and many faults of lying abroad and neglect of business' and thanking Lord and Lady Harley for their kindness; undertakes to provide him with clothes [livery] and adds that he [Thornton] wishes to go to Nottinghamshire; accounts for the £23 15/- paid to Mr Brand for brawn; mentions that he saw Mr Kimpton who was very drunk and who said he would be coming to London and would pay the money there; suggests that they should 'humour him so as to hold another year til the Crop be inn'd'. Requests instructions so that he might talk to Mr Brown about a new barn; has paid Mr Wortham; discusses Mr Wortham's finances and adds that Mr Wortham expressed his sorrow at having annoyed Lord Harley by his remarks about the lateness of the payment; has ordered John Elsom to make iron grates to catch the embers so that they do not go to waste. Letter dated 2 Feb. 1723/24.
Term	estate business, Wimpole
Term	accounts, Wimpole

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA39059	Vaughan; - (-1729); Mr; servant to 2nd Earl of Oxford	-1729
NA39060	Gray; - (fl 1724); Mr; engine-mender	fl 1724
NA39014	Thornton; Thomas (-1731); Mr; servant to Lady Harley; dismissed through old age	-1731
NA39061	Brand; - (fl 1724-1727); Mr; supplier of brawn to 2nd Earl of Oxford	fl 1724-1727
NA38992	Kimpton; Edward (fl 1722-1727); Mr; tenant of 2nd Earl of Oxford at Kingston Wood Cambridgeshire	fl 1722-1727
NA38985	Brown; - (fl 1722-1725); Mr; steward and agent on the Wimpole estate	fl 1722-1725
NA39049	Wortham; - (fl 1724); Mr; tallow chandler for Lord Harley in Cambridgeshire	fl 1724
NA39016	Elsom; John (-1738); Mr; farrier and ironworker at Wimpole	-1738
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