| 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. |