Record

Document Reference	Pl C 1/442
Title	Letter from John Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, Lord Harley [later 2nd Earl of Oxford], Dover Street, London; 23 Feb. 1723/4
Date	23 February 1724
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Approves of the solution to Kimpton's business; undertakes to send the clothes that need mending along with the relevant measurements; proposes to ride to Nottinghamshire together with Thomas Thornton at the start of March; mentions that the new nursery is next to Pluckrose's orchard, and asks for permission to plant a 'quick' around it; adds that work is progressing on the quicks and hedges at Mr Gill's; points out that it will be expensive and therefore should be done well so that it will last; mentions that Mr Pigot the elder died and was buried at Abington. Letter dated 23 Feb. 1723/24.
Term	estate business, Wimpole

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA38992	Kimpton; Edward (fl 1722-1727); Mr; tenant of 2nd Earl of Oxford at Kingston Wood Cambridgeshire	fl 1722-1727
NA39014	Thornton; Thomas (-1731); Mr; servant to Lady Harley; dismissed through old age	-1731
NA39066	Pigott; Granado (-1724); Mr; MP; of Bassingbourne Cambridgeshire	-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