Record

Document Reference	Pl C 1/504
Title	Letter from William Wenman, Edwinstowe [to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford]; 18 Apr. 1726
Date	18 April 1726
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports that he is to serve an ejectment on the executors of the late Mr Neale to remove them from the farm at Clipston which Mr Neale had deliberately run down and damaged in the last year of his life; adds that they also owe £150 in arrears for rent of the mill; has taken advice from Mr Wainwright and has left the case with Mr Bannister; mentions the death of Sir Thomas Hewett, reminding the earl that he was a tenant for life at Clipston and asking for instructions as to a covenant in the lease for a payment to his executors after his death. Recipient identified by comparison with other letters in the same series; addressed 'My Lord'.
Term	tenants, Clipstone

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA38754	Neale; John (-1725); Mr; the elder; of Mansfield Woodhouse Nottinghamshire; Lord of the Manor of Tollerton Nottinghamshire	-1725
NA39117	Wainwright; John (fl 1726-1727); Mr; lawyer of Lincoln's Inn	fl 1726-1727
NA38892	Bannister; Edward (fl 1723-1729); Mr; attorney of the Temple	fl 1723-1729
NA38704	Wenman; William (-1750); Mr; secretary and agent to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and the Earl and Countess of Oxford	-1750
NA1047	Harley; Edward (1689-1741); 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; styled Lord Harley 1711-1724	1689-1741
NA62437	Hewet; Thomas (1656-1726); Sir; of Shireoaks Nottinghamshire; knighted 1719; Surveyor-General of the Office of Works	1656-1726