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PlC - Correspondence in the Portland (London) Collection, and Papers of W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, 1664-1809
1 - Correspondence relating to the Harley estates based at Wimpole and Welbeck (1707-39), with various earlier enclosures; 1664-1739
Document Reference
Pl C 1/532
Title
Letter from John Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, Dover Street, London; 24 Jan. 1726/7
Date
24 January 1727
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Reports that he has concluded the agreement to make William Holben tenant of Fairchild's farm for six years; mentions that William Gore discovered Captain Eversden and some others 'Coursing in the Wimpole Grounds'; writes that William Woodham and his son told Mr Gore that they were only there because they had business to discuss; requests orders as to 'the fat Heifer' and as to making buckskin breeches; writes that Hudson of Cambridge has offered to make them as he has done before; lists foodstuffs which are being sent.
Letter dated 24 Jan. 1726/7.
Term
tenants, Wimpole
crimes, poaching
domestic affairs, servants, clothing
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Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA39137
Holben; William (fl 1727-1731); Mr; tenant of 2nd Earl of Oxford in Cambridgeshire
fl 1727-1731
NA38997
Gore; William (-1735); Mr; gamekeeper at Wimpole
-1735
NA39142
Eversden; - (fl 1727-1731); Captain; JP in Cambridgeshire
fl 1727-1731
NA39143
Woodham; - (fl 1727); Mr; son of William Woodham
fl 1727
NA39058
Hudson; George (fl 1724-1727); Mr; tailor of Cambridge
fl 1724-1727
NA39108
Woodham; William (fl 1725-1731); Mr; tenant of 2nd Earl of Oxford at Kingston Cambridgeshire
fl 1725-1731
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
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