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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 1/574
Title
Letter from John Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, Dover Street, London; 27 Jun. 1727
Date
27 June 1727
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Requests to know how he is to be paid for his work in persuading the freeholders 'not to ingage their Votes'; mentions the illness of Captain Hagar; writes that rain has badly damaged the harvested hay; adds that he has put off the payment of Mr Jeffrey's tithe for another week.
Term
estate business, Wimpole
elections, Cambridgeshire 1727
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Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA39176
Hagar; - (fl 1727-1733); Captain; landowner in Cambridgeshire
fl 1727-1733
NA39008
Jeffreys; Francis (fl 1713-1731); -; Rector of Wimpole since 1713; Vicar of Ashwell Hertfordshire from 1728
fl 1713-1731
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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