| Content Description | Reports that while travelling on the road between Barnet and Hatfield he passed two stage coaches from York and Carlton near Newark whose gentry passengers had been robbed of £40 by four highwaymen; writes that he paid the coachmen 2s 6d each, and that the passengers made affidavits to the local Justices; mentions that he called at the Duke of Devonshire's new house at Odsey and was told that the duke intends to visit Wimpole.
Refers to mares owned by the Duke of Bridgwater and the Duke of Ancaster which are to be bred with the earl's Arabian; mentions a complaint by William Gore; hopes that the pheasant has arrived.
Remainder of letter is damaged, with text loss, leaving meaning obscure.
Letter dated 23 Mar. 1728/9. |