| Content Description | Undertakes to do the earl's will in the matter with the Dean of Wells; writes that Green of Mansfield and Warrener Cutts of Clipston are behind with their rent; expects to have collected £400 between himself and Mr Gace by April; writes that Lord Bathurst is losing tenants because they cannot afford the rents and hears that the situation in Lincolnshire is worse.
States that Will Potter of the Sloswicks Farm has spoken of leaving and has borrowed money to pay the rent; reports that the Duke of Rutland is owed £15,000 and that the earl's tenant in the Vale of Belvoir, Sam Mather of Alverton, will be leaving. |