| Content Description | Reports a meeting with Mr Hurrel about the tenant at Kingston Wood, who advised him to keep the tenant on while the crop is being sown; remarks on the number of untenanted farms in the area; reports the safe arrival of the elms for planting and of the horses; is to send William Nickels to London with a basket of fowl from Huntingdon; assumes that the usual charity will be distributed 'on my Ladys Birthday'.
Refers to the tenant Joseph Norman of Arrington who has asked for a new barn to be built in return for an increase in rent; writes that Sir George Downing has offered him an adjoining tenancy; asks that the earl approves the building of the barn; writes that Edward Dusal and 'Michael' are receiving treatment as Michael has a rash.
Letter dated 31 Jan. 1730/1. |