Record

Document Reference	Pl C 1/690
Title	Letter from John Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, Dover Street, London; 21 Feb. 1730/1
Date	21 February 1731
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Has heard from John Bouron that the last post was not collected from Caxton; writes that Handscome the tinker robbed the house with the boy and not John Granger the tinker; sends a brace of cocks, a partridge and a turkey; adds that Benjamin Wilcocks is with him; suggests that he and Wilcocks come to London to demand in person the arrears for wood owed by General Sutton. Letter dated 21 Feb. 1730/1.
Term	accounts, wood
	domestic affairs, provisions
	crimes, robbery
	occupations and professions, tinker

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA38991	Bouron; John (fl 1722-1731); Mr; servant at Wimpole working with horses	fl 1722-1731
NA39275	Handscome; - (fl 1731); Mr; tinker	fl 1731
NA39276	Granger; John (fl 1731); Mr; tinker	fl 1731
NA38903	Wilcocks; Benjamin (1705-); Mr; father in law of Thomas Isatt; agent on the Nottinghamshire estates	1705-
NA27265	Sutton; Richard (1674-1737); Mr; M.P. Newark 1708-10 and 1712-37	1674-1737
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