Record

Document Reference	Pl C 1/699
Title	Letter from John Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, Dover Street, London; 30 Mar. 1731
Date	30 March 1731
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports that there has been a great fire in the village of Gilded Moreton [Guilden Morden] which has left 10 or 11 families homeless and which is said to have started in Mr Oakley's farm house; adds that the population of the village have been favourable to the earl's interest in elections; writes that the cold and frost look to have damaged the wheat crop.
Term	fires, Guilden Morden
Term	agriculture, crops, frost damage

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA39282	Oakley; - (fl 1731); Mr; farmer of Guilden Morden Cambridgeshire	fl 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