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Document Reference	Pl C 1/742
Title	Letter from [John] Cossen, Wimpole, to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, Dover Street, London; 13 Sep. 1733
Date	13 September 1733
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Reports that a servant putting hot ashes in a wooden box has caused Mr Gulston's house at Wyddyal near Buntinford to be burnt down, along with many of his goods and papers; writes that a square box has arrived for Lady Margaret [later Duchess of Portland] and suspects it has come from Mr Watts at Welbeck; will send it on tomorrow.
Term	fires, Wyddial
Term	gifts, for Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA39319	Gulston; - (fl 1733); Mr; of Wyddial Cambridgeshire	fl 1733
NA1079	Bentinck; Margaret Cavendish (1715-1785); Duchess of Portland; née Cavendish-Harley; dau. of 2nd Earl of Oxford; m 2nd Duke of Portland 1734	1715-1785
NA39320	Watts; - (fl 1733); Mr; of Welbeck	fl 1733
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