| Content Description | Has asked Mr Streke to send a buck to Dover Street as per instructions from 'my Lord' [2nd Earl of Oxford]; fears that not enough money can be raised from rents to pay off the big debts but will do his best once the harvest expenses have been settled; writes that he and Robert Pate discovered Mr Peck beginning to cut down the barley crop and prevented him from doing so; a man was left guarding the field as Thomas Masthil was in Shepreth with his family bringing in the crop there.
Writes that he again found Mr Peck trying to take away the barley, this time with 6 or 7 men, and told him to leave since he had no right to be there as the farm was let to Thomas Masthil; adds that the constable was called but the men left with a small amount of barley which they left in a barn; reports a discussion with Mr York about the situation who advised Mr Masthil to bring in the crop as soon as possible; he could not do so, so the earl's teams are to do it under the eye of the constable. |