Record

Document Reference	Pl C 27/18
Title	Letter from John Cleaver, Carburton, Nottinghamshire to [W.H.C. Bentinck] 3rd Duke of Portland; 28 Apr. 1779
Date	28 April 1779
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Returned from Chesterfield on Saturday and has been busy paying the bills and doing the accounts; has allowed the 'Navigators drive their Drift' far enough to get the coal in the next ground he viewed; would not let them go so far as to drain other people's coal, so as to get theirs and leave the duke's behind; refers to the cutting down of one of the duke's fences by Mr David Barns for Iron Stone; encloses (not present) an account of all the receivings together with an account of his expenditure and describes the income from the Newark rents; mentions his contact with Mr Brough and Mr Dakeynce; will await instructions about New Park; has heard that Mr Dakeyne is better; adds brief explanatory note about accounts.
Term	mining, coal
	rents, collection of
	financial affairs, Portland

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA40376	Dakeynce; - (fl 1779); Mr	fl 1779
NA40382	Barns; David (fl 1779); Mr	fl 1779
NA40378	Brough; Job (fl 1765-1779); Mr; solicitor	fl 1765-1779
NA32355	Cleaver; John (-1779); Mr; steward to 3rd Duke of Portland 1771-79	-1779
NA905	Bentinck; William H.C. Cavendish- (1738-1809); 3rd Duke of Portland; succ. 1762	1738-1809