Record

Document Reference	Pw F 7188
Title	Letter from J. Nicolson, Hawkesdale [Hall, Cumberland] to [W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck] 3rd Duke of Portland; 18 Jul 1773
Date	18 July 1773
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Explains that an advert has appeared in a Belfast newspaper asking four or five hundred families to move to Whitehaven where they will live rent free for 3 years; expresses his opinion that this is a deliberate attempt by Sir James Lowther to outnumber the freeholders of Cumberland.
Term	publications, newspapers, Belfast
	disputes, legal, Portland v Lowther 1773
	politics, local, Cumberland
	bribery and corruption

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1050	Lowther; James (1736-1802); Earl of Lonsdale	1736-1802
NA35730	Nicolson; Joseph (fl 1767-1777); Mr; of Hawkesdale Hall; agent of the 3rd Duke of Portland in Cumberland; author of a history of Westmorland and Cumberland	fl 1767-1777
NA905	Bentinck; William H.C. Cavendish- (1738-1809); 3rd Duke of Portland; succ. 1762	1738-1809