Record

Document Reference	Pl C 38/11
Title	Letter from Thomas Fox, 'Knarsbrough' to John Lucas, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London; 12 Feb. 1716/7
Date	12 February 1717
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Suggests that if he is not permitted to wait until Trinity term to come to London and pay the arrears of the [1st] Duke [of Portland]'s rents, he will come after the assizes are over; assures him that he has not been collecting interest on the money while it has been in his hands; hopes that the cask of Yorkshire ale has arrived safely at Smarts Key at 'Billinsgate'; adds instructions on how to let the ale settle and when to bottle it. Letter dated 12 February 1716.
Term	estate business, Yorkshire
	accounts, Yorkshire
	domestic affairs, provisions

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA1044	Bentinck; Henry (1682-1726); 1st Duke of Portland; 2nd Earl of Portland; cr. 1716; styled Viscount Woodstock 1689-1709	1682-1726
NA40743	Fox; Thomas (fl 1715-1719); Mr; collector of rents at Knaresborough	fl 1715-1719
NA40443	Lucas; John (fl 1714-1759); Mr; of the Inner Temple; agent to the Dukes of Portland	fl 1714-1759