Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
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    X95/291/119
  • Title
    From: Thomas Sworder, Luton; To: Thomas Sworder, Hertford;
  • Date free text
    29 Oct1857
  • Production date
    From: 1857 To: 1857
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    From: Thomas Sworder, Luton; To: Thomas Sworder, Hertford "I have not been successful in getting any money on the Fox. Money seems to be all locked up. I have since thought that if you could get some one to advance the money on the Deeds I have sent it would have a much better affect with the Bank as they would think you were suffering me with money & you might vary the letter you gave me on Saturday by saying you had sent me a cheque for immediate wants & would pay off the guarantee as soon as you possibly could. If I could have obtained the whole £1,400 (the purchase money of the Fox) I could get on swimmingly but if you could get me only £8 or £900 immediately it would enable me to pay the £514 Malt Duty due on Saturday next (31st) & also enable me to meet other payments amounting to £400 which I ought to have made a fortnight ago & which I have been obliged to postpone. I return the Letter you gave me on Saturday to alter according to the above suggestion if you think proper. I shall then be enabled to state to Mr.Bigg tomorrow that I can reduce my account more than the £600 a month which I promised to do a month ago & which was not acceded to. I may state that if John had gone on as last year he would have given me a cheque for this Duty but under present circumstances I do not think it advisable to ask him as he has I am sorry to say advised Charles to have nothing to do with malting, neither will he let the maltings he kept on in his name any longer. What he can be driving at I cannot conceive he is vain enough to think himself the main prop of the family but he has certainly of late tried hard to take a prop or two from me. I hope & trust you will be able to send a favourable answer - a stitch in time my perhaps answer in this case & prevent the Bank from being troublesome. Mr.Bigg would not even advance me £500 to pay the Duty, the Deeds being deposited with him as he has no power to incur the debt due. The Unity would perhaps lend the money for a week on a Deposit of the Deeds & my [unreadable word]."
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