Reference
L30/14/125/3
Title
Correspondence:
Date free text
c. 1770
Production date
From: 1770 To: 1770
Scope and Content
Sent Lady Robinson account of money disbursed for Sir Norton Robinson; latter in good health, needed hat, pair of gloves, 2 pair stockings, 6 nightcaps and handkerchiefs, cost £2..11..0 and sent to Grimthorp by Clement Seller. Rectifies mistake in cost of enclosure of Clifton Moor - should be £1,402..12..3. Lady Robinson will claim only £600 and interest at 4%; Act obtained in spring 1763 and divisions and roads finished 1765, therefore compute interest from Midsummer 1764.
Further financial details of Lady Robinson and Sir Norton... "Clement Seller sais his Master never names his Brother's Death, and seems to have forgot him". Was at Aldfield to see Mr Aislabie put in possession of close Sir William had promised to let him. At Newby, pastures stocked by Christopher Smith who has been very ill.
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