W1/6628

From: Samuel Whitbread I at Bedwell: To: Thomas Strong I did intend to have been at the sale this Evening. Mr.Cosgrave whom you will see there & may speak to by yourselves, has given me all the information proper. I would have you attend the Sale. I think it will go up to 16,000; the Cowper family threaten everybody as they want it much on acct. of its being near them & they have yet no Manor. However it will sell just as persons shall value Lady Cathcart's life. Cosgrave's valuation is at 2 years. I think it right; some value Her Life at 7 or 10. Sometimes you knew these take a strange turn & sell very low or very high; therefore I trouble you I give you a Commission to bid for me Fourteen Thousand Pounds for which I will be answerable Postscript: direct to me at Cardington this Evening On Dorse: On second thoughts Mr.Cowper will know for whom you bid so I must ask you to get another person & think Cosgrave as well as any one or whom else you think proper to & not to bid till late, then perhaps there will be no occasion to bid at all. I should not like Cowper to know I bid: goe in Time [Note: According to GEC Complete Peerage Volume III page 105, Elizabeth, Lady Cathcart died 3 Aug 1798 in her 98th year at Tewin [Hertfordshire], which had been an estate of her first husband. The Manor being sold is likely to be the Manor of Tewin. The Cowpers lived at Panshanger, near Tewin]

18 Jul 1783

From: 1783 To: 1783

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Whitbread, Samuel I,
Strong, Thomas,
Cathcart, Lady Elizabeth,
Cowper,
Cosgrave

general manors and manorial, general auction sales, specific solicitors, Tewin