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From: Samuel Whitbread I To: Thomas Strong I ws very sorry not to see you that Evening I staid as long as I possibly could. I beg of you to keep it in your name as I know the Family & will give you sufficient reason. You can talk more freely with Mr.Bray, but whom you please & if you want more advicing can add another before October; to be sure it must be well made out & be secure & it has all that appearance, as Mr.Collett if they sold the other ten, for they first advertised 17 thousand. If Rountres was concerned that indeed is no credit to it; you said he was there. However the whole is no great risque. I am very easy about it. It is too cheap, makes the least jealousy. My Bailiff says the other is a fine farm & the tennant very desirous to continue at the Rent. Don't inform Collett who for, but that you take it yourself & tell Dyke it is to be conveyed to you [Note: Bray may be William Bray, attorney, of 61 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London; Dyke is probably a partner in Skinner & Dyke, auctioneers of 87 Aldersgate Street, London]

Thursday Morning, late c18th

From: 1770 To: 1796

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Bray,
Bray, William,
Whitbread, Samuel I,
Strong, Thomas,
Collett,
Dyke,
Skinner & Dyke,
Rountres

auctioneers, specific solicitors, farms, bailiffs, rentals