Reference
P48/26/4
Title
Letter from Frogmore Cumming, Vicar of Keysoe, to Rev.J.Hailstone, Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge:
- enclosing 66/2/3 which, with 3 paid to Beadsman and 4 to Vicar of Barford, made up the year's rent;
- he had just had notice from Commissioners of Keysoe Inclosure of meeting to settle claim for modus set up by proprietors of old inclosures;
- he had inserted a clause for claims of this kind to be heard at assizes but hoped the claim would be dropped on his stating his objections;
- the modus appeared to him to be a composition entered into by a former vicar and the occupiers which had been continued by the successors, the terrier on which the modus was written, of 1707, set it up in lieu of all tithes;
- he had recovered from his broken blood vessel
Date free text
20 Jan 1804
Production date
From: 1804 To: 1804
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