Reference
R3/10/8
Title
Letter from George Collop of Bedford House to Anthony Senhouse of Thornhaugh
Reads- Poor Noone's debt is very great - what you have seized I doubt will fall short for the arrears of rent. It would be well if his wife and children were out of the farm. We have had much to do for the trial - Mr. Ekins, though he had promised, not signing a rule for trial at Nottingham, and Thomas Fanshaw pricking the jury out of the freeholders' book, we knew not whether it would be this assize; but now it is to be this assizes at Nottingham; jury settled; counsel Sergt. Wilmot, Mr. George Cure & Mr. Lovell; they have retained Sergt. Newdigate & Mr. Bigland, and for attorney Mr. Bigland (we Mr. Athorp). I hope we have gotten a good jury and that care will be taken for the evidence, and that Hawkins will prove a good witness. But what you write touching Gray (that he lived in Wansford in the best farm & never paid anything considerable towards the repairs) seems not to me to be there; but I hope he may call to mind as an inhabitant of Wansford, as Wansford alone chargeable with the bridge; or as an inhabitant of the county, for if he makes himself to have paid as an inhabitant of Wansford only, his evidence will be against us, otherwise for us. But methinks you may find old witnesses for the repair of the bridge e.g. in Northamptonshire (better than Hunt.) The next thing to be proved will be Huntingdon side to be repaired by Hunts; and if besides in the year 1671 you can prove it formerly so repaired it would be well. The next is to prove the (letter?); Captain Guy is gone down & will be at Lord Montague's; you and Mr. Ring may, by comparing the hand with old deeds, be able to prove it; then you may have a breviat of Captain Guy. My lord remembers Mr. Hawkins' kindness as to Fai-tet (?) fen Perhaps old records of the county's being charged may be found at Peterborough. I leave London Tuesday. My service to Dr. Alleyn. It is so dark I cannot see to read it over, so conceive well of mistakes.
Date free text
26 Jun 1673
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From: 1673 To: 1673
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