Reference
R3/108
Title
Letter from J. Wing, Stratton Park
Reads- Apologies for delay in accounts. Have let Micheldever tithes to occupiers, except Bristow who has not yet come. Mr. Dowden will take Thompson's bargain for 8 a year, and can now afford two labourers in the house to work for him during the summer. As yet nobody has enquired about the farms we have in hand; so I have drawn up an advertisement in which the quantity of land in each is specified. Perhaps you would like to put it in the Salisbury and Reading papers. We expect to start the wheat harvest soon; the crops are good but crops of summer grain are light in this country owing to the extra-ordinary drought. The great complaint of travellers on the new turnpike road to Winchester, of the badness of the road through Worthy Water has put the commissioners upon several schemes for making that road, and for making a new road below the church across the meads in which they desired me to assist them. I remembre your grace didn't want to obstruct or damage the springs that rise there, which are the are the only waters that supply the old Mill stream for the watering Hyde Abbey Meads etc. etc.
Date free text
4 Jul 1762
Production date
From: 1762 To: 1762
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