R3/4558

Letter Reads- Yorke: advice to Duke to terminate tenancy based on state of farm; life he has led for many years not taken into account, but it has quite unfitted him for business. Hope son will be better, but fear contrary, but father took boy with him, when a child, from one pub.-house to another. Lamentable. Introduced by Lord Ossory, & placed in a position to be looked up to; but no one dare meet him, for he is sure to insult & abuse. People speak of Lord Holland's kindness in keeping him as tenant, no other landlord would. If Duke keeps Yorke, he must keep Allen; then next year how can Duke part with Best who is the representative of tenants of 70 years standing. Meeting Simpson at Chenies tomorrow; town Thursday. Sale of Eaton: if a good offer, it may beadvisable to part with it Knotting. Doubt Lord St. John buying.

17 May 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

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Haedy, C,
Yorke,
Ossory, Lord,
Holland, Lord,
Allen,
Best, Barber,
Simpson,
St.John, Lord

farms, letters, WOBURN, Woburn Abbey, Chenies, KNOTTING