R3/4653

Letter Reads- Ford & Irving: legal proceedings about tile-machine against 2 local parties; they have refused to take back the machines, which lie at some wharf on river. They did not refused to take ours back. Letter from Boulton. Application from Hen. Platt for Prisley. Mild season, but distress in villages from slackness of work; suggest Duke gives 1 to Aspley. Calculation for Burness' capital, and breaking-up of new land. Faggots are good to put over tiles but not so good as ling, but all add to expense, esp. carriage. Tax appeals; assessment of Duke's farms in hand and also of Abbey, and woodlands.

21 Jan1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

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Haedy, C,
Ford,
Irving,
Boulton,
Platt, Henry,
Burness

tile making, DRAINAGE, letters, WOBURN, Woburn Abbey