R3/4719

Letter Reads- Pleased to report that conversation with Mr. Purser 2 days before had had some effect. Purser did produce a paper of calculations to show that one of his farms not worth having, but he overshot his mark for on looking at it Bennett saw he was not charged rent on it anyway. Finally Purser agreed to the terms as offered for 16 years. Explained to tenants that the prices were something below the average of the last 16 or 20 years. Explained benefits that whether continued to have protective corn trade or not, it was more convenient to have one uniform state of prices. Adjustment of rents not meant to get an extravagant rent but a fair one. Security given them for when prices settled down, a fixed rent means less problems with landlord than having recourse to continual complaints and petitions for abatement. Lord Ludlow's old groom, Nicholson worried about his income too being from his annuity. Bennett wants to know how he ought to describe the annuity. Heavy rains continue, now getting more of a river flood.

28 May 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

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Haedy, C,
Purser,
Bennett,
Ludlow, George James [3rd Baron Ludlow of Ardsallagh],
Nicholson

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