R3/5100

Letter This letter encloses a letter from a Mr Robbins in connection with an application for a methodist chapel at Woburn Sands. Mentions that the reply given by Mr Haedy was appropriate. Refers to partridges on Speedwell and Grange farms. Comments that the indiscriminate payment for nests encourages the search for them - many were found for "the sake of the reward" which would not otherwise have been seen. Mr Bennett conjectures that it may be because there is plenty of work at good wages or because there is no reward now, that there is so little disturbance to game and pheasants eggs. Hopes for the quiet settlement of the Corn Laws now the House of Lords has given the bill a second reading. Comments that Lords Grey and Dalhousie replied "pretty well to Lord Stanley's flash speech".

31 May 1846

From: 1846 To: 1884

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Haedy, C,
Robbins,
Bennett,
Stanley, Lord,
Dalhousie, Lord,
Grey, Lord

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