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Letter from Thomas Parsons at Irchester [Northamptonshire]: "Yours to hand yesterday morning respecting the lease of Farm. If Major Brooks takes into consideration the money the property sold for & one cottage fallen down since the first lease, which amounts to nineteen pounds & take two pounds off for repairs taxes &c, leaves seventeen which is only a reduction of three pounds, if the Major looks at it in that light, I think he will allow me something what he thinks right. Farming does not look very bright now, we have had an enormous quantity of rain, cannot get on the land, I don't know whether I am doing right in taking the land on a 14 years lease, but I am giving up some of my other land, and I should like to Keep this as long as I am fit for any business. The cottages sold, the one occupied by Joseph Walden he still lives in, the one occupied by Sarah Thompson, now William Payne one nearly joining occupied by James Smith, now Bletsoe Neal, the one occupied by D.Tombs fell down."

8 May 1882

From: 1882 To: 1882

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Parsons, Thomas,
Brooks, John Hatfield,
Walden, Joseph,
Tombs, Daniel,
Smith, James,
Neal, Bletsoe,
Thompson, Sarah,
Payne, William

estates correspondence, agricultural leases, Irchester