R3/3690

Reads- Financial details. The cold land tenants are in a bad way; serious loss from rot in sheep in previous years is now visibly felt; Poole could not pay anything, Favell & Desborough increased arrears, also Hawley; Fletcher paid nothing, & the people (Bright's) to whom I let his farm have declared off. Don't know what to do with him. Sharpe did not appear (suspect he is also behind with Polhill). Beau - Banford (?) has asked Duke for Sunday School at Eaton; told him Duke could hardly do that. There is no building to accommodate them - about 260 children, large parish; suggested he try to raise subscriptions among proprietors.

29 July 1831

From: 1831 To: 1831

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Poole,
Favell,
Desborough,
Hawley,
Fletcher,
Bright,
Sharpe,
Polhill,
Banford,
Duke of Bedford

family/personal financial affairs, tenancy, sheep, diseases, debt, agricultural leases, farms, Sunday Schools, EATON BRAY, buildings and land use, CHILDREN, parish, money