R4/4045

Correspondence of Thorney steward with Butcher; mainly leasing farms e.g. Massingarb's; sending cattle & sheep to London & Woburn; sending coleseed and oilcake by boat to Bedford; feeding sheep on coleseed; death, 1742 of James Scribo (bro. of the Steward) who had been in charge of the drainage works; ref. to Disbrowe as "such a one as would keep all the world in subjection to his haughty, proud spirit."

1741 - 1745

From: 1741 To: 1745

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Disbrowe, Platt,
Scribo, John,
Butcher, Robert,
Massingarb,
Scribo, James

Thorney, steward, estates correspondence, estate leases, farms, TRANSPORT, cattle, sheep, London, WOBURN, oilseed rape, mash feed, etc, BEDFORD, DEATH, DRAINAGE