WY990/42

Letter addressed to 'My dear Lord' and signed from his nephew Stuart Wortley [James Archibald Stuart-Wortley?]. The writer is executor of his grandmother Lady Bute.

19 Apr 1815

From: 1815 To: 1815

Lady Bute took out shares in the Barnsley Canal just before her death. The canal runs through one of the estates but the shares were her personal property and therefore, under her will, William’s, but £1,100 was owing to the estate for the land used and before he could get the shares he would have to pay this.

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Stuart, Mary Wortley [Countess of Bute],
Stuart, William,
Stuart Wortley, James Archibald

shares, canals, Barnsley, family correspondence