Reference
OR1909
Title
Letter from Nathaniel Bardolph to John Orlebar.
Bardolphe’s son has been at Woolwich and finds the wages no more than 11 shillings a week and has since been with Mr. Byng who has promised to remove him either to Chatham or Portsmouth.
Date free text
March 18 1728/9.
Production date
From: 1728 To: 1729
Scope and Content
He has summoned 10 men from Haynes parish the same from Wilstead and Elstow to dig gravel and ‘scour the road which I intend to begin to plow on Wednesday next and shall turn George Crowder’s water into the road at the same time and harrow so as to wash the dirt away and fully believe that from Wilstead Hill to the Towne will be easily mended by water’ It will be a great hurt to Bedford if Orlebar lays aside the making of a good road to please ‘four or five persons that spoyle the roads more than all others and have filled our town with poor’.
(probably referring to OR1883)
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