OR2339/34

Lord Antrim hesitates to rent the house "because of the ugly country surrounding it", had offered to let him fix his own rent, then 3 months rent free.

8 March 1881

From: 1881 To: 1881

Devon: gloomy, rents £100 lower than bad year of 1880. 5 of largest fields 'in hand'. Bourne the agent there says "the farmers there are all on the brink of ruin, chiefly owing to the low price of wool and to the sheep rot in 1879" bad weather for farmers wet and windy - high flood - no chance of drilling corn for a week visiting neighbours, reckons the Orlebars troubles 'no worse, perhaps not so bad as theirs, who are apparently far more prosperous in money'. foot and mouth disease nearly gone - a few of his sheep got the liver rot 'again very prevalent'.

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Orlebar, Richard,
Orlebar, Rouse,
Orlebar, Beauchamp,
Antrim,
Bourne

family correspondence, Hinwick House, Devon, farms, sheep