Reference
HW87/193
Title
Letter: David Troup (Aspley) to Richard How II (at Messrs. Becker & Glurups, Copenhagen)
Date free text
27 Oct. 1752
Production date
From: 1752 To: 1752
Scope and Content
J. Everard has gone to Thistleworth & B. Post to London. J. Cook has died. George Huggins was rode over by a jockey (tho’ on horseback) about two weeks ago at Leighton & died. Mr. Ramsey has died. James de Borrale is recovering. Coll. Roberts lives at Crawley. Briggins was at Aspley for 6 or 7 weeks, went away with great reluctance, & wrote to his cousin Tibby to intercede with the old gentlewoman (Mariabella Briggins?) that he might not return to Luton, but she would not interfere: his father Richard How I persuaded him to make a second trial. Quarrel between Richard How I, who wanted to shut up a public way after Tilcock's death, & Cleavely's wife, Mr. Scott & Mr. Sowell (whom Richard How I called "a little puny schoolmaster" before the magistrates) Affair of widow Cook: she to possess the land & How to rent it: doubts whether profitable.
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