Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/8/43/2
  • Title
    Letter from Batty Langley, London.
  • Date free text
    22 November 1735
  • Production date
    From: 1735 To: 1735
  • Scope and Content
    Acknowledges 2 letters. Discussion of the estimate and prices of Mr Bishop compared with Langley's estimate for the new dining room. Thanks for offer of a Bantham Cock 'for which I should be very thankfull to your Grace; had not I already got a cock of ye game kind, to whom he'd become a sacrifice; not my Lord that I am a delighter in cockfighting But on ye contrary a Hater of it, as I am of all other Games, But for the undaunted courage of His nature, which sometimes gives me pleasure to contemplate.' Details of the brewhouse to be built [refers to plans that are not with the letter]. Estimates for the building and estimates for brewing vessels to both great and small brewery 'If I have them made in my own yard as for my self; and take the present oppertunity, now work is dead, to imploy journeymen of that business, whom I have secured...No 2 is an estimae of ye expence of ye carcass only, exclusive of those particulars sett forth in No 3 which it be best to have performed by my backmakers, who better know them, than carpenters do; because thereon their vessels &c are fix'd in their own proper manner - and the brickwork to both coppers I must see executed and not have it hurry'd for therein much care is required, otherwise double ye quantity of fuel may be expended more than need be.' 'Mr Bishop called on me, with an abundance of complaints...' 'Mr Gordon called on me this afternoon; but being at an unhappy moment, when my most dearest son Euclid, a child of ab't 2 years and 1/2 age the most manly child that nature ever form'd, departed this life, as idd my daughter Caroline a child of one year old, on ye last Monday that I was at Rest. So that I desired him to call again on too morrow - If I have not fully answer'd your Graces Letters - please to excuse me being almost distracted with ye loss of my son in whom I had placed my most tender affection...' 'PS I shall be glad to have your Grace's answer as soon as can be relating to ye brewing vessels, for if any new Jobb should happen I loose ye workmen.'
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