L30/11/301/3

Letter from Charles H Ware, Gray's Inn to Amabel, Baroness Lucas.

2 Sep 1797

From: 1797 To: 1797

'Madam, I rece'd yesterday the honour of your ladyship's letter with Mr Whatley's enclosed which I have answered in the language directed. My journey to Colchester has given me considerable satisfaction. As far as I have had, at present, an opportunity of judging, there appears to me in Mr Firmin a proper disposition to do justice between your Ladyship and the Tenants. In his proposals for the farms, the leases of which will expire at Michaelmas, I think he has proceeded on proper grounds. Where he has proposed new tenants there appear to me to be sufficient reasons and there are no circumstances of distress in the old tenants to occasion your Ladyship any uneasiness. For want of a general plan the relative situation of the farms must be seen under a disadvantage but the surveyor has promised to exert himself to compleat it. Rough plans will be sufficient for use and I have desired that nothing more may be done without your Ladyship's order. As your Ladyship will not be in Town 'till about the 13th instant and the shooting season commences on the 14th, I submit to you that it will be proper to send such deputation as your Ladyship thinks proper to grant, to be signed by you in the Country. Mr Burges informs me that Samuel Swinfen of Broughton Astley in the county of Leicester has been hitherto gamekeeper for the Manor of Leire, and he recommends Richard Forryan the younger for Burbage and Sketchley. Richard Forryan the elder the old gamekeeper being now confined for debt in Leicester Gaol. Mr Firmin has been applied to by Mr Francis Slater Rebow of Wivenhoe Park near Colchester for your Ladyship's deputation for the Manor of Grunstead Hall upon the terms of sending game from time to time. Charles Wrinch is the name of the old gamekeeper as well for Greensted Hall as for Abbotts in Mile End and Fordham and Mr Firmin thinks he is a proper person to be continued for the two last or the three if Mr Rebow's offer should not be approved of. It will be proper to send down the deputations in time to get them registered with the Clerk of the Peace before the Season begins. Your Ladyship will probably desire that the letters which accompany the deputations, particularly that to Mr Rebow, if granted, should mention them as granted for the present in the language preferred on other occasions. I have the honour to be Madam, Your Ladyship's obliged and faithful humble servant, Charles H Ware.'

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Ware, Charles H,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Whatley,
Firmin,
Burgess,
Swinfen, Samuel,
Forryan, Richard,
Rebow, Francis Slater,
Wrinch, Charles

estates correspondence, legal correspondence, Colchester, agricultural leases, Leicestershire, game, gamekeeper, Sketchley, debt