L30/14/246/3

From Kender Mason and Company, London to 2nd Baron Grantham:

26 Nov 1773

From: 1773 To: 1773

Thank Grantham for his letter of 18 October and for the notice he has taken of their affairs in his letters to Mr Draper. The sum originally attached by Polier is not the only considerable one they have the right to demand in Spain, as accounts sent Mr Brickdale verify, showing that they are owed by: The Assiento Company £1522.16.6 Anthony Enrile and Co. £1290.9.10 John Brickdale £1405.14.10 Strange and Malone £923.9.11* *the latter sum exclusive of what Strange and Malone owe them in consequence of Polier's money being paid into their hands by Mr Brickdale, before he had ever acquainted them of having received it. Mention these particulars as Brickdale appears in Grantham's letter to Draper to be equally interested in the recovery of the money so unjustly detained. As a partner in the House, its recovery will of course lessen his debt to them. Brickdale was certainly wrong in paying the money into Malone's hands, and has been the cause of the present trouble. Masons would have been happier if according to their first wishes the sum attached when freed had passed into Grantham's keeping.

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Mason & Company,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Draper,
Brickdale,
Assiento Company,
Enrile, Anthony,
Brickdale, John,
Strange,
Malone