Reference
X266/22
Title
J Baxter, Wragby, to Edmund Turnor, esquire, Bolton Street, near Piccadilly
Date free text
7 Nov 1721
Production date
From: 1721 To: 1721
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Is replying for Mr Bradshaw, now in Derbyshire, concerning the vicarage of Milton. Writer has a copy of the settlement of the rectory and parsonage impropriate on trustees to uses, in which it is said that the advowson and right of presentation to vicarage belongs to it. Turnor's grandfather and father gave the writer hope of succeeding Mr Hawkins, as well as Sir Thomas Rolt, his son Mr Rolt of Milton and Mr Adamson. Writer did not doubt of Sir Justinian Isham's and Colonel Harrison support, if Turnor concurred, which he obviously does not. Writer knows nothing of purchase of impropriation, except that the deeds were in the possession of Mr Waterson who probably gave them to Mr Hawkins. Does not think that the impropriation was purchased of the Rolt family, though perhaps the patronage to the vicarage was
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