L30/11/301/22

Letter from Charles H Ware, Gray's Inn, to Amabel, Baroness Lucas. [Typed transcript.]

24 Jan 1799

From: 1799 To: 1799

Madam, As your Ladyship has permitted me to name the hour on Monday I will be in St. James' Square at half past one which will enable me to suit a previous engagement. I inclose the proper receipts for the annuities to Mrs Brazier, Mrs Sandford (late dead) and Mlle. Karcher. Your Ladyship will perceive that Mrs Sandford's annuity has been paid to Mr Willows, her trustee, who undertook at the same time to deliver over your Ladyship's present to Ann Fairburn. Mr Mourgue's receipt is also inclosed. I have given notice of appeal against the surcharge of ye house tax and shall attend the commissioners for that purpose on the day appointed. The fair annual value of the house to be let can only be determined, I apprehend, by analogy; about 2 years ago I understood Lord Bristol's house was let to the Duke of Gordon for £600 per year furnished, Lord B. paying, I suppose, the taxes. If your ladyship should be aware of any other instances in which large houses have been let you will be pleased to mention the circumstances for my information when I have the honour of seeing you. I shall endeavour in the meantime to learn how other houses are rated. I take it for granted that your ladyship sees that the present is a mere question of more or less in the payment and involves in it no imputation of fault. I have seen the Revd. Mr Dyke's brother on the annexation of the parsonage house. The secretary to the bishop of the diocese has led him to doubt whether the annexation is practicable in this case; I can easily state Mr Dyke's difficulty in conversation and I believe it may as easily be divided but in the first instance it will be for you, Ladyship, to chose whether you will advance the amount of 2 years profits of the Living (about £1,000) to be paid off with interest by instalments. Mr D is equally willing to retain the house as his own or concur in the annexation; in a pecuniary point of view it is certainly his intent to retain it as from his age he is likely to live to pay all the instalments himself. I have the honour to be, Madam, your Ladyship's obliged and faithful humble servant, Chas. H Ware.

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Ware, Charles H,
Lucas, Amabel, Baroness,
Brazier,
Sandford,
Karcher, D M,
Willows,
Fairburn, Ann,
Mourgue,
Hervey, Frederick [4th Earl of Bristol],
Gordon, Alexander (4th Duke of Gordon),
Dyke

estates correspondence, London St James Square, annuities, rates, parsonages