Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/301/70
  • Title
    Letter from Charles H Ware, Gray's Inn, to Amabel, Baroness Lucas. [Typed transcript available]
  • Date free text
    10 Aug 1801
  • Production date
    From: 1801 To: 1801
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    'Madam, I received on Saturday the honour of your Ladyship's letter of the 7th inst., and send inclosed the receipts for the first installment of the income tax for the present year and for the half year's rent due to Mr Lewis at Midsummer last. I shall remain in your Ladyship's debt for the present for the two guineas (part of the last draft) to answer the Armorial Bearing Tax, as by an Act passed in the latter part of the last session it will in future be paid with the assessed taxes. I wrote to Mr Russell respecting the Reigate Turnpike securities on the 4th of last month but have not yet received his answer. If I do not hear from him in the course of this week I will write again. The lease of Flitton and Silsoe tithes remains with Messrs Snow & Co., the bankers to the college and I could not intitle myself to receive it without getting the counterpart executed by Mr Vernon and a bond for payment of the rent and performance of the covenants also executed by him. I thought it not improbable that when Lord Grantham shall attain 21 a new settlement of the estates might be thought proper, when, as your Ladyship wished a new trustee to be appointed instead of Mr Vernon, he might be required to assign the lease and that it would be as well to difer the application to him 'till that period as there is no power in the present settlement to appoint new trustees. In the meantime the lease is very safe in Mr Snow's hands. With respect to Mr Burges' accounts, I propose to go into Leicestershire about the end of this month when the crops will probably have been got in and the farmers a little more at leisure and I shall investigate the grounds on which I think the accounts objectionable. One of the Wiltshire farms will be out of lease at Michaelmas (William Hay's) the rent of which is now £70 per annum and as there are some accounts to be settled there I propose to go there soon after my return from Burbage. I have the honour to be, Madam, your Ladyship's obliged and faithful humble servant, Chas. H Ware. Perceiving a mistake in Mr Mourgue's receipt I sent it to be altered but he is gone out of town for two or three days. I will therefore retain it and sent it to your Ladyship the next opportunity. P.S. At the close of the last session of Parliament an Act was passed which will considerably lessen the expense of obtaining Inclosure Acts and I expect the Wiltshire landholders will be very pressing for your Ladyship's consent to an inclosure of the common fields there. On the strength of it HRH the Duke of Clarence has ordered me to solicit an inclosure act for Hampton. The object of the Act I allude to is to save the necessity of proving viva voce the consents of landowners etc. and by general powers to save the insertion of numerous clauses in separate Bills
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