L30/11/301/233

Letter from Charles H Ware, Grays Inn to Amabel, Baroness Lucas.

8 Nov 1808

From: 1808 To: 1808

Reference to box at the theatre appropriated to Lord Somerville; No. 58, up one pair of stairs. Lady Warwick had the box last opera season. The Covent Garden Company will continue to perform at the King's Theatre during the remainder of the season, the opera nights excluded, and on those nights will play at the Little Theatre. If at the Little theatre they should not provide a box for Lord Somerville - an abatement will be made in the sum charged. Lady Lucas and Lady Grantham were not informed of this arrangement. Seeks appointment with Lady Lucas when she returns to Town; the power for Mr Wright of Shenfield is ready for execution as well as the deputation to Mr Miller of Burbage. The lease of Paradise Farm, Crudwell expired last Michaelmas. The old rent was £330 per annum. On the basis of a valuation acquired when the writer was with Mr Bowman the writer required £460 as a new rent for a term of 12 years and that the tenant should pay the land tax. The offer is to lay out £200 on repairs and pay a rent of £430 per annum. The writer considers this fair. The quantity of land is about 290 acres; but the tenant receives besides the tithes of other lands worth about £100 per annum. The writer has been over the farm at Shenfield; this is the farm to which it is proposed Samuel Clay (the younger son) should go. It contains about 270 acres and £370 a year is thought a fair rent. The present rent is only £130; it was reserved on a lease for 21 years which will expire at Michaelmas 1810.

item

Ware, Charles H,
Amabel, Baroness Lucas,
Wright,
Miller,
Bowman,
Clay, Samuel,
Somerville, Lord

estates correspondence, operas, Shenfield, Burbage, gamekeeper, Crudwell Paradize Farm, Crudwell, tithes, theatre