Finmere in the Huntington: 1845–1849

1845/01/25

Mixbury Jany 25 1845

Dear Sir

I beg leave to inclose the collectors receipt for July property tax 2/11 which you paid me at Finmere on the 30th December. I request the favour of your directing the parties who are required by his Grace to pay the next charge on their respected farms to pay in to my account at the Buckingham Bank the several sums due on the first instalment being in amount the same as the last payments this being the second half of the year 1844 – and also that the part paid by his Grace may be paid to me as soon as convenient. I remain

Your very obedient

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thos Beards

1845/03/12

Sir

I have received by your inclosure a cheque of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham for £117 5s 10d – for which I will send you a proper receipt as soon as I have got one.

your humble & obedt Servt

W. J. Palmer

Mixbury
March 12
Mr Thomas Beards

1845/03/20

Finmere March 20 1845

Dear Sir

I enclose a receipt for the cheque you sent me last week for £117 5s 10d which I presume us intended to be clear of income tax for which it would be proper that I should have a receipt. At the same time I observe that it exceeds the final payment of the year by £1 4s 10d and I would ask therefore if I have not received too much by that at least I make according to the tables £255 7s 7d to be the whole rent of charge for the year from which the income tax is to be taken. I think his Grace’s cheque secd in November was for

116

1

–

now

117

5

10

233

6

10

leaving for the

tax

5

10

2

238

17

–

yours obed

W. J. Palmer

1845/03/23

Stowe
23rd March 1845

Mr Robt Greaves Finmere nr Buckingham

Sir

I enclose you a Cheque for Seven Pounds Seven Shillings and six pence and will thank you to return me a receipt as soon as possible.

T Beards B [sic]

1845/04/21

Stowe 21st April 1845

H Bull Esq Aston Clinton

Dear Sir

I propose being at Aston Abbotts on Thursday next […] As regards the former affair if only Old Palmer he had one side of the question I should like to know what is done in the matter.

Beards

1845/06/20

Sir

I have taken the liberty of including

a cheque in his Grace’s favour for

a cheque in his Grace’s favour for

8

17

1

together with receipt for tax

2

11

£

9

–

& shall be obliged to you at your leisure for a receipt for half a years rentand am

yours true and obedt Sevt

W. J. Palmer

Mixbury June 20

Mr Thomas Beards

1845/06/22

Stowe
22nd June 1845

His Grace the Duke of Buckingham & Chandos 91 Pall Mall, London

My Lord Duke

The value of the Finmere living is

The value of the Finmere living is
Gross Rent charge £

457

0

0

£48 1s 7p of Glebe lands after
deducting £14 rent charge
on the above amount is

40

0

0

Gross annual value

497

0

0

The outgoings vary but on average
cannot be less than

60

0

0

Clear

437

0

0

From the best information I can obtain the Revd W. J. Palmer the rector is in his 70th year. [1]

[… other matters]

T Beards

1845/09/12

Stowe
12 Sept 1845

Rev Palmer Esq

On my return home a day or two since I found your letter but as the same is without a date I cannot say to a day how long since it arrived. I am aware it relates to the rent charge for the present year.

As to the amount due for the lands, the Duke pays for I believe £119. 2. 2. to be gross sum

Deduct income tax

3

9

5

115

12

9

paid to [sic] much 1 st January

1

4

10

Due 1 July

117

7

10

The payment for the other parties you name I have nothing to do with I have informed the Duke you have applied for the half year due 1 July & soon as his Grace give me an order for payment it shall have my immediate attention.

TB

1845/09/30

Notes: This is undated by Palmer. ‘Sept 30 1845' written in another hand, presumably by the Estate Office. I beg leave to remind you that no part of the Rent Charge for the tythe of Finmere due on the first of July last has been paid in, and that on the whole is due from his Grace. I am under the necessity of requesting your attention to it. (If I have made no mistake.) I make from Hillick’s[2] tables for the year the amount due from the several holdings to be as follows for the whole year:

His Grace in hand

}

30

15

5¾

by himself or Poor [3]

Mr Hardings

109

5

9¾

Paxton

90

–

1¼

Barrett

87

16

1¼

Baylis

–

13

2½

Clarke

2

4

3¾

Tredwele

52

9

7 ¾

Shepphard

46

–

–

I hope you will be able to provide for the half of their amounts respectively before the end of the present month. There appears to be a mistake in the last payment made by his Grace in March by £1 4s 10d – to be allowed for by deduction from the payments to be made now.

I am
your very obedt servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thos Beards

1845/10/13

Mr Barrett has been with me today & informs me that the half years rent charge due on the first of July last would have been paid had the parties who are directed to pay it in the Duke of Buckingham’s behalf been made acquainted with the amount required of them. I beg leave to remind you that I made you acquainted with the several amounts according to the provisions of the act as his Grace’s agent – you are no doubt aware that I have no claim – or demand upon the tenants in any case but only on the owners and that the main object of the commutation law, wise or not, was to dissolve the connection formerly subsisting [sic] in respect of the tythe between the occupier and the tythe owner and remove it to the owners of lands & of course I can take no objection to give a receipt to any person who brings me money but in this case it is not for me to say what sum a person on whom I have no demand of claim must bring. I hope therefore some will see that in stating the amounts due on different apportionments, it is for you if correct, to direct whom his Graces pleases to pay them. I remain

Your Obedt Servt

W. J. Palmer

1845/10/21

Stowe 21st Oct 1845

Revd W J Palmer Mixbury Brackley

Sir

If you will leave you the receipt at the Buckingham Bank I will leave the amount of the half year rent charge due on the 1st July last the amount after deducting Income tax on a small sum overpaid by mistake amount to I believe £114 8s 0d. In reference to your last letter I am not aware of any law that compels me as Agent to the Duke of Buckingham to interfere as the rent charge payable out of the farm of Mr W Barretts occupation. I shall not give notice nor interfere in the matter. My firm belief is that you only have to ask Mr Barrett for the amount when due & which you will have paid without trouble.

T Beards

1845/10/22

Mixbury October 22 – 45

Sir

I shall have lodged on Friday next a receipt to his Grace at the Buckingham bank according to your desire for 114. 0. – for the half years rent charge due on the first of July on the occupations of Messrs Hardy and Paxton & Property in hand. I beg to assure you my wish that you should inform the parties who are expected to pay the several portions of rent charges for the lands in their respective holdings was only for the purpose of satisfaction to his Grace and to save that which it was provided by the statute of commutation to save and not to require of you what is not as you think your part or office to do.

Perhaps however for the future it will be best for me to leave the whole business in your hands as his Grace’s agent without troubling myself about it, but merely serving the occupiers with notice if the whole rent charge is not paid within the number of days allowed and specified with the Act of Parliament after it become due. I am

Your obedt Servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thos Beards

1846/03/31

Mr Palmer begs to inform Mr Beards that when the Rent Charge is paid he shall be ready to give him a receipt.

Mixbury March 31 – 1846

1846/06/20

Mr Palmer apologies to Mr Beards for having over looked the notice for Friday the 16th June and inclosed in this a cheque for the half years rent that should have been paid then.

Mixbury June 20 1846

1846/12/17

Mr Palmer begs leave to inclose a cheque

for

8

17

1

income tax

2

11

9

–

–

for half years rent to his Grace which should have been paid on the Rent day according to notice yesterday. He is sorry he has mislaid the collectors receipt for the income tax but hopes that it is of no importance. Mr Thomas Beards

1847/04/05

Mixbury April 5 1847

Sir

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of his Grace’s draft for £229 –s 6d for which I will forward a receipt in form as soon as I can get a stamp.

I am
your very obedt servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thomas Beards

1847/04/29

Mr Palmer begs leave to inclose Mr Beards a receipt for last years commutation rent charge received a short while since.

Mixbury April 29

1847/06/28

Mr Palmer respects to the Duke of Buckingham’s Steward and not expecting to be at home at the ensuing rent day to take the liberty of inclosing a cheque for the last half years rent now in the course of payment.

———

cheque

8

17

1

Income tax paid

–

2

11

Half years rent

£

9

–

–

Mixbury June 28 – 47

1847/10/27

Mixbury Oct 27 / 47

My Lord

By your Lordship’s reply to my letter on the subject of the rent charge with which I was favoured a short time since, I perceive that Mr Beards not rightly understanding the business had misinformed yr Lordship on the subject, I have therefore no written to him to shew him his mistake suggesting him at the same time to explain the matter to yr Lordship.

By hand delivery
The Marquess of Chandos

I am my Lord
With the greatest respect
Your Lordship’s
Most faithful
& obedient

(Signed)

W.J. Palmer

1847/10/30

[Front of letter]

Finmere Oct 30th/47

Dear Sir

I have summoned Mr Palmer for Poors Rate to attend at Bicester on Monday Nov 8th. I have tonight received the enclosed, shall I let it take its course or will you recommend what is to be done, if you wish I will come and see you on the subject.

Yours
Truly and Obliged

Jno Paxton

to Mr Beards

[Back of letter]

3

4

15

1

0

1

4

0

10

0

0

5

5

16

5

16

11

8

1847/11/22

Dear Sir

I inclose here with the receipt you desire to the Marquess of Chandos for £102 19 – and I agree with your suggestion as to the most convenient mode of managing the future payments so long as the Rent Charge apportionment remains unaltered. Since you are [sic] become my correspondent in this affair I take the liberty of saying that circumstances render it expedient for me to require future payments of the Rent Charge to be made on their becoming due, that is to say within twenty one days of the first of January and the first of July, and I hope there will be no necessity for my applying by notice of distress to Mr John Paxton and others for what they didn’t seem willing to pay at the same times they think themselves obliged to require payment from me. Hoping that you will be enabled to return me a satisfactory answer on this head. I remain

Yours very faithfully

W. J. Palmer

Mixbury Nov 22 1847

John Fellowes Esq

1847/10/27

Mixbury October 27, 1847

Sir

I have consulted the commissioners and find I was right in supposing that the alteration in the proportion of the land affects the owner of a rent charge until the same appears in the schedule of apportionment.

Consequently I have to receive under the name of the Duke of Buckingham as Proprietor at the hand of the Occupier (if necessary) the whole sum that may be due on the lands in his occupation.

Mr Paxton having applied as I understand for a summons against me to pay the poors rate for which I blame him not, will not blame me I presume as soon as I receive it I serve him with a notice to distrain for the rent charge to enable me to pay the rate.

And as no doubt the same position as to the rate will be repeated at the beginning of the next and every successive quarter, I am bound to tell you that from this time I shall be under the necessity of requiring the payment of the rent charge as it becomes due with usual punctuality.

As it appears from Lord Chandos’ answer to my letter that he has been misinformed by you upon this subject, I request the favour of you to explain to him your mistake. I am sir

Your humble hand

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thos Beards

1847/10/22

Mixbury October 22 – 47

Sir

In reply to your received by this mornings post I have to observe that the amount stated as due on the account of Mr Harding’s occupation is right and I shall be ready to receive it by any hand if it may please my Lord Chandos it should be paid allowing for deduction of income tax. But with the respect to the arrangements consequent upon part of Mr Paxton’s occupation reverting to the former proprietor and also part of the occupation described in the tythe Commissioners apportionment as the Dukes property in hand. I conceive that it is nothing to me till the apportionment is altered, and consequently that I have to look to my land charges to my Lord Chandos on behalf of the Duke for the whole of the half years payments that may be due on these and as they become due, as appears at present from the schedule or deed of apportionment by the Commissioners. However, lest I should be in error on this point I shall consult the Commissioners at their office early next week and will inform Lord Chandos thro you of the result.

I am
Your obedt servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thomas Beards

1847/10/31

Sir

For the amount that may be due to me for the tythe commutation Rent Charge for the Parish of Finmere on the first of July I beg to refer you to Hillock’s[4] tythe commutation tables for the correct year – as it appears you are likely to see the Marquess of Chandos on Wednesday next I request you to present him the letter here with inclosed. And am

Your very Obdt Servt

W. J. Palmer

1848/01/19

Mixbury Jany 19

Sir

Finding that I have fixed a day for receiving the rent charge at Finmere on which Mr Barrett & Tredwell are required to appear at Stowe, I beg leave to apprise you that I intend to be present at Finmere for the purpose named at the same hour on Monday 31st instead of Monday the 24th.

I am your humble servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thomas Beards

1848/01/13

Mixbury Jany 13 – 48

Sir

I beg leave to inform you that I shall attend at the Parsonage House at Finmere on Monday the 24th January at 11 o’clock in the fore-room for the purpose of receiving the tythe commutation rent charge due on the 1st instant and amYour humble servant

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thomas Beards

1848/04/29

[Folio 1ff]

Carlton Club, Pall Mall, 29 Apr 1848

Marquis of Breadablane
Sir Alexander Grant
The Revt George Chetwode
The Marquis of Chandos

[…]The [2nd] Duke [Chandos], Richard; Marquess of Chandos (1839); 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1862) to pledge himself to authorize the sale of such of the Chandos Estates that are now unsold.

1848/05/09

[Folio 5ff]

Marquis of Breadablane
The Revt George Chetwode
The Duke of Buckingham [2nd]
The Marquis of Chandos [2nd]

[List of main debts, total £1,094,000]

[The Duke wants to keep Hillesden] […] to see Mr Barker and to propose to him that the other property advertised for sale to morrow (the 10th of May) should be offered before the Hillesden Estate and in the event of the Astwell, Finmere and Thornborough Estates being disposed of that the reserved price for the Hillesden Estate be 140,000£ either for sale at that auction or by private treaty but if Astwell, Finmere and Thornborough should not be sold at that Auction then the price of the Hillesden Estate should remain as fixed.

1848/05/10

My Lord

I beg to forward your Lordships the results of today’s sale. I am your Lordships faithful Servt

Henry Smith

London
10 May

Finmere Estate

£

 

Put it at

24,000

 

Bona fide Bidding

27,700

 

Bought in at

31,300

 

reserve

30,000

say 29,000 [5]

[Details of other estates]

1848/05/10

10 May 1848

Hillesden and other sales

 

Bonâ fide
biddings

reserves

Hillesden

99,500

127,000

Finmere

27,700

30,000

Astwell

55,000

62,000

Thornborough

18,600

20,000

Stockholt F m

7,000

7,700

Spoke to Mr Smith about the effect of the failure in selling yesterday. Went to Lincolns Inn. Saw Williams at Barker’s with Field & Robson. Considered reduction in the reserves of the Estates put up yesterday.

1848/05/15

Sir

The Day for receiving the Rent due from you at Lady Day last, to the MARQUIS OF CHANDOS, is Monday, the 19th day of June next at the New Inn, at Stowe, at Ten o’Clock in the morning:- punctual attendance is requested

I am
SIR
Your obedient Servant

THOMAS BEARDS

Stowe
15 May 1848

1848/07/08

Mixbury July 8 – 48

Mr Palmer will attend at the Parsonage at Finmere on Tuesday the 25 July from eleven to twelve o’clock in the forenoon to receive the tythe commutation rent charge due on 1st instant. Mr Thomas Beards

The amount for the whole year 1848 inc the holdings of Mr Paxton and Mr French (late Harding) noted in the deed of apportionment on the property of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham & Chandos, and of lands in hand is as follows:

Mr Paxtons

96

5

3¾

Mr French

107

6

10

In hand

30

7

5½

 

233

19

7¼

PS

If more convenient the half year be paid to the Beards

W. J. P.

1848/08/19

Mr Thomas Beards

Mixbury Augst 19 – 48

Sir

Not having received any notice form you in reply to my circular of last month fixing a day for the receipt of the tythe commutation rent charge for the parish of Finmere, I request the favour of being informed whether you received it and if you did whether I am to understand it to be the Marquess of Chandos’ wish that I should apply to the tenants of the lands held by Mr John Paxton & late Richard Harding.

I am your obdt servt

W. J. Palmer

1848/08/23

Sir In reply to your favour received this morning I have to say that the tithe commutation rent charge for the present year is as follows:

 

£

s

d

Lands in hand & left to the labourers

30

7

5½

Lands in Mr Paxton’s occupation

96

5

3 ¾

Lands in Mr French [sic] occupation

107

6

10

£

233

19

7¼

of which one moiety became due on the first of July.

With regard to Paxtons occupation and the land left to the labourers I am aware that part if to be paid by Colonel Hall as owner – but I have no means of determining which part, which I must request the favour of you to inform me that I may apply to Mr Hall’s agent or tenant.

I am your
very humble servant

W. J. Palmer

Mixbury
Augst 23

Mr Thos Beards

1848/08/25

Mixbury Aust 25 – 1848

Sir

Probably the statement your letter contains the amount of the apportionment rent charge on the property of Lord Chandos at Finmere in hand and in the occupation of Mr Paxton is quite correct, but as I have not the means of separating it from the property which is understood to be Colonel Halls, but which is described in the deed of apportionment as the property of the Duke of Buckingham. I must request you who have the means to do it for me. I am very sorry to be obliged to trouble you thus far, but if you will favour me with the amount of that part which is due from Colonel Halls estate making up the whole of what is described to me as the Dukes I need not trouble you further.

I am your
very humble servant

W. J. Palmer

P. S. I shall be glad to purchase if I can the cottages alluded to by Mr Smith.

Mr Thomas Beards

1848/09/?

The following letters were received by Sir Alexander Grant and by the referees previous to the receipt of the last named letter[6] but upon which no decision has been given by the Referees.

——

Wotton

August 22, 1848

Dear Sir Alexander Grant

I have considered the proposal you gave me from Mr Guthrie and I must, I regret, say that I cannot accede to it. If it had been in my power I should have been most happy to have acceded to Mr Guthrie’s request by giving to him the Policies to an amount equal to his debt, but after carefully considering my position and the conditions under which I hold the policies and other property I shod not feel myself justified in dealing with any of them until the indemnity to my father is performed, as at all events so far performed that there would be an actual surplus ascertained. The previous proposal by Mr G. and, to which he refused was of a very different nature, it was that we should in the proposed new mortgages then in negotiation except from the securities and advowsons which Mr G. would accept for his son. This I at once agreed to assent to if the mortgagees would, by it there was no loss of income & they were considered a very trifling assets, however, the negotiations were broken off and the mortgagees who held them in security sold them. The proposal now is, that I should give up Policies to the full amount of the Debt, and also to devote a portion of my income to maintaining them, with the small income I am every likely to have and in the confused and complicated state of affair I should not be acting with justice to myself or to my Mother if I were (at a time when there is really no income whatever to enter into fresh engagements or give away available Property of the description alluded to since I agreed conditionally upon the assent of the mortgagees to the original proposal the affairs have become more complicated and the prospect more gloomy and with the deepest feelings of regret that any person should be a sufferer by their confidence in my Father and with every disposition to do all in my power to meet the enormous claims upon him, I must decline to extend any fresh liabilities & remain very faithfully yours

Chandos

1848/09/18

Mixbury Sept 18 1848

Sir

In acknowledging your favour of the 12th inst: it is necessary for me say that there is still a deficiency in the account it contains which for the reason I have specified in former letters I have not the means of more particulars pointing out.

You state the draft apportionment of the Warren Farm at 52. 1. 11 – which is right. But the apportionment of the whole of Paxtons holding is 94. 6. 8 whereas you have made the Marquess of Chandos’ part to

be

34

12

7

and Colonel Halls

12

5

9

the whole for the half year

46

18

4

which is less than the half of 94. 6. 0 by 5s.

The apportionment gives for the rent

in hand

———

25

11

5

 

Game keepers

———

 

9

6

 

Cottages

———

 

14

4

 

 

 

29

15

3

of which

the half is

 

14

17

7½

whereas you

make the Marquess part

 

12

7

11 ½

 

& Colonel Halls

———

2

2

6

 

 

 

14

10

5½

 

too little by 7s ½d

 

 

 

 

 

Besides which there is an error in the acreage for the year stated in yours by 1s 2½d too little on the Marquess’ part and of 1s 3½d on Coln Halls. I feel that I have no right to expect you to pay an earlier attention to this settlement than I have done. But it will be very desirable for me to receive the amount as soon as suits your convenience.

I am Sir
Your very humbl Servt

W. J. Palmer

1848/09/25

Mixbury Sept 25 1848

Sir

I have duly recd your favour inclosing a cheque from the Marquess of Chandos for 96. 12. 9. for which I will send you a receipt on the proper stamp at an early opportunity

and am
your humble servant

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thomas Beards

1848/11/04

Mr Palmer is sorry that Mr Beards should have the trouble of asking for the enclosed receipt.

Mr Palmer begs leave to observe that there is an error in the amount paid of 12s or thereabouts in his favour which may be paid if the Marquess pleases when the next half years payment becomes due.

Mixbury Nov 4 1848

1848/12/20

Mixbury 20 Decr 1848

Sir

I beg leave to inclose with this a cheque for £8 17s 1d which together with Mr Barretts receipt for income tax also inclosed will make up £9 the amount of Rent I have been called upon to pay the Marquess of Chandos at this season. I fear I may be a day or two behind but have mislaid your notice.

I am
Your humble servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thomas Beards

1849/01/26

Mixbury January 26

I have inclosed with this a receipt for your cheque for 90. 12. 9 –and am your very humble servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thos Beards

1849/07/24

Mixbury July 24 – 49

Mr Palmer requests the favour of Mr Beards to read the note inclosed with this, and if it is in his power to give Mr Palmer the information he desires on Monday next it will be unnecessary to trouble Lord Chandos on the subject; if not, he wishes it might be forwarded.

Mr Thos Beards

1849/07/30

Mixbury July 30 – 49

Sir

I have received your favour in answer to my enquiring concerning the lands described as being in hand the property of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, but now since the beginning of the year disposed of in part to Messrs Warner & Painter – & it is unnecessary to trouble you or my Lord Chandos on the subject. My demand remaining on his Graces estate will be for the holdings in hand on the farms or lots unsold – and I make it to be for the half year £2 3s 5d – which I shall be glad to receive at your convenience. I beg leave to inclose a note from Mr Warner which he put into my hands today and to request the favour of you to inform me if you please what answer I should give to him. he seems to thinks the differences being between me and you or rather his Grace but in that I apprehend he is certainly mistaken.

I am Sir
Your very humble servant

Mr Thomas Beards

1849/08/07

Sir

I hardly know either what Mr Warner means except if be that the seller should pay the rent charge up to a certain day that is before it became due to me. It is obvious I can have nothing to do with this & of course must leave Mr Warner to settle it.

The tenants from whose holdings lands have been taken and conveyed to the Rail-way Company seem desirous that I should make a demand upon the company for myself in future & for them in effect for they have paid up to this time which seems reasonable enough and if it is in your power to give me a specification of the lands in questions I will do what I can according to their wish.

Your very humble servt

W. J. Palmer

Mr Thos Beards

1849/08/18

Finmere Warren
16 August 1849

My dear Sir,

I have enquired about French being paid and find he has received 300£!! or thereabouts for work done in a most disgraceful and injurious manner, and I suppose he can have no excuse for not paying you.

I thank you for your kind attention to my enquiries about a Residence, think the one you name at Chackmore too small, if you should have one with some land I shall be much obliged by you favouring me with the offer.

I am
My dear sir
Most truly yours

WM Warner

— Beards Esq

1849/04/28

Finmere Warren

28 April 1849

Dear Sir

I thank you for your letter yesterday. The Staddles on the Estate my interest had influenced my judgement to to [sic] conclude that they went with the Estate, however, if in this I am in error I will take them at your valuation eight pounds and ten shillings, you will allow me to take the opinion of my 40s on the opinion attended £ [sic]

I am Dr Sir
Most respectfully yours

WM Warner

Thos Beard [sic] Esq

1849/08/31

Monday Morning

Revd & dear Sir

I am not at all well t’day, I should be obliged if you could call on your return & I will pay you your T. R. C. Three and six days in the last half year up to the Jan 1st you will receive of the Marquis of Chandos’ Agent.

I am
Revd [?]

Most respectfully yours

W. Warner

Revd W Palmer.

1849/08/10

Dear Sir

We are not provided with a residence, have you one to lett or sell. I think we would like near Stowe or near Buckingham, or on any respectable and healthy part, if will from 10 to 100 a of lands, the more desirable, with well and regularly paid quarterly. If you have any you think would suit us, the offer would much oblige.

Dear Sir
Most Truly Yours

WM Warner

Thos Beards Esq

[1] Palmer was born 5th February 1778. He was 67 years of age at the time of this letter.
[2] Tithe rent charge payments were based on the prevailing price of grain; the septennial price was used for commutation.
[3] Rent for Poors Plot.
[4] In 1845/09/30 I have transcribed Hillock as Hillick.
[5] Note in Duke’s hand.
[6] This was the resignation of the Marquis of Breadablane as a referee on 10 January 1849.
[7] ‘Who burgled Finmere Warren?,’ Andy Boddington, The Finmere Record 1, Finmere and Little Tingewick Historical Society, January 2000.