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Holmes, Hugh

Claydon bailiff/steward 1659-63. He provides Sir Ralph Verney with advice on the farming side of estate management up to 1675

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15-613
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
on 1658/04/00
Notes: NB first mention in correspondence. Holmes is William Roades' replacement as estate steward/bailiff
16-242
Sent by H H Holmes, Hugh
on 1658/12/27
16-254
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/01/03
Notes: 1658/9
16-260
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/01/10
Notes: 1658/9
16-265
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/01/17
Notes: 1658/9 About team doing 10 days ploughing
Queries: PAGE 107
16-279
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/01/24
Notes: * 1658/9 Bean crop sold for seed. Price. 2 teams ploughing oat close
16-294
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/01/31
Notes: 1658/9
16-365
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/04/23
16-373
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/04/30
Notes: *lots of stones carried to Middle Claydon. Balmore Close offered to tenant at 18s per acre
16-379
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/05/07
Notes: * Has bought 50 more sheep this week.
Queries: Page 110
16-385
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/05/14
Notes: 40s an acre asked for a meadow. Wheat close full of grass.
16-393
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/05/21
Notes: * Would buy more sheep if he had spare money
16-413
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/06/04
Notes: * reporting on a tenant's farming practices in Middle Clayon
16-415
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/06/11
Queries: PAGE 111
16-419
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/06/14
16-422
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/06/18
Notes: * 'Here is too much need of my master's company for many men would be taking ground of him if he was at home'
16-546
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/11/19
16-550
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/11/26
Notes: Quanton man offering 16s an acre for Bean Hill and Ashmore
16-561
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1659/12/03
17-212
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/04/28
Notes: Ashmore , beanhill and Dean Meadow (fields at Claydon) are not racked (set at below full economic rent)
Queries: PAGE 119
17-213
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/04/30
Notes: Land selling at BC. Mrs Westerholt wants 2 kinds of suit
17-216
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/05/05
Notes: * about renting land
17-220
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/05/09
17-224
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/05/14
Notes: * About various things including Mr Scarlet's house finished but for Putting in Glass. Terms of Harding's lease if he takes Roomer Poole, including carrying in Potash after Michaelmas
17-227
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/05/21
Notes: * Says meadows growing V poorly
17-229
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/05/25
Notes: * a horse team and an ox team at Claydon
17-231
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/05/28
Notes: * no money coming in (from rents?) and doesn't know how to pay 'workmen, besides coale, cartes and wood cartes that must be hired.' 4 dairy cows.
17-235
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/06/04
Notes: HH has pulled down Butcher's chimney and removed floorboards
17-239
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/06/11
17-351
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/11/26
Notes: SRV sending SRB some deer
17-370
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/12/17
17-385
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/12/24
Notes: 25 sheep fit for slaughter or sale
17-394
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1660/12/31
18-030
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1661/11/14
Notes: About collecting Stafford's cash @ Leighton
18-037
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1661/11/18
18-040
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1661/11/21
18-043
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1661/11/25
18-113
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/02/13
Notes: 1661/2 One Downer of Have wants a leave
18-117
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/02/19
Notes: 1661/2 “violent wind” Damage to out buildings.
18-123
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/02/24
Notes: *1661/2 Estate matters, sheep and calves. About trying a plough that throws the earth both ways, finds ground too heavy for it. Tenant housing repairs.
18-178
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/04/14
Notes: * much rent at Claydon yet unpaid. Sir William Smyth compounding with his creditors. HH asks SRV to help him with this.
18-179
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/04/17
Notes: * leasing negotiations
18-189
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/04/21
Notes: * “Grass grows apace” HH running home farm
18-202
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/04/27
Notes: Can't find money to discharge notes sent by SRV
18-205
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/04/28
18-218
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/03
Notes: * Possible buyer for Fifield and Crowmarsh. 'It is no pleasure to me to displease you but a terror and you are a good master. I wish I could be a good servant'
18-220
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/04
Notes: Off to Crowmarsh and Wasing
18-227
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/08
Notes: HH has passed £80 to H King to buy stock at Banbury fair
18-223
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/11
Notes: * “The caterpillars began to make ill work of the hedges” Upper sidwell let for £13. Thomas Grime taking potash to sell in London. Possible he could bring coal as back-carriage
18-236
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/12
Notes: Rose and Scarlet have big rent arrears
18-241
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/18
Notes: List of work done
18-244
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/19
Notes: * More ground to be mowed than normal, he must 'engage more mowers'
18-245
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/26
Notes: H king wants £20 to buy oxen at Buckingham
18-257
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/05/26
Notes: * John Hicks and Thomas Grime preferred to fetch srv's coal as they are behind with rent. Srv has ordered HH to allow his horse to only cover approved mares. Unlet fields still understocked - need more purchases
18-270
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/06/02
Notes: *Oats more expensive at Towcester. Wagon wheels broke “because the streeking going through the town”
18-287
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/06/15
Notes: Grass dying away
18-304
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1662/06/29
Notes: * High grain prices 'It is a sad time for poor people' wheat 10s 6d bushell, barley 6s/b 'like to be dearer rather than cheaper' 'Labouring men mowers may have 16d a day or 18d that makes them thinke much to work for 10d a day.' SRV's wokers are going off to get higher wages mowing. 62 loads of hay got in in 5 days with 2 teams working ( 3 on one day)
Queries: PAGE 138
18-494
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/01/11
Notes: 1662/3 Additons for Lady Burgoyne's jointure
18-496
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/01/12
Notes: 1662/3
18-499
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/01/15
Notes: 1662/3
18-500
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/01/19
Notes: * About setting up a barn in East Claydon. Cost £10
18-514
Sent by hh Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/02/02
Notes: 1662/3
18-519
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/02/09
Notes: 1662/3
18-533
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/02/16
Notes: *1662/3 Pulling down house to stop newly weds living in it – Butcher and Mrs Newman. Very few ashes in the 'ash house' which he will 'fetch away' if the frost holds.
18-541
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/02/23
Notes: 1662/3 Says he'll stop Butcher getting a house to live in.
18-551
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/03/02
Notes: *1662/3 SRV buying in Fish for Lent. Lists 10 cart horses. Has conferred with tenants about using coal ashes as a fertiliser.
18-553
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/03/04
Notes: * 1662/3 new tenant Latham recommends another possible tenant, Dickson, from 'near Whifeild'. Mr King to be sent to speak to a local landowner's bailiff near there, but first reports of Dickson are not good.
18-565
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/03/10
Notes: 1662/3 Gardener Mudd has left
19-084
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/06/22
Notes: Mead was flooded. Grass very thin and wet.
19-090
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/06/25
Notes: * Butcher has married secretly & is sleeping in Symond's barn 'where he works'. Still hope srv will give him a house. Quarter Sessions on 2 July. He will speak to Sir Richard Piggott to stop him giving Butcher and order for a house. Field's misbehaviour - out with villagers brewing beer and getting beaten up.
19-091
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/06/25
Notes: more on Butcher
19-098
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/06/29
19-104
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/07/06
Notes: * 'The chamber where Queen Elizabeth's arms are over the chimney.' Stream overflowing and flooding meadows. Will need money spent to prevent it.
19-106
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/07/13
Notes: "two floods ... Such that hath not been this many years." Great Riffam and Little Lathnell under water.
19-199
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1663/11/30
Notes: "Thom Betts 5 days a hedging at the hop yard"
19-282
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1664/01/04
19-252
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1664/03/04
Notes: * about repaying a £200 loan
20-023
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1664/12/12
Notes: Dixon has 60 sheep in one field
20-027
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1664/12/12
20-041
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1664/12/19
Notes: * estate matters
20-047
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1664/12/22
20-057
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1664/12/29
Notes: * Dickson has 200 welch sheep in field, certainly he had not money to pay for them. He hath tooke them upon credit I believe' 'theyr too many for his ground' so he will have to sell some
20-150
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/01/30
20-141
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/02/06
20-130
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/02/13
20-111
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/02/20
20-106
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/02/23
Notes: * SRV wants to dig potashes deep into the clay with mould for better results. HH has asked around, and no one else ever heard of it , so he would rather leave it.
20-101
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/02/27
20-189
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/05/07
20-191
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/05/08
20-199
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1665/05/11
21-505
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1667/05/27
21-514
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1667/06/03
21-522
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1667/06/06
22-144
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/01/13
22-189
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/02/28
Notes: Grass growing fast already!
22-203
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/03/06
22-260
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/05/04
22-269
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/05/11
Notes: Getting coal @ 17s. a chaldron from St Neots.
22-275
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/05/13
22-297
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/06/01
Notes: Floods at Claydon. Wasing tenants not paying.
22-467
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1668/11/16
22-536
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/01/11
22-547
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/01/18
22-568
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/02/01
23-024
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/03/13
23-112
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/05/23
23-116
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/05/24
23-122
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/05/30
Notes: Burning the bricks with faggots??
23-522
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/05/05
23-531
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/05/15
Queries: 15/25
23-540
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/05/22
23-555
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/05/31
23-573
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/06/08
Notes: Buying Headington stone for SRV.
23-582
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/06/12
23-591
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/06/19
24-014
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1670/07/15
Notes: Expenses fetching stone from Eydon.
24-156
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1671/01/02
24-180
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1671/01/23
24-204
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1671/02/13
24-318
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1671/05/31
Notes: Horse plague general in Buckinghamshire - cough, running nose, loss of appetite.
24-323
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1671/06/04
Notes: Horse has found horse plague rife where he has been in county.
24-378
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1671/07/17
24-549
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/01/08
24-563
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/01/15
Notes: (Is Stopp giving up Newman - list of beasts)
24-573
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/01/22
24-582
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/01/29
24-584
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/02/04
24-590
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/02/05
25-034
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/02/12
25-019
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/02/19
25-009
Sent by HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1672/02/25
25-453
Sent by Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1672/12/30
on 1672/01/01
Notes: estate matters (about the hay from Robt Parrat)
Queries: query date received - should be Jan 1673?
25-469
Sent by Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/01/06
on 1673/01/08
Notes: estate matters (about the hay from Robt Parrat)
25-477
Sent by Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/01/13
on 1673/01/15
Notes: estate matters (Holmes' letter about the hay Robt Parrat wants to exchange)
25-503
Sent by Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/01/27
on 1673/01/29
Notes: estate matters (about they hay bought at Steeple Claydon); Mr Parrott
25-523
Sent by Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/02/03
on 1673/02/05
Notes: estate matters (about the hay; Mr Parrat; Leicestershire?; Goodman; 'Old Gamble')
25-536
Sent by Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/02/10
on 1673/02/12
Notes: estate matters (about hay; Robert Parrat)
25-551
Sent by Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/02/17
on 1673/02/19
Notes: had 4 loads of hay from Mr Parrat
26-084
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/06/25
received at Chancery Lane, London
on 1673/07/02
Notes: estate matters (coals and wood, wine, Mr Ffall, Burlingham? Fair)
26-085
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/06/30
on 1673/07/02
Notes: estate matters (Mr ffall, wine, Mr Comson?, Lady Hobart)
26-276
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
on 1673/10/31?
on 1673/11/03
Notes: bill - includes 'for a leg of mutton' [this crossed out]
27-041
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/12/01
on 1673/12/03
Notes: estate matters
Queries: hard to read
27-037
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/12/04
on 1673/12/06
Notes: estate matters (Coleman)
Queries: hard to read
27-020
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/12/08
on 1673/12/10
Notes: estate matters
Queries: hard to read
27-021
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/12/08
on 1673/12/10
Notes: estate matters (Mr Ffall)
27-008
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/12/15
on 1673/12/17
Notes: estate matters?
Queries: hard to read
27-073
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1673/12/22
on 1673/12/24
Notes: estate matters
Queries: hard to read
27-108
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1674/01/04
on 1674/01/07
Notes: money matters; estate matters; Mr Ffall
Queries: hard to read
27-126
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1674/01/12
on 1674/01/14
Notes: estate matters (Mr Stafford, Mr Butterfield,, heavy rains)
Queries: hard to read
27-141
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1674/01/19
on 1674/01/21
Notes: estate matters (great snow Saturday last, then a flood)
Queries: hard to read
27-146
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1674/01/21
on 1674/01/22
Notes: estate matters (about the gelding)
Queries: hard to read
27-168
Sent by Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
from Claydon
on 1674/01/29
on 1674/01/31
Notes: estate matters (Mr Wowdoy/Cowdoy?, Lauston? Fair,, Mr Beeney bought a nag, price of milk, Mr Stafford, Collyer, Claydon)
Queries: hard to read

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Showing 12 letters out of 12.

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17-136
Sent by Robert Johnson Johnson, Mr Robert
on 1659/03/26
To HH Holmes, Hugh
18-238
Sent by Will Pursell Pursell, Will
on 1662/05/15
To HH Holmes, Hugh
19-490
on 1664/00/00
To HH Holmes, Hugh
Notes: * LETTER BOOK: abstracts of letters 5 May - 14 July 1664 + June 1663.: Threats of distraint, enquiries about state of new enclosure, query how much flax bought for poor to spin, order to pay housekeeper Bulkeley her £8: Butcher case at QS, list of gentry to be persuaded. About laying potash on ground, will also try sea coales ash.
19-535
Sent by George Longe Longe, Captain George
on 1664/08/08
To HH Holmes, Hugh
23-113
Sent by J Atkins Atkins, J
on 1669/05/00
To HH Holmes, Hugh
on 1669/05/25
Notes: About stones.
25-461
from London
on 1672/01/02
To Holmes Holmes, Hugh
Notes: estate matters (about the hay from Robt Parrat)
Queries: note on film now says 1673
25-450
from London
on 1672/12/26
To Holmes Holmes, Hugh
Notes: estate matters (6 loads hay at Knowle Hill; Parrat has a 'cock of hay' near Hogshaw House, wishes to exchange it with his)
Queries: prob copy of letter
25-472
from London
on 1673/01/09
To Holmes Holmes, Hugh
Notes: estate matters (about the hay from Robt Parrat)
25-497
from London
on 1673/01/23
To Holmes Holmes, Hugh
Notes: estate matters (his letter to Homes about hay at Hogshaw)
25-514
from London
on 1673/01/30
To Holmes Holmes, Hugh
Notes: about the hay at Steeple Claydon; Robt Parrat; Thos Harding; Hogshaw; Mr Toby Churchill
25-583
Sent by Ro Baxber Baxter, Robert
from Kingsmith?
on 1673/03/09
To Mr Hombs? Holmes, Hugh
Notes: chat; Dr Townsend; illness of Sir Ralph's man
26-301
from London
on 1673/11/17
To Hugh Holmes Holmes, Hugh
received at Middle Claydon
Notes: estate matters ( Richard Storr?, Mr Flock says RS is one whole year's rent in arrears)
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