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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1655/08/27 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Beginning bean harvest this week. Various tenants moving house at the enclosure. Brickmaker has gone away for harvest. Brick clamp 'proves for the most part well'. Using Sir R Temple's teams to carry stone. |
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| on: | 1655/08/30 |
| to: | T Cordell Cordell, Thomas |
| Notes: | Asking for book on architecture by man called Muet [Piere Le Muet - probably Maniere de bien batir (1623, republished 1647)] |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1655/09/06 |
| to: | wr Roades, William |
| Notes: | * Various matters of enclosure, harvest, sawyers. WR to get 8 carpenters to put up post and rails dividing srv's and parson's land. |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1655/09/13 |
| to: | Westerholt Westerholt, Mrs |
| Notes: | * SRV is fed up with WR's inefficiency, orders his housekeeper, Mrs Westerholt, to organise the estate work herself - specifically making effective fence between his land and parson's. |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1655/09/13 |
| to: | J Avis Aris, John |
| Notes: | * talks of wr as 'broken reed' who cannot be relied upon. 'by this I see how slowly directions are observed when I am absent.' |
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| Sent by: | J Aris Aris, John |
| on: | 1655/09/15 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * complains out of pocket because has bought sheep and wood on credit but his quarteridge has not been paid. Ralph Roades' hogs have eaten his crops. |
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| Sent by: | Mr Kersey Kersey, John |
| on: | 1655/00/00? |
| to: | [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable] |
| Notes: | * Answer. Thinks that if Stafford's son designed for merchant or other trade place, best to 'place him at Board', but 'if his designe is only to learne some thing in the mathematiques, I shall doe him what service I am able..' |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1655/10/08 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * much rain at Claydon. Will Guttridge's house 'as wet inside as out'. Wr says if srv not coming to Claydon soon he should give order for Guttridge to move to Scott's house. |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1655/10/15 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * finished mowing aftermath hay - but will never be persuaded to do it so late again. Problems with a money return at Leighton [Buzzard] |
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| Sent by: | W Barker Barker, William |
| on: | 1655/11/27 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * from Hitchin. Recommends Jo: Hart who 'will make bric at price Goodman Hall used to. Will come in March , wants all material ready. Will bring men. Nb 3 Jan 55/6 says he cannot come |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1655/12/10 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Looking for school for Jack Verney – Winchester possible. Much on Edmund denton's finances with £17,000 debts. Will hav to make sales of land including his wife's. |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1656/01/07 |
| to: | wr Roades, William |
| Notes: | * 1655/6 srv pleading with WR to try and get a settlement for £20 in suit with Thomas Denton (srv's uncle) being sued by Middle Claydon 'town' in a bastardy case – Trying to avoid court. Srv on his travels - either at Elmes' house at \greens Norton, or with Ishams at Lamport, or Sir Edward griffins' house at Dingly 1 mile from Harborough. |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1656/01/15 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 1655/6 Has Orphaned grandson in Adstock he wants to take over wants SRV to take out letters of aministration for him. His (dead) daughter had jointure of £20 pa which is now the grandchild's |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1656/02/15 |
| to: | ev Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * 1655/6 warns ev not to try to bring any guns with him when he returns, as they will be taken away. Talks of marriage possibilities when ev returns. Makes much of ev's need to dress smartly. 'women are oftner taken with the outsides of men, then anything else. |
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| Sent by: | [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable] |
| on: | 1656/00/00 |
| to: | [Uncertain/Unknown/Not Applicable] |
| Notes: | * Decimation tax. Various petitions, particulars of Middle Claydon estate. Certificate from Haberdasher's Hall showing srv's discharge from sequestration. Will Barker's estimate for building wall. Draft petition to council (?in London) about Major-General's demands in Bucks. Various other petitions. List of those sumoned to appear at Aylesbury 6 March 1655/6 |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1656/04/29 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * discussing the wealth of potential farmers for Crowmarsh big farm. One has £80 pa freehold and £2000 in stock, another £30 pa freehold. |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1656/05/18 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Quarrels between townspeople at Claydon and parson about cost of road repairs. About selling SRV's Horses because lame and blind |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1656/00/00? |
| to: | V Gawdy Gaudy, Vere, Lady |
| Notes: | *gives VG a list of the leasing clauses in 21 yr or 2-3life leases. For short leases 'I pick out such as are most needful and omit the rest.' Protector has decided to refer back his Decimation business to the local Major General and committee in Buckinghamshire for decision. |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1656/06/05 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Intending to plough wood walk before midsummer. At present both ox teams carrying 'spars'. Buckingham men carrying 'mould' into garden. 3 kilns of bricks burnt. 'Mr Challenor who builds the scool house at Steepl Claydon desires to buy some time of you. . . ' |
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| on: | 1656/06/03 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 3 letters of same date on detailed estate matters at Claydon. Road repair problems. Large scale fencing from enclosure. Settement case. |
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| Sent by: | William Gutteridge Gutteridge, William |
| on: | 1656/06/18 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Middle Claydon man petitioning to be allowed to sell beer. Thankful for work srv provides, but still not enough income - suggests he will be put in prison and parish will need to support wife and family. |
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| Sent by: | jv Verney, John, [2nd Bart., 1st Viscount Fermanagh d.1717] |
| on: | 1656/06/18 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Asking his father to allow him to live with Mr Kersie 'maby 3 months or half a year for to learn to cast an account & assoone as I should know all things perfectly I would goes and bind myself an apprintice into some very good traydesman & I doe know Lords sones wch must be apprintices & their elder brother is worth 5 thousand pounds a yeare, as fo example my Lord Cosselton' |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1656/06/20 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Wasing and Crowmarsh tenants have both had houses burnt down. Requesting timber to rebuild . New malthouse at Crowmarsh destroyed. Total of 27 bays. |
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| on: | 1656/07/19 |
| to: | wr Roades, William |
| Notes: | * results of srv's researches in Birch settlement case at Claydon. Father in London, son in Middle Claydon claiming subsistence. Father says son born in Gloucester - Blockley near Bourton. |
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|
| 14–568 |
|
| 14–569 |
|
| 14–570 |
|
| 14–571 |
|
| 14–572 |
|
| 14–573 |
|
| 14–574 |
|
| 14–575 |
|
| 14–576 |
|
| 14–577 |
|
| 14–578 |
|
| 14–579 |
|
| 14–580 |
|
| 14–581 |
|
| 14–582 |
|
| 14–583 |
|
| 14–584 |
|
| 14–585 |
|
| 14–586 |
|
| 14–587 |
|
| 14–588 |
|
| 14–589 |
|
| 14–590 |
|