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| Sent by: | H King King, Harry |
| on: | 1664/11/14 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * H King's father unable to hold warren any longer. More than half undone by it already, wants rent reduction. SRV annotates that he takes this as advance notice to quit. |
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| Sent by: | HH Holmes, Hugh |
| on: | 1664/12/29 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| 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 |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/01/19 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * many landowners complaining of tenants leaving. Hears we won't buy fish of the Dutch at Lent, so perhaps people will eat meat and raise calf and lamb princes |
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| Sent by: | HH Holmes, Hugh |
| on: | 1665/02/23 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| 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. |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| on: | 1665/01/23 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * About the high rents, which means tenants can't pay, haven't money to buy stock, and buy on credit (sur paroles), so would be better to lower rents, especially during this Dutch war. [in French] |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/05/18 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * No coal in London. Sir Thomas Viner dead ' at least ten days' Going to Alderman Backwell. 'Tis an ill time to put out money. For the fear of the plague makes many willing to take their estates out of the Goldsmith's hands and the King's greate want of money makes many very unwilling to lend any money to those that advance greate summs for him.' |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| on: | 1665/05/04 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * On terms he will accept for putting his money with Backwell. Doesn't want it known it was previously with Viner. Won't take less than 5% interest with payment on demand. 11May SRV response saying Backwell won't give him the terms he wants. |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| on: | 1665/05/08 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Agrees to place money with Backwell if SRV concurs. Backwell currently at Creslow (Bucks) 11 May srv response saying Backwell won't give him the terms he wants |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| on: | 1665/04/24 |
| to: | Alexander D Denton, Alexander |
| Notes: | * has agreed with his father that he will pay him £1000 for M Claydon land, which if EV dies without issue will revert to srv, otherwise to ev and his heirs, with srv retaining right to charge £500 on it if necessary. Otherwise to EV and his heirs, first male, then general. Rest of his money to go to Alderman Backwell, though he may soon buy East claydon land. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/03/27 |
| to: | Mr Lewis Mr Lewis |
| Notes: | All about finance (1) Payment of £200 to Townsend of Oxford; (2) Payment out of Denton trust of £1100 and 7 years' interest to EI |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| on: | 1665/04/17 |
| to: | J Fust Fust, John |
| Notes: | * Fust wants loan, but EV has none because he has just bought ?land for £1100 and is 'upon other purchases' 'so that I shall need all the money I can wrap and wring' |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/06/28 |
| to: | J Bridgman Bridgman, Sir John |
| Notes: | * Grass very short, so timing of haymaking unclear. Meadows are stiff clay and rock hard. Thinks Bridgeman's waterman couldn't do much |
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| Sent by: | SRB Burgoyne, Sir Roger |
| on: | 1665/06/26 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Suggests srv shouldn’t keep so much with Goldsmiths because of plague. He himself could do with £200 cash 'being at present put to some straits' |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/06/08 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * Viner, Backwell and Minell will all give EV sufficient security for £1000 investment. Money at E Claydon, will have to be sent up to London in boxes - too much for a Return. V good detail on how money kept in bags, sealed etc. On sale of Runts wood, SRV makes clear he will never allow EV to sell any part of M Claydon during SRV's lifetime |
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| Sent by: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| on: | 1665/08/27 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * At East Claydon his tenant Edward Cox and his children all dead of plague. Wife has it but will probably recover. John Hicks senior has takenthe Bell inn at Winslow and his son John, and another son will go to live their with their mother to manage it. John Hicks sen will stay here with his youngest son and daughter to look after his village business. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/09/25 |
| to: | HV Verney, Henry [d.1671] |
| Notes: | * SRV stayed in MC 2 weeks longer than intended 'to order matters as well as I could for the security of my family and tenants.. Plague was there. Panic when Jack Lea arrived (?from London) HH forced to fetch srv from Oxfordshire, journeying to srb (?Wroxall) and bring him back. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/10/31 |
| to: | Sir R Maleverer Mauleverer, Sir Richard |
| Notes: | * Livestock markets at standstill while bill against bringing in foreign cattle in play - now expected not to pass. Cows selling for 10s - 15s a piece - 20 or 25% of normal price. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/11/24 |
| to: | Mr Harborne Harborne, Thomas |
| Notes: | * About tithe. At Middle Claydon srv takes all tithes of EB rector at rate of 18d in £ where tithes due in kind, so fall and rise with rent. Elles of Aylesbury, tenant refusing to pay tithe. Harborne to take legal action, but 'I think it must bee in Mr Butterfield's name' |
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| Sent by: | J Cary Cary, John |
| on: | 1665/12/15 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | J Cary's son has Lord Rochester's patronage for Stow vicarage; wants SRV's approval. NB Son still very young |
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| Sent by: | J Cary Cary, John |
| on: | 1665/12/28 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Lists of loans in srv's name or on your procurement and acquittance taken' : Money for Dorothy Leeke, Mr Butterfield, Lady Gaudy. Debts are a) Sir Harry Lee's trustees b) Lady Rochester c) Sir Francis Henry Lee |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1665/03/27 |
| to: | Mr Lewis Mr Lewis |
| Notes: | * Mr Lewis is one of Sir Thomas Viner's associates at Lombard st bank. Request for money to be paid to Margaret Elmes |
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| Sent by: | Mr John Kilbie Kilby, J |
| from: | Aylesbury |
| on: | 1666/02/01 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * From Aylesbury. He will pay £200 to srv on E Backwell's order. Asks srv to say when he will call for it. 'I begg that you will not send of a Saterday but any other as you plese'. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1666/03/05 |
| to: | M Elmes Elmes, Margaret [Verney] d. January 1670 |
| Notes: | * M Elmes as stayed 3 months with Sir Thomas Cave and his wife at Stamford, but Lady Cave has died very suddenly: SRV's reaction: ' Truly I cannot advise you to stay much longer where you are for some reasons not fit to be expressed in a letter; your condition is not like that of most Woemen, espetially now his Good Lady is dead' |
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|
| 20–567 |
|
| 20–568 |
|
| 20–569 |
|
| 20–570 |
|
| 20–571 |
|
| 20–572 |
|
| 20–573 |
|
| 20–574 |
|