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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/01/03 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 1649/50 WD robbed while in his house – but stopped any losses. 'I am going to fish in the fenns for 200 acres, you had best throw an old shoe after me. It is in my Ld of Bedford's level' . Costs 5s/acre |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1650/01/12 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 1649/50 - Complete rent roll of Middl Claydon and long and detailed discussion of tenants. Advocates total enclosure because 'the fields are so little already that they will not keep without rutting half sheep enough to fold half the land that should be' V important letter on estate policy |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/03/28 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | About selling Abingdon lands. Lovelace prepared to take principal only at 16yp, or with interest at 20yp,or money with interest calculated at 4%. Marshalsea office has been abolished |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1650/06/02 |
| to: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| Notes: | * 02/12 – V Important. SRV's 'Confessional letter about life, his moral principles of estate management, his duties and obligations. Oddments about debts business – V Long – M Testard DEAD – nb Fen money to be put in SRB or NH Name |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1650/06/09 |
| to: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| Notes: | 09/19 -wants WR to bring over accounts to france in autumn. Has decided not to come home but to go to Italy, but 'not for his pleasures' since his wife's death. Asks WR to give 40s to poor. |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/06/20 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * In response to 'confession' letter of 2/12/6 in which SRV asks WD to tell him of his faults. ' you have been ever (even by most of those who thought they knew you best) thought to take pett upon very small occasions agst man, and then very hardly reconcilable'. Urges him to make his peace with Ned F[ust] E Isham and HV. |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/07/04 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | *says very severe act planned against persons beyond sea 'tending to sequestration. This deserves your consideration before you remove further'. HV in town tells WD that some Claydon tenants 'do not pay the tithes well, particularly Old Miller' |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/07/11 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | *WD out of pocket on SRV's account and has received nothing from WR. Finds it a great riddle that an estate of £2000 pa with £350 outgoings for family plus taxes of 10% seems to leave little or nothing for SRV and other purposes. |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1650/07/17 |
| to: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| Notes: | *says only £440 due to SRV. Craves he should not have to go to Dieppe to see SRV. Says his wife is afraid to do anything while he was away last time and has been ever since , and hearing the news of a new journey fell very ill. |
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| Sent by: | wr Roades, William |
| on: | 1650/07/20 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * repeating that WR trying to get £440 rent arrears from tenants. SRV has asked for £600 by August, and WR says he will do what he can an even use his own credit to raise it . WR has 8 children |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/07/24 |
| to: | wr Roades, William |
| Notes: | * WD needs cash from SRV. £90 for 'small things', £150 laid out for funeral, plus fens investment will be lost if unpaid. On MVs funeral, rumour has it that many intend to be present but wr to ensure it is as private as may be. MV to be buried immediately on arrival at Claydon and 'not to have any stranger' |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/08/08 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Fens. TV in prison “ a prison is fittest for him”. 'I conceive your debt is between £4 and £5000' and given he is 'indarkness as to your estate' doesn't know how to advise. E Isham now very friendly. |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/08/22 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Funeral. WD will help advise SRV about settling his estate, but he has no rental and needs one from WR if his advice can be any use. ' I am confident few mens land yields 3% and taxes grow every day higher and higher' |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1650/09/01 |
| to: | jd Denton, John [of Lincolns Inn] |
| Notes: | * 01/11 since WR won't come to France, requests JD to take over estate management and to send accounts/rent roll to him. Knows JD doesn't want the work because very busy, but asks out of friendship. |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/10/11 |
| to: | wr Roades, William |
| Notes: | * Criticising estate rental sent by WR to him, noting omissions of woods, and not providing valuations of estates for lives or years, widows' estates, or on improvement potential. |
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| Sent by: | wd Denton, Dr William d.1691 |
| on: | 1650/12/05 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Has paid £6-05-00 for fens. 'It is ready money makes the man, and I believe it would pay cost to take it up at the highest rate, so prevalent a thing is ready money to make easy compositions'. |
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