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| Sent by: | eb Butterfield, Rev. Edward |
| on: | 1663/02/02 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 1662/3 new tenant Latham at Middle Claydon has sold all his land and reversions of land , but still owes £30, and he has no stock. Recommends srv gives him notice. |
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| Sent by: | HH Holmes, Hugh |
| on: | 1663/02/16 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| 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. |
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| Sent by: | EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward |
| on: | 1663/02/23 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 1662/3 on the match between Butcher and his Mrs 'who owne another now in publique. Much pressure to stop it. 'Y poore wench is afrayd if she put him off she shall never have another.' |
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| Sent by: | HH Holmes, Hugh |
| on: | 1663/03/02 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | *1662/3 SRV buying in Fish for Lent. Lists 10 cart horses. Has conferred with tenants about using coal ashes as a fertiliser. |
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| Sent by: | HH Holmes, Hugh |
| on: | 1663/03/04 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| 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. |
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| Sent by: | Edward Ord Ord, Edward |
| on: | 1663/03/09 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 1662/3 recommendation of Dickson by a neighbour written from the George in Tetsworth (Oxon) say he is knowing in buying and selling cattle. |
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| Sent by: | H King King, Harry |
| on: | 1663/03/09 |
| to: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 1662/3 Henry King's report on Dickson saying he currently rents £120 to £140 land and that they have closed deal with him. Reports that Edward Ord is a gentleman 'wich doth belonge to my Lord of Linsie |
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| Sent by: | srv Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1663/03/23 |
| to: | ev Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | *1662/3 Says (East Claydon) inhabitants want Manor Court immediately to stint the commons before men buy their stock to stock them, else the freeholder ' will eate up your tenants'. Thinks best if court held in EV's absence. Old orders become void at Lady Day. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1663/04/06 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * On Scarlet's default. Appears he holds land in East Claydon as well. His 'mayd' had died in mysterious circumstances. Comments that few tenants pay rent 'at ye day' and some Abell tenants owe a year's back rent. His view is that Scarlet is 'honest but poor' and innocent of maid's death. Srv has 17 horses at grass and 8 more at house. |
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| Sent by: | EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward |
| on: | 1663/05/11 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * Of Sir William Smyth: very prosperous and ambitious, and will do whatever he can to get hold of title to Steeple Claydon. On Stephen Chalk (E Claydon bailiff) will with bequests of £270 but assets of only £189-5-4 |
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| Sent by: | HH Holmes, Hugh |
| on: | 1663/06/25 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| 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. |
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| Sent by: | HH Holmes, Hugh |
| on: | 1663/07/06 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * 'The chamber where Queen Elizabeth's arms are over the chimney.' Stream overflowing and flooding meadows. Will need money spent to prevent it. |
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| Sent by: | EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward |
| on: | 1663/12/07? |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * Agnes King about to marry and wants to let out her copyholding for a lease for years conditional on her life. EB thinks prospective tenant acceptable. |
| Queries: | 1663/12/09 (Rx) |
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| Sent by: | John Dormer Dormer, John |
| on: | 1663/12/14 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | *About William Rose's servant - bastardy case. Claims child is John Lea's. Examined before Piggott and Dormer. Midwife used to press girl as to whether this was truth. |
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| Sent by: | EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward |
| on: | 1663/12/14 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * On bastardy case - EB and Rose trying to prevent her being a charge on the parish. Of John Lea whom she claims is father 'I feare he is not innocent though perhaps not, ye true father. A very obscene strumpet she is of whom I doubt not but you have heard inough.' Duel between HV's servant and srv's gardiner. Pair pulled apart by Holmes. Two strangers appeared on East Claydon common and claiming the king had granted it to them. |
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| Sent by: | EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward |
| on: | 1663/12/24 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * On Rose's servant 'we are agree to have her conveighed privately away and if the child live we to pay one halfe of ye charge for its maintenance and ye wench and her father the other . Could mean many court proceedings and much cost. |
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| Sent by: | Feild Field, [blank] |
| on: | 1663/12/28 |
| to: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| Notes: | * about Mr Scarlet teaching teaching Blanns [new servant] to write, best because 'he will be allwayes at home only Tuesday and then he will leave coppeys for him and his mother will keep him at it. ' Scarlet will charge a groat (4d) a week for this. |
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| Sent by: | EB Butterfield, Rev. Edward |
| on: | 1663/06/01 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * His review of Stephen Chalk's accounts for Abell estates, finds rents in East Claydon very similar to srv's but that grazing land in Hertfordshire produces more than in Bucks. |
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| Sent by: | SRV Verney, Sir Ralph [d.1696] |
| on: | 1663/03/30 |
| to: | EV Verney, Edmund [d.1688] |
| Notes: | * SRV will supervise manor court at East Claydon as usual court keepe, Mr Holloway, cant come as he is doing equivalent for duke of Buckingham at Whaddon. SRV surprised some court rolls are paper '"tis strange they were not in parchment for they are records". Hard winter, he sees rents falling at LD |
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