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Document number: 1390
Date: 04 Mar 1826
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY William Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

DrCr
Paid J. Darley <1> for
Auction Expences
14 · 9 · 6Received for
Cloves Wood
510 · –
Do for valuing
Lands & Cottages
13 · 7 · 0Timber – 266 · 18 · 7
Do for Timber –7 · 0 · 6*Blackmore Coppice – 354 · –
Remitted Hammerslys <2> 122 · 3 · 6Common Land – 94 · –
Do – Do140 · 18 · 0Cottages C. Beaven – 57 · –
Do – Do 1075 · 1 · 5Do – J. Awdry <3> 36 · –
Commissn on the
last remittance –
2 · 13 · 6Do – A. Pettifer – 30 · –
£1375 · 13 · 5Interest – 20 · 14 · 4
1368 · 12 · 11
*over Paid – 7 · 0 · 6
£1375 · 13 · 5

Chippenham <4>

4th March 1826

Dear Sir/

Having now recd the whole of the Purchase Money for the late Sales I send you the particulars, as above, by which you will see that I have over paid £7 · 0 · 6 – the exact amount of Mr Darley’s Bill for valuing the Timber, which I quite forgot when I ordered the Remittance to Hammersly’s yesterday – I can charge it in the annual Rent Account, when that is made out –

Upon reading your last Letter after I had written to you on the 2 nd Inst <5> I observed that I had misunderstood your directions respecting the Remittance of Beaven’s purchase money & therefore paid the Commission for its immediate payment to Hammerslys –

Mr Beaven complained bitterly of paying so much Interest, as he said his Money had been waiting ever since the Purchase was made & that a part of the delay was owing to necessary Documents wanting to complete the Title – but I told him that I had no power to make an abatement on that Account, as the Conditions specified “from what ever Cause delay may arise” –

Upon delivering the Deeds to Mr <Tilby?>, he said that the Counterpart of the Lease of the Cottages at Queenfield was stipulated to be delivered to Mr Beaven, as I knew that this Document must be in the Tower of the Abbey & it could not be obtained till your return from the Continent – I signed a Memorandum to that effect, in order to prevent any further delay in paying the money –

I am Dear Sir
Yr obliged & obedt Sert

W. H. Awdry

P. S–
I have had an application from Mr Sheppard who rents Reybridge Cottage, to paper his Dining Room – this I have declined doing unless I have your express directions, as it does not come under the ordinary List of Landlords Repairs – nevertheless I recommend its being done, as he is a good Tenant & it is a difficult place to let well – The Expence would be under Four Pounds I imagine –
March 7th – I delayed sending this Letter in hopes of hearing from you first – & am very glad to find by your Letter just recd that I have done right about the Remittance, wch was made to Hammersly’s last Week, as you will perceive –

W. H. F. Talbot Esq
*Worthing
Sussex
*If not there,
to 31 Sackville St
Piccadilly
London


Notes:

1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

2. See Doc. No: 01388.

3. John Darley, architect & surveyor, Chippenham.

4. Hammersley & Company, bankers, London.

5. John Awdry (1766–1844), solicitor, Reybridge.

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