Chippenham ^<1>
17^th May 1830

Dear Sir /

I am desired by M^r Michell to inform you, that he has settled the Conveyance of M^r Montagu’s Field to you & will instruct his Town Agents (Messrs [Hillier?] & Lewis of Raymond Buildings Grays Inn) to wait on you for the Purchase Money – viz £588 ·· 2 ·· 0 They will produce M^r Michell’s ^<2> Letter to them, for your satisfaction as to Identity – The Ground has been measured by M^r Phelps ^<3> & it differed only one Perch from the Account delivered –

I remitted Mess^rs Hammersly’s ^<4> about a fortnight ago –

£274 · 12 · 6

&300 · –

I hope I shall soon get more paid in – but as yet I have rec^d nothing from Hayward ^<5> & Crocker of Nash Hill ^<6> for the present half year. –

I expect to be in Town the whole of Monday & part of Tuesday next – in case you or Captⁿ Fielding ^<7> should wish to see me – may I beg the favor of a Line at 17 Lincolns Inn fields mentioning what Hour will be most convenient to you on either of those days, to enable me to arrange my other engagements accordingly –

I am Dear Sir y^r much obliged Ser^t
W. H. Awdry

W. H. F. Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
Piccadilly
London

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Notes:

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

2. See Doc. No: 01839.

3. Philip Phelps, Surveyor of Taxes & Bailiff, Lacock.

4. Hammersley & Company, bankers, London.

5. Thomas Hayward (b. 1783), tenant farmer, Wick Farm, Lacock.

6. Nash Hill, also Naish Hill, a hill and farm 1 mi NE of Lacock, Wiltshire.

7. Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (1780–1837), Royal Navy; WHFT’s step-father.