Letter – Timothy Wrangham to Nicholas Walton – 9 Dec 1739

A Coppy of Mr Timothy Wranghams Letter to Messrs Walton & Boag the Originall sent the Board 11th December 1739



Gentlemen

	I some time agoe Sent you our York Bill, and my own in the Cause between Wood & Moore, a Coppy of which You afterwards returned to me, nmost Sadly mangled & Clipt by some new Spirituall Prothonotary.

	The Gentlemen at York are determined to Justifye their Bills and insist that I shall either Sue or be Sued for the whole Money. 

	As for my part I think I have as much reason as they can have to Insist upon my whole Bill, for I will readily make oath if required that Considering the Number of Letters I’vehad from York Especially for which I charged almost nothing, and the other expence I’ve been at in this Cause in Case my whole demand shou’d be paid toMorrow. I don’t beleive that I should pockett so much neat Money as the deduction amounts to.

	I treated in an amicable manner to have these bills paid till Ifound that treatys are useless things, and at last I was obliged to goe to an Open Rupture with Mr Wood.

	I have now brought an Action against him in the Spirituall Court for the Recovery of these Fees, where I must endeavour to prove by Witnesses from York & at Durham that of the £8:5:6  (pretended to be deducted) the odd 5s/6d is not an overcharge.

	I suppose Wood hath been advising with some person in our busyness who hath given him such Satisfaction as to the unreasonableness of these Deductions, that he’ll make no Defence. I told him (as in Justice I ought to do) that if any Mischief shou’d befall him on Accot of this prosecution I wou’d (upon occasion) produce the best Evidence I Could for him of your having Engaged to defend and & indempnifye him in this affair.

	One reason of my Writing new to you is, because probably you may Endeavour to Accomodate this matter, without further Expence. And another is that you Shall not hereafter say that any Design was Carryed on against Wood (without your knowledge) which may possibly Effect you in the End.

      Yours &c 

      Timo: Wrangham

Durham 9th Decem. 1739



PS  I’ll Willingly pay the Charge of this last suit against Wood my self  TW