Letter – Nicholas Walton to Richard Horne – 5 Mar 1754

By - gregpfinch5 Mar 1754
Document Type: Letter
Date: 5 Mar 1754
Correspondent: Nicholas Walton
Recipient: Richard Horne
Archive Source: TNA ADM 66 108
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To Richard Horne Esqr.                                     Ravensworth Castle Mar 5th  1754



Sir 

      We received yours of the 27th February last with the Boards Minutes of that Date by last Post, in answer to which Mr Bigg is Rector Impropriate & Vicar of Ovingham & as such is Intitled to all manner of Tythes both great and small which have been all payd in kind out of Whittle Estate except Hay; in Lieu of which the Hospital Tenants pay a Modus of Two Shillings Annually.  The last Summers Crop of Potatoes were the first growth of them in Whittle Estate, so that this is the first demand we have had of the kind.  We are 

      Sir    Yours etc Walton & Boag

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