To Mr. J. Browning Hastingleigh near Wye
SirSt. Thomas's Hospital 5, May 1803.

I have received your favour of the 9th Inst. enclosing a bill
(due the 15 Inst) on Stephenson Balsam & Co. for £75. for half a
Year rent due from Sir J. Honywood Bart. as Michaelmas last,
which will be duly placed to her credit, & for which I now when
you the Receipt. Will you be so good, at your Lesure,
it when you have Occasion to write again, to let me know for
this Information of the Treasurer what Timber there is on the
Estate for to cut, or rather that ought to be cut for the Benefit
of the Hospital. We have had no Returns of this Kind since the
Year 1800, & as the Treasurer has never seen the Estate he wishes
to know how many years are necessary to interverse between
each fall. At Parndon in Essex, where the Hospital has about 100
Acres in Wood we have falls every year. Your Woodo contain, I
believer between 60 & 70 Acres, & if from the Povertly of the So it
or any other Circumstance, it may not be adverable to have
annual falls, you have I present, a certain Rule to go by, &
your Information on the Subject will be acceptable.

The Treasurer desires her Comps & I am EtcI.A.

To Mr. Benja Chambers< no role > , Tibshelf near Mansfield
SirSt. Thomas's Hospl 28 May 1803

I cannot advers to the date of your last Letter (received
some time in last Month) became the several Letter you have
lately wrote in the Subject of the Collery Lease were given to
Mr Cromwell the last time he was here to enable him to me her
such Alterations in the draft of the lease as you cleaned from
the Hospital as just & fair & agreeable to accustained Usage
in such Undirect charge; & Mr Cromwell has for some time part
been confined to her Chamber by a fever (from which he is row,
thank God, receiving) on which Account the business has been
protrarted; to wever, I can inform you that the Concessions
you claim will by I believe, all allowed & therefore you
may in the yourself my about them, & I have only to ask
whether you would wish to have the draft, when amended, sent
down to you again, or whether a Letter from Mr Cromwell Sy
nefying what Alteractions are made will be equally satisfactory
to you. The Expectation of some Answer to your last Letter
what has been delayed for the Reasong [..] tioned has
per less occasioned a delay of the Remittance you apreed to