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To Mr. J. Browning Hastingleigh near Wye<lb></lb>
SirSt. Thomas's Hospital 5, May 1803.</p>
<p n="847">I have received your favour of the 9th Inst. enclosing a bill<lb></lb>
(due the 15 Inst) on Stephenson Balsam & Co. for £75. for half a<lb></lb>
Year rent due from Sir J. Honywood Bart. as Michaelmas last,<lb></lb>
which will be duly placed to her credit, & for which I now when<lb></lb>
you the Receipt. Will you be so good, at your Lesure,<lb></lb>
it when you have Occasion to write again, to let me know for<lb></lb>
this Information of the Treasurer what Timber there is on the<lb></lb>
Estate for to cut, or rather that ought to be cut for the Benefit<lb></lb>
of the Hospital. We have had no Returns of this Kind since the<lb></lb>
Year 1800, & as the Treasurer has never seen the Estate he wishes<lb></lb>
to know how many years are necessary to interverse between<lb></lb>
each fall. At Parndon in Essex, where the Hospital has about 100<lb></lb>
Acres in Wood we have falls every year. Your Woodo contain, I<lb></lb>
believer between 60 & 70 Acres, & if from the Povertly of the So it<lb></lb>
or any other Circumstance, it may not be adverable to have<lb></lb>
annual falls, you have I present, a certain Rule to go by, &<lb></lb>
your Information on the Subject will be acceptable.</p>
<p n="848">The Treasurer desires her Comps & I am EtcI.A.</p>
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To Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMTHLB55003_n849-1">Benja Chambers</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55003_geo319">Tibshelf</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHLB55003_geo320">Mansfield</rs>
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SirSt. Thomas's Hospl <rs type="date" id="LMTHLB55003_date147">28 May 1803</rs>
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<p n="850">I cannot advers to the date of your last Letter (received<lb></lb>
some time in last Month) became the several Letter you have<lb></lb>
lately wrote in the Subject of the Collery Lease were given to<lb></lb>
Mr Cromwell the last time he was here to enable him to me her<lb></lb>
such Alterations in the draft of the lease as you cleaned from<lb></lb>
the Hospital as just & fair & agreeable to accustained Usage<lb></lb>
in such Undirect charge; & Mr Cromwell has for some time part<lb></lb>
been confined to her Chamber by a fever (from which he is row,<lb></lb>
thank God, receiving) on which Account the business has been<lb></lb>
protrarted; to wever, I can inform you that the Concessions<lb></lb>
you claim will by I believe, all allowed & therefore you<lb></lb>
may in the yourself my about them, & I have only to ask<lb></lb>
whether you would wish to have the draft, when amended, sent<lb></lb>
down to you again, or whether a Letter from Mr Cromwell Sy<lb></lb>
nefying what Alteractions are made will be equally satisfactory<lb></lb>
to you. The Expectation of some Answer to your last Letter<lb></lb>
what has been delayed for the Reasong<obscured></obscured>
tioned has<lb></lb>
per less occasioned a delay of the Remittance you apreed to</p>
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