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