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Decemb: 8th. 1729
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Sr.
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This with my humble Service to you & I am very Sorry that I have
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this occasion to trouble you with this Letter for notwithstanding that I
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had agreed with you for
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Clay Tye Farme
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I do find myselfe not able to
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Stock it for I had lent the greatest part of my mony as I thought into very
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good hands but to my great dissappointmt. find it not so for I
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cannot get it in now & am afraid I never shall get it at all I therefore
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humbly beg that you would be pleased to excuse me from having the
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Farme for this great dissappointment makes me so very uneasy that
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I am not capable of doing my business & I thought it mere proper to
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acquaint you with my present Circumstance now then that you
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should find it so in a Year or two's time for I think that may do
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your Farme a discredit as well as ruin me
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from Yor humble Servt.
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John Enever
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Mr. Glascock
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St. Thomas's Hospl. 13o. Decemb:
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On the 2d. instant Mr: Eniver came to an Agreement with us
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for Clay Tye Farme & since wrote me a Letter of which above is a
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coppy I did not take him to be so weak a man as to imagine so
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Superficial a pretence wou'd not be seen thro' And I did not take
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him to be so injudicious as to make a bargain one day & repeat of
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if the next Had he been over reached or otherwise ill used he might
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have had reason to complain but as there is no such thing in the
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Case he must in all reason stand to his bargain I perceive he is
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afraid of the usual Covenant to maintain & uphold for fear of fire
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whereas the hazard of that is so small that it is to be insured for
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about ten or twelve Shillings a Year or thereabts. So that he frights
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himselfe abt. nothing if he has a mind to speak abt. any matters
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we shall have a Committee on Wednesday next at ten or eleven
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o clock And when you come to town I shou'd be glad to see you
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to talke abt. Setting forward the buildings & matters agreed to be
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done I am
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Yor Affectionate friend
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Charles Joye
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St: Thomas's Hospl:
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15th Janry 1729
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Sr.
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I wrote you last Saturday & thought I might have Seen
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you here yesterday for I told you it is time to be thinking
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of the Buildings & what else is to be done at Clay Tye
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Farme: I hear that Mr. Enever is not yet gone thither
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but neglects the Land, he knows he is under Articles
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What he meanes I can't tell: we shall have a
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Committee next Wednesday morning, & if he hath
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anything to say, it will be a proper times to be here
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& if your occasions call you this way pray let us
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see you I amyr. humble Servant
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To Mr.
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Robt: Glascock
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Breeze
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