Catalogue description PHILIP SWALE to ROBERT, EARL OF LINDSEY, at Lindsey House.

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Details of 8ANC9/3
Reference: 8ANC9/3
Title: PHILIP SWALE to ROBERT, EARL OF LINDSEY, at Lindsey House.
Description:

--Concerning his difficulties in getting the tenants of Newton &c., and especially one Thos. Jackson, holding a farm at Newton, to pay their rents. Jackson having carried off his goods, Swale has applied to Justice Metcalfe, "Lord Wharton's steward of his courts," and to Ralph Cowley, the Earl of Ailesbury's bailiff, to stay any such goods found in their manors.

 

The letter begins "Robert, Earle of Lindsey, I am sory my desire to serve thee should be so much by the knavery of one of thy tenants prevented."

 

Ends, "I take leave, resting thyne in that which leads into true love and faithfulnes. The 9th of the 1st month cald March, 1667-8."

 

Seal with monogram of his name, P. Swale.

 

Also : --

 

Eight letters concerning rents and tenants from Swale to William Mabb, servant to the Earl of Lindsey, ranging in date from March 1667-8 to July, 1669.

Date: 1667-8, March 9
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 2 pages.

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