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RefNoKMAN1/A/16/50
AltRefNoM16/50
TitlePersonal and professional correspondence of Thomas Hodgson, agent to Sir Robert Bernard
DescriptionMostly relating to the management Bernard's estates in Huntingdonshire, Essex, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire. On subjects such as the sale of timber, brick works at Hartford, wages for labourers, livestock, repairs, oyster catching [at Hadleigh], inclosure, tenants, sale of lands, tree planting, the Ellington turnpike gate, elections at Huntingdon, complaints about the amount of meadowing by tenants, payment of taxes, provision of venison for the races at Bedford etc.

Also includes several gossipy letters from Hodgson's former colleagues and friends in Yorkshire and London and from his brother Caleb and sister Ann with family news and an account of their father's death and funeral [mostly Hellifield, Catterick and Marske in Yorkshire].

Other correspondents include: J. W. Bingley of Knottingley [Yorks]; Thomas Pooley of Upwood; Joseph Butler of York; William Jamison of Thorpe nr Peterborough; J. Whiston; Thomas Kirkby of Catterick [Yorks]; Robert Green of Stoke More Hall [Suffolk?]; Thomas Dexter of Godmanchester; John Ballard of Dacre Street, Westminster [London] and Billericay [Essex]; John Laycock of Pelhall [Staffs]; John Jesson of Graiseley [Staffs]; Robert Grimditch of Chatteris; Matthew Roberts of Ramsey; Jeffrey Holmes of Cullum Street [London]; Christopher Thompson of Puckhill[?]; William Rogers of Brazen Head, Lindsell [Essex]; Richard Willoughby of Hadleigh [Essex]; E. Butler [possibly abbrev. for Elizabeth] of York; Thomas Stokes of Pelsall [Staffs]; James Kempston of Kettering [Northants]; Richard Ball of Northampton; William Smith of Peterborough; William Stephenson of Dean Street, London; G. White of Speenhamland [Berks]; John Thompson of Somersham; Susannah Simpson of Wisbech; John Roberts of Fetter Lane [London]; Henry Greene of Feering [Essex]; ? Webb at Kelvedon [Essex]; J. Pooley of Kelvedon; R. Dexter; P. Hurkin[?]; William Mansfield of Essington [Northants]; Richard Clark of York; Thomas Forrest of London; H. Grant; J. Haynes of Oundle [Northants]; James Hurtle of York; J. Phipps of Brampton; Charles Littlewood of March. There are also a couple of letters from Sir Robert Bernard in Bath.

Also one letter from Joseph Butler to John Ellison, surveyor, care of Thorpe Hall, with directions for a survey of the estates of Messrs Gowland and Gaylard at Wisbech.
Date1769-1774
CreatorNameThe Montagu family of Kimbolton Castle: estate and family papers
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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