| Description | Contains letters to:
C H Talbot: estate matters
A H Lapham, Chippenham Rural District Council: removal of gravel; enteric fever at Mrs Reeve's house; sewage disposal at Notton House.
Ferris Puckridge
Geo Milsom, Wick Farm
P D Awdry
Frederick Hunt: arrears of rent; notice required to leave a house
Job Elmes senior, Gastard: arrears of rent
E A Hunt: arrears of rent
James Banks: arrears of rent
Lewin Spackman: includes asking for rent for Wayleave from The Corsham Waterworks Co
William Pegler
James Fry: re key to gravel quarry
Edmond Awdry
James Banks, Bromley: arrears of rent
D Owen & Co, Devizes: claim against estate of F Croker
E C Petgrave
Frederick Croker, Bowden Hill
J Skeate: proposed Meal House and Cow House
The British Linen Co, Bank
Samuel Bethell, Bowood
Coutts & Co, The Strand, London
W J Pocock, New Farm, Corsham: arrears of rent: shooting rent; farm husbandry: hand New Farm to his son
The Great Western Railway Co: requesting payment of tithes due
J West Awdry: Red Lion not for let
Wood Awdry: chancel of Lacock Church, tithes
Edwin Bath: arrears of rent
Thomas Holloway
William Rowlett
George Selfe: details of allotment plots on Corsham Road for rent
Herbert N Matthews: plans for Red Lion
J Crook
J Shell: offered cottage to rent in Forest Road previously occupied by Mr Chivers; arrears of rent; notice to quit
Shaw & Sons
Cooling & Sons, Bath: requesting catalogue for apple trees
Mr Frayne, Spye Park
Smith Marshall; acting for Charles Awdry: William Self should clean out the ditch, but he is an obstinate man
W J & D Awdry
Edward C Clothier: arrears of rent, broken panes of glass; notice to quit cottage in High Street, Lacock
Mrs Jane Flower: notice to quit cottage in High Street, Lacock
Mrs Harcombe: she would like a house to rent
R Page, Beanacre: unable to rent the cottage requested
Mrs Tanner: she should whitewash the cottage herself
F Heath, Bowden Hill: request for rent
W Joyce: request for rent
J Chivers junior: request for rent
John Chamberlain, Wick Lane: request for rent
Lansdown & Son, Trowbridge: to place advert
R Belborough: details of the Red Lion
G Boone, Hardenhuish House: the Red Lion
J R Willis, Bath: the Red Lion
H Strange, Marshfield:the Red Lion
J D Mote, Heytesbury: the Red Lion
C Ferrett, Keevil: the Red Lion
Joseph Powell: the Red Lion
J Grant: the Red Lion
W H Lawton: the Red Lion
J Elliott, Derry Hill: Poor Rate
G A H White: tithes from the estate of Sir Frances Fowle
Tuckett & Sons: tithes from the estate of Sir Frances Fowle
W J Guley: letting the remaining tenancy of Wick Farm from Geo Milsom, deceased; 5 acre field for rent
H Summers, Hinton, Bath: Wick Farm
R W Wordsworth, Ollerton: Mr Guley
B K Leonard, Sheldon Farm, Chippenham: Wick Farm
E A Hankey, Notton House: many letters concerning his tenancy
Jenkins & Webb: requesting repair of water pipes at several properties; painting the George Inn; enclosing payment for an acocunt
James Hillier: arrears of rent
Inland Revenue: clarifying amount of rent for the Red Lion paid by the tenant George Boone
The Surveyor of Taxes: an assessment of allotment land at Nethercote Hill, Lacock; questioning whether the Convalescent Home, Corsham Road, Lacock could be exempt from Property Tax
W E K Laurence: felling of trees near the railway line; need to take the water pipe for Wick Farm under railway bridge from branch line Chippenham to Trowbridge
F B Brewer: arrears of rent
Miss N J Gilchrist-Clark: asking for rent; payment of £150 for "The Larks House"
William Selfe: giving him notice to quit cottage; complaints re footpath across his arable field in Corsham road and his cows damaging hedge at Notton
The executors of John Elmes decd asking for balance of rent due
T Holloway: plans for The George
Messrs Stonwood & sons: character reference for Brewer
Harold Brakespear: plans
W Hulbert: painting Boys Club
A E Adams: water supply to various cottages
James Wild: cottages on Nathercote Hill belonging to the estate of William Gale decd
Miss Fowler, Gastard House: rent received; reference for James Barnes; regarding the sourcing and supply of water for Wick Farm
Elizabeth Latham: the Court Roll only allows one horse or two beasts in each leaze
R J Parker: Gale's property, Reybridge
C Wiltshire: timber, repair of fence
W Minty: rent
W K Joyce: rent
William Hudd: notice to quit
Edwin Bath: notice to quit
West Wilts Land Building Co
J Crew: cut and lay hedge
Tilke & Smith, Melksham: cart damaged quoin
J Hall: cut and lay hedge
Reginald Cripps, Broadway Chambers: work on the Red Lion; letting field to Lacock Sports Committee
G Taylor: walling up of doorway leading to alllotment land
The Station Master, Melksham: erecting a notice board
S Elliott, Derry Hill: Naish Hill Farm and Wood to be split up
Morrill Bros: insufficient notice to quit
W Wilkes, Woodhill: insurance matters; reporting fire damage to the house occupied by Emma Tanner in the High Street to the insurance company.
Downing & Redman, Chippenham: asking for estimate for laying floor
Dr Wells, Penzance:The Red House rent
E Holder: sale of timber
W J Holborow: sale of timber
C R Claridge, Exeter: sale of timber
W H Stanley, GWR Works, Swindon
T Burgess: sale of timber
Orchard & Co: sale of timber
W N Ledbury: representative of the Trust Co to attend Magistrate's session; transfer of the Red Lion to the Peoples Refreshment House Association
Frank Banks: insufficient notice to quit a field; sublet field: interior repairs to houses; rent arrears
Hurn Bros: sale of timber; used a traction engine to remove timber, despite instructions to the contraty. Richard Foley says he will not contract with them in the future
J Fry, Manor Farm: leases on Bewley Common
Joseph Allison: illegal grazing of goats on Bewley Common
Walter Cole: letting of house in East Street
H Read, Bowden Farm: ditch in Bowden Hill needs attention
Ernest H Bibbing, Bristol: asks for list of fixtures before discussing giving up the tenancy in High Street
Hill & Smith, Staffordshire: order for wickets and bows
A G Smith: arranging a meeting to discuss Phelps
Richard Jones: wishes to rent cottage occupied by Frederick Scott
George Farmer: offers cottage in East Street
J Barnett: rent arrears
F Banks junr: rent arrears
English Bros: order for fencing
Herbert Harris, Bowden House: Frederick Hunt, tenant at Bowden Hill, has asked for an elm tree to be felled.
Keary Stokes & White: a drain from the grave to the sewer; outstanding rent from previous tenant F Keen. Rumour suggests that F Keen went down in the Titanic; purchase of Milsom House.
E Slade: a lease on Bewley Common for £1
L Taylor: unsuccessful request to rent land at Gastard
Mrs Anne Humphries, Kingswear, Devon: request for rent, threatening a County Court summons
Mrs Austin: successful request to rent land at Gastard; rent for a field in Wick Lane; ditch clearance
H Gerrish: interested in renting a field
Mrs Wootton, Kingswear: speaking up for Mrs Humpries [see above]
Moberlly & Wharton, Southampton: nogotiations for Miss Awdry to rent Porch House
Miss Wheeler, Chippenham: applying for a cottage
The Rev C Hodgson, Westbury: notice to quit
Miss Mary Northey: tenancy of the Red House; tenancy of the Old Angel
W H E Greenhill: dispute between Greenhill and Mr Beer regarding a pony
F Keen, PC, Police Station, Fyfield: request for rent; notice to quit
Mr Nicholson Lailey: cost of repairing wall damaged by his motor car
F Hatherill, Coppershell, Gastard: rent request
A Skinner: unsuccessful request to rent a house
S Whatley, Carpenters' Arms: unsuccessful request to rent a house
Mr Holder: unsuccessful request to rent a house
J M Giles: 5 acre field for rent
A Dean: unsuccessful request to rent a house
C Ricketts: someone interested in renting a house in Church Street
J Lovelock: unpaid rent for allotment
Thomas Stevens: unpaid rent
Charles Wilson, Plumstead, Kent: details of house for rent
J Barnett: unpaid garden rent
John Hall: unpaid garden rent
Commercial Union Assurance Company: damage caused by small fires in Tower House occupied by Richard Foley and at Manor Farm; a broken leg sustained by a maid in the employ of the estate when she fell off a high pavement in the village.
Joseph Allison: details of house for rent
C Wiltshire: a tree fallen onto Frank Banks' land needs removing; broken gates need repair
W H Brinkworth, The Wharf, Chippenham: asking for details of an account
W J Taylor, The Council House, Bristol: Charles Henry Talbot wishes to present a book to the City of Bristol.
Mark Hill & Co: non-remittance of monies for timber bought
Thomas Martin: unpaid rent
Samuel Spinke, printer: requests for stationary
Gowen & Stevens: estimate for ladder to stove house; water ingress in stoke hole at Abbey
Mr Tilby: Raybridge house tenancy
John Chamberlain: rent arrears
Fred Banks, builder: work ordered by Lacock estate; broken fence; pull down the old Turnpike Cottage
W H Smith & Sons: order for envelopes
Frank Crew: needs to remain a monthly, not a quarterly, tenant
R W Tilley & Parry, auctioneer: Mr Fry gives notice to give up Manor Farm; James Fry deceased
C A H White: Railway Station petition
J J Newman: Manor Farm
F O Banks: unpaid rent;
R Jones: unpaid rent
Robert Huntley: giving up orchard and garden
Mrs Pike: Manor Farm
H E Medlicott: asking for reference for J J Newman for tenancy of Manor Farm
Mrs Fortune: stray fowl in her garden; asking if the cottage in Cantax Hill ready for let?
H G White, Whitley: Mr Newman and Manor Farm
Rev E E Hodson: Red House; Feb 1915 letter explains no properties are available for rent and gives details about the tenant of the Red House Mr W Burt, who is attached to 4th Somerset Light Infantry in India and saying that Cantax House is occupied by Belgian refugees.
W Spackman: rent arrears
Inland Revenue, Claims: questioning whether the Convalescent Home, Corsham Road, Lacock could be exempt from Property Tax
Thomas Lavington, auctioneer, Marlborough: fixtures at Mr Fry's
William Reeves, Inwood: rent arrears
W Joyce: rent arrears
Edwin Balchin: Wick Farm; Work required to be done
Cunningham & Giband: serious fire at Turnpike Cottage, Lacock
F Croker: underwood at Inwood
W Ballinger: underwood at Inwood
J G Powell: Turnpike House, Lacock: proposed improvements to roadway
Clifford Bax: answering a question about an old house which is not in a good condition
Mr Lysley: sublet of the Red Lion Stable
J Moore: gives rent due by her brother
G Curnick: purchase of underwood
C Kislinbury: Lacock notice board
Shaw & Sons: request for Tithe Rentcharge Tables
John Austin: rent and tithe for Manor Farm
Thomas Machin: rent arrears
J George Powell, County Surveyor: proposed widening of road at Old Toll House, Lacock
Mrs Saunders, Bristol: possible tenant
Mr Leeson: possible tenant
Mrs Emery: possible tenant
W L Barton: tithe arrears
Mrs Jonas Hunt: giving up tenancy at Bowden Hill
Samuel King: take over tenancy at Bowden Hill
Mrs George Farmer: rent arrears
J Pullen, Holt: possible tenant
W Ballinger: money due for underwood
Ernest Fennell: possible tenant of late Mrs Selman's house
E C Hunt: fitting a skylight over the stair case
W B Ennis: leave cash at the bank
J Jones: possible tenant
W Bevan: unsuccessful in gaining a tenancy
H Thurgood: take over tenancy in West Street.
E Wootton: rent for late Mrs Selwood's cottage
W S Crew: rent arrears
Mullins & Sons, Bath: work to locate a spring of water and arrange supply of water at Wick Farm; windmill a failure
Miss Estcourt: letting of the Porch House; drainage at Porch House
J C Goodwin: Banks is to make things safe
Herbert Tyson: unsuccessful in gaining a tenancy
Lady Shippard: rent for the Angel; allotment land
Easton, Courteney & Darbishire: seeking advice to obtain water from a spring
J Fullerton, Cottles Park, Melksham: using Mrs Reeves, a tenant, to convey messages to Mr Talbot
Rev A K Hobart Hampden, Bowden vicarage: land to rent; stones from old cottage at Bowden Hill
Mrs L Gardner: amounts payable on certain properties [water rates?]
Mr Holderness, Broadway Chambers: Red Lion
A W Bolter, Paddington: pipe under railway bridge
J Hall: garden and cottage rents
R E S Tanner, Ray Mills: notice required to quit Cantax House
Mrs Hawkshaw, Bath: tenancy of Cantax House
L H Marshall: tenancy of Cantax House
R T Rhodes: disinfecting a house after the death of a cancer patient
Meek Hill & Co, Warminster: inspection of 115 trees
Lady Clara Vincent: Cantax House probably not suitable for one who has rheumatism; the back entrance most unsuitable for a motor-car
Porter & Bowerman, Weston-Super-Mare: Cantax House
Mrs Fletcher: Cantax House
E G Arthur, Melksham: rentat Bewley Common
R T Rhodes
Sectional Engineer, P O Telegraphs: payment of wayleaves
The Bath Herald: payment of bill
E A Pink: re-siting of telegraph pole erected outside house of Mrs Ring, West St, Lacock
A Spiller, Tavistock: purchase of house in East St occupied by W Edmonds
Mrs Hunter, the Warden's House, Corsham: Cantax House
W J Ainsworth: Wilts and Berks Canal - needs time to reply as clerk away with the Yeomanry; Charles Henry Talbot's interest in purchasing the canal which passes through his property following the Swindon Corporation (Wilts & Berks Canal Abandonment) Act; Cantax House will not be let so long as war lasts as occupied by Belgian refugees
John Blake Ltd: Wick Farm water supply
Mrs Collett: allotment rent
Mr Ramsbottom: Rectorial tithes
J Howes: agent Foley is shorthanded owing to the war; agrees mr banks' holdings be valued together
A Spiller, Tavistock; purchase of house in East Street .
James Perkins: village lighting
Mrs J Heath: rent payments
Mr Austin: acreage of Naish Hill Woods
Pte F Crew; tenancy of house recently occupied by his father
Mrs Pullin: tenancy of house in High Street
W Pegler: house in High Street available; mention of Mrs Pullin employed to do the Abbey laundry
S Elliott: poor rate in Pewsham; incorrect acreage of woods
Miss Norris: requests permission to view the Cloisters
Joseph Stevens: has been cultivating land not belonging to him
Mrs Tom Flower: needs to give notice to quit to lodgers as house insufficiently large
Captain Wisland: enquiry from HQ Army Service Corps Lacock regarding the possibility of billeting in the village
W J Taylor: plantation of larch
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