| Description | 1. 25 Sep from Harold Brakspear expressing sorrow at Charles' loss of the cottages at Wick Lane, asking how they had not been insured and that his brother was available to measure any excavations for any new water pipes. Further comments on Brakspear's engagement to measure the gatehouse chapel in Furness.
2. 8 Oct from Harold Brakspear on his return from Furness, commenting that the grant application to the "Antiquities" must be sent in the first week of November, that the committee at Langley was proceeding with their works, describing his visit to Furness and commenting on Charles' acquisition of a tricycle.
3. 31 Oct from W Hurle Clarke, Diocesan Registry Office, enclosing a statement of additional consecration fees of £9.16.6.
4. 2 Nov from the Bishop of Bristol regarding the fees for consecration of additional burial land and agreeing that these could be limited to £3.8.0 as previously mentioned.
5. 3 Nov from W Hurle Clarke confirming that the Bishop had named £3.8.0 as the cost of consecration and in the circumstances this would be the fee although he thought that the provisions of the Consecration of Churchyards Act only applied to existing churchyards or those belonging to Union Houses.
6. 4 Nov from W Hurle Clarke returning the conveyance to Lacock Parish Council dated 24 Sep 1898.
7. 4 Nov from Harold Brakspear to say he is sorry to have missed Charles' visit, that he would make enquiries with a practical man regarding the water on the common and that an application had been sent to the Antiquaries.
8. 7 Nov from William Gilchrist Clark Maxwell asking that now the "new" cemetery had been consecrated and if Charles Henry Talbot could visit him at Aston-on-Clun for a few days.
9. 9 Nov from Priscilla Awdry enclosing contributions for the consecration fees from herself and her mother.
10. 30 Oct from John Bocie, an American architect, requesting permission to visit Lacock Abbey. |