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Letter to Charles Boone giving an account of the dispute between the King and the Prince of Wales.
Letter to Thomas Theobald talking of England being under threat of invasion from Spain, in favour of the Pretender, headed by the Duke of Ormond.
Letters to his brother Sharington asking him to pay interest.
Letter to Joseph Cox asking him to contact Robert Barrett, his brother's steward, to find out what he remembers about their father's estate which was entailed.
Letter to Talbot Ivory about Sharington Davenport's death in Ireland, talks of Sharington's will and money owed to and from Sharington Davenport.
Letter to Charles Boone telling of the death of Madame Chardin: "The old ill-natured woman died as she lived giving the whole power of that estate to two Frenchmen, one is worth nothing and the other God knows how it is with him, not so much as either of us to have a check over them or a concern in it". Madame Chardin had left three quarters of her estate to Henry Davenport's children and the rest to Charles Boone's son.
Letter to Robert Barrett to say he will need a million bricks or more to build his house.
Letter to his sisters Letitia and Arabella asking them if they are joining with Dr Hallifax in a lawsuit against him concerning Sharington Davenport's estate.
Letter to Dr Hallifax: "In return to this you take upon you to answer for all and begin to call me the vile scoundrel fellows that can be for imposing an account upon you that is made up in my own way, though in having used all the clandestine tricks imaginable for vouchers I have thereto you are so kind to intimate some of them deserve the pillory that is the producers of them."
French accounts at the back upside down. (1711-1712)
Letter to the executors for Madame Chardin's estate with his concerns over his children and Charles Boone's son possibly losing their inheritance if a proper account was not made quickly and evidence taken from people who are in England. |