1700s early (B04D48) : Draft promissory note and draft letter

Update on Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 10:33PM by Petra Mitchinson

Early 1700s. DRAFT PROMISSORY NOTE AND DRAFT LETTER. Bundle 4, Doc 48. 19.5 cm x 16 cm. Doc 49 was placed inside this once folded Doc 48. Half of the original size page, torn off to use as scrap paper. Dirty crumpled edges with some small tears. The promissory note and letter are clearly drafts with lots of corrections, in the handwriting of Jeffrey BECK. A Mrd~ Know all men by these prsents That wee William COLLINSON of Penreth in the County of Cu~d lets [?] Furrier and Christopher PHILLIPSON of the same Furrier doe hereby acknowledge our selves to be oweing and Indebted unto Sr Christopher MUSGRAVE Barrt of Edenhall Swallow Street in the County of Middlesex Cumbrd Barrt the whole and Just sum of fifty one pounds a 13 Cul of rabbets [squeezed into a gap] [marginal note:] one Thousand one hundred and Eleven Cuple of Rabbets of Lawfull money of Great Brittain which sd sum wee doe hereby promise for our selves our heires Exectors and administrators to pay unto the sd Sr Christopher MUSGRAVE or his order in manner and forme following (That is to say) Twenty five pounds att Whitsontide next comeing and November th 11 commonly called martinmas day next comeing the other sum of Twenty five pound being the full remaines of the sd sum of fifty one pounds wee promise to make punctuall paymt as wittness our hands ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Honrd Sr youe have Inclosed a Bill per 40£ which youe will be pleased to add to the acct of the Rents Mr HOW and I must pray leave to acquent youe That Mr John ETKINSON vicar of Kirby Stephen has bee and an attorney with him has been with all yor Farmers of hartly Demaisne to Demand there Tyth wooll and Lamb &c. which have never been Demand or pd to any vicar to m vicar of Kby Steven att any time or age before [ ] This The Tenant and told farmers If they did not come in 14 [?] dayes to greeson [ ] he wod sue them att the Law upon this the tenants came to me [ ] Inquered if the there had ever been a demand before some answered [ ] had ben herfers [?] forty years and ther farthers forty years before [ ] [The last 9 lines are faint and in poor handwriting, and the paper is quite dirty in places – impossible to make sense of the few words that can be read.]