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Letter from Robert Mitchell (agent to the Conington Estates) to Mr. Robinson at Sir...

Catalogue reference: CON 7/2/5

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CON 7/2/5
Title
Letter from Robert Mitchell (agent to the Conington Estates) to Mr. Robinson at Sir Gilbert Heathcote's bank, Grosvenor Sq., London.
Date
23 Apr 1771
Description

Criticism of Mr. Weston who has been employed to do the estimates etc. on the (Conington) estate by Heathcote, & assertion that Mr. Hinde would have been better, because he knows the country better. Mitchell's original estimate for the tenants' repairs etc. was £1,500 but now that Mr. Hoddell has made such promises to the tenants Mitchell estimates that the repairs will cost another £2,000.

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Huntingdonshire Archives
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/171b5f93-4bda-498a-ab45-5e2d4ced4d5f/

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CON 7

LETTERS.

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Letter from Robert Mitchell (agent to the Conington Estates) to Mr. Robinson at Sir Gilbert Heathcote's bank, Grosvenor Sq., London.