Thos. Hewett in London to Mr. Joseph Astley; complaint re delay in post - "I received...

Thos. Hewett in London to Mr. Joseph Astley; complaint re delay in post - "I received your two letters of the 17th and 23rd instant last post. I doe not know the reason why they came together being 6 days different in date unless they was stopped by the way; that of the seaventeenth was sealed with wax, the impression a head, the other of the 23rd sealed with a wafer, they came both to Town, the same day, that of the 17th dusty as if it had been carry'd in a pockett"; re Sherwood Forest "... suprised the verderors should act thus to the Kings disadvantage, Mr. Neale cannot but know the Kings officers and others that bought wood, ever did worke in the Fence Month, the proper time to pill the trees, and no damage to the deer nor forest, and the proper time to burn charcole as he himselfe has often done. These windfall trees and wood the Treasury has been severall times informed of, and gave me orders to sell and dispose of if the best I could ... gave orders to Samuell Strutt and Chas. Dawson my agents, to cutt up the cordwood ... to make the most profitt of it ... I desire you will goe on in coleing such cordwood as you have taken up and has been delievered to you and if Mr. Neale or any other person shall imprison your colliars and workmen take an account of the hours they shall be imprisoned, the time and persons names that discharge them ..."