CH/20/44/10

CH/20/44/10

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Items 122 to 130

1828-1838

9 sheet

Items 122-130: the sixth "sub-bundle". 122. Undated note. Addressed to "Rev'd Sir", with illegible signature (the same signature as on item 123). "Allow me to take this opportunity of thanking you for your letter of 11th March". "I have no doubt that the money was paid in due course". 123. 28 April 1838. Addressed to "The Very Reverend The Dean or the Canon in Residence, Salisbury" from 15 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East, London, with illegible signature (the same signature as on item 122). "Our Counsel, who are engaged in drawing our Case, are most anxious to have, as soon as possible, any information you can give them on the following subjects, - 1st. Any extracts from your Charter, or the Wills of your Founders, which declare what shall be the number of your Chapter . . . 2. Any extracts from such, or their authentic and authoritative documents, stating the use and purpose for which your Estate or other property have been given or bequeathed. The Petition from the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, of which I sent you a Copy a few days ago, has been seen and approved by our Counsel, who beg me to express to you their wish, that all the petitions may be as much as possible . . . of the same kind and form". The content and tone of the letter suggest that the author might be a representative of or otherwise connected with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as established under the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act of 1836. 124. 15 Apr, but no year. Letter to Archdeacon William Macdonald, with illegible signature, about "the Lease of Melksham" and "The House in High Street [Woodyear?]". 125. 12 Feb 1833, to William Macdonald from Robert Abraham Ford, Little Rissington. "I beg to return you my best thanks for your obliging letter, & beg that you will make my grateful acknowledgement known to the Dean & Chapter for their kind grant of £100 for the augmentation of Stourpayne [Stourpaine]". 126. 1 Feb 1833, to William Macdonald from Robert Abraham Ford, Little Rissington. A letter preceding Item 125 above, and on the same subject. "The Pitcombe Charity in March 1829 granted £100 for the augmentation of the Vicarage of Stourpayne & paid the money at that time into the hands of the Treasurer of Queen A[nne's] Bounty. As it did not suit the views of the Chapter to add to its amount, it has lain dormant ever since . . . I should be obliged by your directions whether the hundred pounds should be returned, or whether the Chapter have now the means to add to the fund already available . . . I have appointed a resident Curate, who inhabits the Vicarage". The letter bears an endorsement dated 7 Feb 1833 by the Dean, Hugh Pearson, writing from Guildford. "My dear Archdeacon, "Being uncertain whether the Bishop may not have migrated to London I think I may as well save the double letter & return this to you singly. There can be no doubt that we should meet the Pycomb [sic] Charity with our £100 . . . I deferred the Fabric Account till my Easter visit, but if you are disposed to relieve me from the duty, you will I think find the Book either on a ledge in my Study, or in the bottom drawer of three in the same room." Irregular seal in black wax with heraldic motif. 127. 5 May 1835, to Matthew Marsh (Canon Residentiary; Chancellor; Subdean, 1824-1840) from John Taylor, Cullompton. "I beg to return my warmest thanks to the Dean, Yourself & the Chapter for the present of five Pounds so obligingly conveyed to me by your hands. Not only is it a very seasonable & acceptable gift, as regards my pressing necessities: but moreover it will enable me to proceed with alacirity & spirit in my publication: which I believe has already gained your favourable notice, and that of the most excellent Prelate the Bishop of Salisbury". Broken small cicular seal in red wax. 128. 14 Dec 1828 to Thomas Henry Hume (Canon Residentiary 1803-1834, Treasurer 1806-1834) from John Iveson, Tottenham Park. A letter seeking to agree with the Dean and Chapter the "present price" of an unidentified property, referring to various sums paid since 1800. "I . . . trust that The Dean & Chapter will not require any more for the present price than the sum paid in 1821, which at that time was considered vary high indeed, and on hearing that 1200£ will be satisfactory, that sum shall immediately be paid". (Tottenham Park was the property of Charles Brudenall-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury, whose "financial difficulties . . . were caused by the enormous cost of rebuilding Tottemham and the fraudulent activiities of his steward John Iveson who was exposed in 1833" (The History of Parliament Online). Circular seal in red wax with heraldic motif, 20mm diameter. 129. 24 June 1834 to William Macdonald from John Burder, solicitor, of 27 Parliament Street, London. "Above is my statement, the £319-8-3 will be paid to the Treasurers account at Hoare's on Thursday". Endorsed on the verso, "Land tax dividends to April 1834". 130. Undated note, initialled only [by "J.O"?]. A draft of a Chapter resolution in response to a "second report" of "the Church commission", presumably the Eccelsiastical Commission established under the 1836 Act. The report recommended that "the patronage of Deans and Chapters", which "after preferment has been given under certain restrictions to members of their own body and to the Minor Canons" should go "in some cases to the Crown and in others to the Bishop". The draft resolutiion seeks to "resolve that such a proposed disposition . . . is uncalled for & unjust & that a memorial against it be prepared & sent to the Commissioners".