Letter – Hugh Boag to Shaftoe Downs – 21 Apr 1739

      Ravs Castle  21. April 1739

To Mr Shaftoe Downs



Dear Sir 

	I recd Yours Relating Matthew Brown. I Doe Remember when I Raggd him and told him that you would Sell your Coales as Cheap as any, but then I also doe Remember that I took it to be such as was fitt fa [sic] Lime Burned or you Sold others at 2 ½ d but I know nothing abt. Saying he might goe where he pleased, that is Notorious. As to Animating the Tenants we Joyntly wrote Mathew Brown and gave it under hand that if he did not desist Imediately from getting Coales there he sho’d  Enjoy no Farm under the Hospital longer than Mayday 1740.

	I have wrote this day to Mr Bunting and ordered him to Openly Publish it That those Tenants that doe not think fitt to obey us in desisting from getting Coales of them shall have no manner of favour of us on no Accot. As to Your petitioning I am Willing and Desire it in the Strongest Terms. I do think you should Sett on and work Coales where they work in order to keep Possession &c. I shall Encourage this as much as anything 

      I am Dear Sir Yrs &c

      H. Boag



PS I Desire youll pls to get us in the Inclosed List of Debts