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Ravensworth Castle July 18th: 1740
To Mr Thos. Simpson at Penrith
Sir
Inclosed we Send you a List of the Thornthwaite Tenants Named who has Cutt Wood there, and the Value thereof as it was Valued by Mr Pearson & Isaac Todd &c. There is also what Law Charges there ha been Occasioned by the Tenants Cutting the Sd. Wood added.
We Desire that you will Write to Each of them that you have not Received the Money off, & Demand the Sums in the List, & those that will not pay take their Answes which we shall Return the Board.
We did try the Board & Solicited for Mr Jefferson that his <sume> ought to be Mittigated but they took no further notice than this that we must Demand the whole. This we should have wrote you some time since, but being Hurryed forgott it, so that we hope you will make your Demand soon
we are Sir Your very Humble Servts
N. Walton H. Boag
The valuation, being very similar to that attached to the letter of 6 May 1740 from Walton & Boag to Corbett has not been repeated here. The only difference is in the addition of Simpson’s law charges of 16s and of £3 3s in law charges at London by Mr Radley, taking the total to £38 11s 10d.
