[COYNE] THE TALBOT PAPERS 98 



Surveyor General Ridout to Talbot. 



Survey Gens. Office, 



York 11th December 1824. 

 My dear Sir : 



I am to apologize for having so long deferred replying to your letter 

 of the 24th November, but I previously wished to be well informed re- 

 Bpecting the Crown & Clergy Eeserves on the Long Wood Eoad, and I 

 have seen Major Hiliier on that Subject. The Crown Eeserves are under 

 your location, but those of the Clergy remain with the Corporation 



all pieces of land containing less than One Hundred acres 



are specially reserved of which description are the N. W. parts of the 

 Lots 12, 13, & 14 on the Eoad in Carradoc. 



I am much obliged to you for entering me for the Lot 18, 4 Cons. 

 Zora. I will write to Mr. Burwell to get the settlement Duty done. 



I remain my dear Sir 



Very truly yours 



. Thos. Eidout, 



Sur. Gen. 

 The Honble Col. Talbot. 



Bishop Mountain to Talbot. 



Marchmont 6th April 1825. 

 My Dear Sir, 



If it were proper to trouble jom with an account of all the obstacles 

 ^vhich have hitherto prevented my answering your letter, you would I 

 persuade myself forgive my apparent inattention for no idea can have 

 entered your mind I trust, that I should not at all times have great 

 pleasure in obeying your commands, as far as may be in my power to 

 do so. 



Your recommendation of Mr. Burwell ^ shall be considered as far 

 as you yourself would wish it to be so ; for you would not I am confident 

 desire that injustice should be done to them, in order to promote his 



interest The Candidates for Orders in these Provinces are extremely 



numerous. Of these, four are Students with allowances from the So- 

 ciety, and these, of course, as they successively come of age, stand first 



1 Burwell was 42 years of age at this time. He had been defeated in the 

 general elections, and may have decided to enter the Church. Possibly, how- 

 ever, the reference may be to his son Hercules, who afterwards succeeded 

 his father as Registrar of Middlesex. Talbot's recommendation was, however, 

 not acted upon. 



