4 " THE LOYAL DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 



selling to all that came, as well the Cordwood as the Timber, 

 and had sould good quantities of both before I medled, see that 

 all had beene gone before this t\ me if I had not been brought in 

 to buy it, and my Lord had had nothing for it, as well as the 

 wood in Kirk by Parke, Ciipstow Paike, and other of my Lord's 

 woods where of he had noe benefitt at all. For that at Ciipstow 

 my Lord Mansfield had of us looo"- * and I have heard Sir John 

 Digby say his father sould that manor and the wood for under 

 8oo"- " 



[The writer, upon his return from London, had prepared an 

 accompt, choosing rather to pay for the wood "than to rely on 

 the Act for Confirmation of Sales, or to have any dispute with 

 my Lord about it."] 



" [Signed] 



" your freind and servant, 

 " G. S. 



" Its a sad thing if there be noe difference made between a 

 freind and an enemy.'' 



" for my honored freinde, 



"George Sitwell, Esq'■^, 

 " at Renishaw. 

 " Welbeck, the 14th of November, 1660. 



" Sir, I received your letter, and presented the contents of it to 

 my Lord Marquis who is satisfyed with it, and seems to have a 

 good opinion of )ou as of any body, and, at your returne from 

 London, his Lordship desires to see you, and then hee will 



* " 13 September, 1656. — Indenture between the right honble. Charles 

 Cavendish, Viscount Mansfield, and George Sitwell of Renishaw, Esquire, 

 Paule Fletcher of Walton, gent., John Magson & Robert Singleton, both of 

 Worksopp, & Godfrey Wolstenholme, of Chesterfield, carpenter. Whereas, 

 William Skinner and William Robinson (surviveing Trustees for the sale of 

 lands forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason) did, by indenture of l6th 

 March, 1654, sell to Ji'hn Clarke of London, draper, all those timber trees in 

 the manor of Clipston for 99 years ; And whereas John Clarke did by 

 indenture of 10 November, 1655, sell the same to Geoige Sitwell and the 

 aforesaid persons : This indenture witnesses that the said Charles Viscount 

 Mansfield having received looo //. doth confirm to the said parties all such 

 timber trees." 



