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no avoyding off, and then it cost me fourteen hdd. 

 (hundred) and fifty pounds* to take a new lease of 

 the tythes. Some time after I gave 2,400 for Mr. 

 Buning's share of Winchelsea, which I bought purely 

 because I knew it to be a very improveable estate, 

 and the greatest part of itt being alreddy (for reasons 

 you know) in my possession : I could make more of itt 

 than another. Itt has proved allreddy to my ex- 

 pectation, for I have been offered considerably more 

 than itt cost me ; butt I am sensible 'tis yett capable 

 of a far greater improvement. I have further, as my 

 conveniency led me in Halting and Grinstead, pur- 

 chased severall odd parcells of land, some of a near 

 relation, in the whole to the value of 400. 



" My Lord, I have portioned out two Daturs, after 

 maintaining and breding up a great number of chil- 

 dren, f all att my own expence, except Jack, whose 

 education indeed was wholly owing to your bounty. 



" I have been liable to pay 100 a-year in annuity 

 to my wives' relations, and fifty pounds to Mr. Inboro', 

 nor did any of them drop till about two years since, 

 tho' now indeed they are all dead. I also paid some 

 years 50 p. ann. to my Cosn Cope by y r - direction till 

 such time as she marry'd. I suffer'd by Robert Randall 

 when he ran away, and had a considerable losse by 

 Waldegrave when he broake : great part of the expense 

 has been all along double tax'd. 



" Having now laid before your Lordship the occa- 

 sions of my debts, give me leave to observe to you the 

 course I may take to clear 'em. First I shall inform 

 you e tfee portion t&y- &e'e wi-fo will bring him. . . of 

 Winchelsea, and the other things I purchased among 

 them, w ch - are halfe y e Tythe of Hart, (ing), for we have 

 now the other moiety also w h - was in y e Ford family, 



^1,450 about ,4,000 of our money. The lease obtained 

 was for two lives. P. 494. 



f " I have brought up ten children." Duplicate draft of this 

 letter. Ibid. 



