Letters to John, marquis of Bute, including letters from Benjamin Ferrey of London, architect (L114/1, 3, 6-7 et seq.), Richard Faircloth, honorary secretary of the Provident and Medical Club at Newmarket (L114/4, 23, 50 et seq.), William Coleman Gill, steward at Harlow (L114/13, 17, 30 et seq.), George P. Collin, [?steward] at Kirtling (L114/17, 25, 35 et seq.), Rev. Edmund Hill of Kirtling Tower (L114/34, 39, 57 et seq.), J. Fairlie of the Provident Club at Newmarket (L114/51, 59, 64), John Henry Manners, fifth duke of Rutland (L114/70), John Fletcher of Belvoir Castle, steward to the Duke of Rutland (L114/71), and Rev. Hewith Carey, curate of the chapel of St Mary Magdalene, p. Harlow (L114/77, 81). The letters include references to the parsonage and almshouses at Kirtling, Jan. - Dec. (L114/1, 6-7, 25-7 et seq.), the fire at Luton Hoo and an incendiary fire in p. Harlow, Jan. (L114/2), the Provident and Medical Club at Newmarket, including the relief of the permanent paupers and fees in the Union Workhouse, Feb. - Oct. (L114/4, 23, 50-1 et seq.), a new church at Ashley, March - July (L114/8-9, 16, 24 et seq.), paid emigration from Kirtling, sailing from Southampton for Canada, March - Aug. (L114/10, 15, 19 et seq.), an agricultural show at Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, July (L114/34), scarlet fever raging in the p's adjoining Kirtling, including a number of deaths, Oct. (L114/57), an agricultural meeting at Saffron Walden, Oct. (L114/62), John Henry Manners, fifth duke of Rutland's system of draining on his estates in Leicestershire, Nov. (L114/70-1), petition from Lord Bute's tenants in p. Harlow for a reduction in the tithe composition, the corn crop having been poor and the price ruinously low, being about half the price it was when the petitioners compounded, Nov. - Dec. (L114/76, 80), the Walderhave Road Turnpike Trust, Dec. (L114/78, 82) and Ashley Clothing Club, Dec. (L114/83).
