Transcript of the letter
The letter is addressed to Mr. Samuel Norris at Canterbury.
Yarmouth
15th Febry 1725
Sir,
Mr Augustine Cullyer, a Lessee of yours & of the Chapter of Canterbury, is dead for about four months since. He has made me his sole Executor, and I find on looking over his papers that he had neglected to renew his lease of Deopham for some years; and that the time fixt for paying the fine last set was the 2d of this month, beyond which time (as Mr Norris writes) you would be no longer bound to accept the fine then sett. I am directed by the Will to sell & pay debts, & I have already given such order that I hope in very few months to raise sufficient money to answer all the demands upon his estate, and I do assure you that my first care shall be to pay the fine & renew the Lease, as Mr Cullyer ought long since to have done.
It seems there is a new demand of the Vicar for the great tithes of Hawfield, he extending the bounds of that field to a much greater number of acres than it was ever supposed to consist of but as I am not at present master of the Case, I shall not trouble you about it till I can sufficiently explain it to you. All I beg at present is that no advantage may be further taken from the delay of a few months; which time it will necessarily take to raise money from the Estates I have ordered to be sold. I desire this the rather because I shortly expect the return of his only child, a young man of about nineteen years of Age who is now at sea. I should be proud to know your thoughts of this affair directed either to me at Yarmouth of to John Jermy Esq at Norwich.
I am
Your most humble servant
Richard Ferrier.
Chapter of Canterbury Archives U63 70379
Transcription © G. Sankey
Comments
The Rev. Richard Adams instigated legal proceedings via a Mr Jay to claim his rights to the Hawfield tithes. Also, the Rev. Rix in his letter of 1723 had mentioned the subject of the Hawfield fields. The entitlement to the tithes from these fields (named Tweyt and Sumercroft) goes back to a declaration by the Bishop of Norwich in 1227.
The original letter
Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter of Canterbury; their ref U63 70379
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