JB/537/198/002

Click Here To Edit

a Deed of Gift whereby I have convey'd to your Uncle Grove
In trust for you, in regard you yourself are under age,
my Estate at Eastwood, and such Part of the Estate
at Barking as is let to the Malster. both wch. are
let to good Tenants at £103. a year, and wch. I
propose shall be paid to you from this last Michaelmas.
I have likewise with the assistance of Mr Clarke been all
over Lincoln's Inn & both the Temples to get Chambers
for you, and have luckily met with a Set wch. tho' not
large are yet very neat & very pleasantly situated
in the Elm Court No. 1. & which front the Inner Temple Lane
where you have a full View of the Garden that has
a Fountain constantly playing, and as the Chambers
were compleatly furnish'd and the furniture to be dispos'd
of I got Mrs. Abbot to give me her opinion of 'em, and
indeed theyre are is an Elegance in the furniture from their
being so well adapted to the Chambers, that she was
much pleas'd with 'em, and at her Recommendation I have
actually bought all the furniture & paid for 'em, at
the Valuation of £70 — wch. I was the rather inclin'd to
do as by purchasing the furniture I reduced the Rent
of the Chambers to £21 a year wch. wod otherwise
have been £35. and wch. wod have been too much
for you to Pay. As I propose to Paper the Upper Rooms
here & to put a Bed in the Room where your Books were, I
have removed your Books to your Chambers, where there
are two handsome Sash Book Cases to Receive them, so that
when you come up to Town you will find a Set of Chambers
compleatly provided with every Convenience ready for you,
and nothing that I can think of wanting for your Accomodation
and now have plac'd you in such a Situation; surely I
may claim every Return that might be expected from
a child for whom I have ever shewn the tenderest regard; I

Identifier: | JB/537/198/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.
Date_1	1766-10-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	198	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number
Box Contents