Pièce 6 - Letter from Robert Pemberton Milnes to his mother Rachael Milnes

1 folded sheet.

Thorne. - Sent Faith on Saturday with 'the Sykehouse rents etc - they were as... anticipated very ill paid'. Faith has 'taken every thing he could lay his hands on that is saleable [possibly 'valuable'] on the premises of the most in debt, such as hay. Has sent money to his mother's bank account. 'Altho you have devolved on me the management of these matters I hardly know how to act. It becomes a question of humanity solely': Turner, for instance, the most in arrears, has ten children, and if he 'was sold up tomorrow would still be in your debt & he & his family turnd naked on the world'. Discusses other cases.

Has just returned from Peniston, where matters are much better than he expected; since nine tenths of the estate is grass, they ;do not feel the low prices of corn; has reduced some of the rents, and think they will go on at that lower rate. Further estate matters.