ECR 54 279
Reference code
ECR 54 279
Title
Mixed Estates: Letter concerning College lands
Level
Item
Date
13 March 1753
Extent & medium
2 folios
Content description
J Smith, King’s College, to the Rev Dr Burton at Eton, answering his question whether it is for the advantage of the College to keep such manors as Hullavinton in their own hands or to lease them. “It most certainly is for the advantage of the College to keep them in their own hands, for a tenant may permitt the copyholders to introduce practices greatly prejudicial to the interest of the College, which in length of time will obtain the force of old customs….he may likewise for the sake of present advantage give leave to copyholders to sell timber off their estates whereby such estates will be impoverish’d, ... if you consider the increase of income which will accrue to the College by taking the courts into your own hands, that alone would be sufficient to determine you to do it. Whatever the profits of the courts...as the case now stands the College can receive that sum only once in 7 years…”
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