Dear Sir I am much obliged for your letter, with the curious particulars about the Bartons. The cow is delightful!

But Manydown is not a mistake, it is near Basingstoke, and (I believe) held on the tenure of receiving the Winchester scholars if the plague was in the city. I have known many of the family of Bigg, who two generations ago, took the surname of Wither, on inheriting Tangier Park from the ... continue reading