| Description | Letter from Daniel Lysons to Holland Watson Esq., Congleton near Lyme, Cheshire, asking for the name of the present owner of Downes in Sutton. The information is written in another hand on bottom left corner of page
Rodmaston near Cirencester
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Sir
I shall keep back the sheet which contains the greater part of Macclesfield, a little while, perhaps a fortnight, for the purpose of supplying one or two names & dates: one of these possibly you may be more successful than Mr. Brown in Your endeavour to find out; the name of the present owner of Downes (now as I understand no longer calld a Manor but merely a farm) in the township of Sutton; the original seat of the Downes family & one of those Manors which was formerly held by the service of free forestry. I remain/Sir/Your much obligd humble Servt.
Danl. Lysons.
(In another hand)
Jno. Poole Charlotte Street
Bloomsbury Esq. Owner of
Downes now sold to Mr. Jno. Clulow.
English
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