| Description | “Directions for government in settling with Toye.” (With four bills and accounts.)
‘ Dear Sir,
I was with Mr. Boulton yesterday, talking over some little matters, and he desired I would give you a line, as he said his memory was not so good as he could wish it. The purport of this is therefore to remind you, when their is any settling betwixt Mr. Boulton and Toye, that I do not hold myself bound or accountable for any poor’s rates, levy’s, or tax’s he, Toye, may have paid prior to the 25th of March last inclusive. The articles betwixt Mr. Boulton and him binds me to pay the rent from Michaelmas to Lady Day, but not more, and more I shall not pay, as Mr. Toye has not treated me in the end in the most handsome manner.
Their is likewise a parcel of all sorts of rubbish left in the yard, which Toye calls dung, and offers it at 1/- per ton less than what Mr. Boulton has lately paid for his. It is nothing at all to me what Mr. Boulton pays for his manure; what Mr. Toye has left is a mere composition of all sorts of rubbish scrapt together and a quantity of old rotten tar, the whole of which I have had valued, by Potter and a very respectable neighbour of mine, and they say it is not worth more than 2/6 or 3/- per ton at most; therefore I will never pay 5/6 or 6/6 per ton for such rubbish. But as it is Mr. Boulton’s concern with Toye, it is his business to see me righted, and I must leave the whole to his management—only I was given the hint to take care and remind him how matters stand.
Toye has likewise left the windows in an untenantable way; therefore, he should have them repared, or I must get them repaired and charge it to Mr. Boulton and he must settle the matter with Toye.
You will please to be particular and remember these circumstances when Toye calls for a settlement with Mr. Boulton.
I am, with much respect, dear sir, yours respectfully,
James A. Hunter
Perry Hill,
28th May 1804.’ |