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Will[iam] Wight at Arley to [Adam Ottley]. Almost three years' interest is due. The recipient says in his letter that he cannot safely pay it to anybody but the legal representative of Mr Ward. If the recipient will let the writer's sons have £30 or £40 the recipient will have what security he pleases for it. His wife has enclosed a letter to 'my Lord B.'.

Will[iam] Ward to Adam Ottley. The bearer, who is married to the writer's aunt Wight's daughter, has occasion for the £200 which the recipient promised to pay in part of his bond. The writer asks the recipient to let the writer have the said £200 together with a year's interest due. Subscribed: memorandum in the recipient's hand that he paid Mr Watkins, the bearer of the letter, £200 principal.

Will[iam] Ward to [Adam Ottley]. He received the interest due upon Mrs Wolryche's bond. Mr Wight's two sons not being of age he cannot approve of paying them their shares of cousin Wolryche's legacy until they can give proper discharges for it, and so he desires the recipient to forbear paying in the £400 until he receives further notice from the writer. Endorsed: note of interest paid.

Will[iam] Ward to Adam Ottley at Pitchford. Interest on the recipient's bond; the £37 which the writer received the previous week from the recipient for the use of Mr Wight's children, and which he has acknowledged on the back of the bond, ought to have been 10s. more. Endorsed: brief note of contents.

Will[iam] Ward to Adam Ottley at Pitchford. According to the recipient's request to pay the year's interest due the writer has drawn a bill upon him, payable to Mr John Watkins or his order. As soon as the recipient lets the writer know that the money has been paid it will be entered on the back of the bond. Subscribed: note that the money was already paid before this letter came to hand. Endorsed: note of principal and interest paid to Mr Ward in 1716.

W[illiam Wake, Bishop Of] Lincoln at Buckden near Huntingdon to [the Bishop Of St Davids]. He is very sorry the irregular usurpations of the recipient's predecessor Bishop Watson have given the recipient occasion to question the undoubted right of the bishop of Lincoln to present to the little vicarage of Llanlonny; details of his title. Endorsed: name of writer, date.

Will[iam] Tayleur at Salop to [Adam Ottley]. The previous morning there was a meeting of all the gentlemen in Shrewsbury, on both sides, at the writer's house, at which it was proposed and concluded that a general meeting should be advertised to be held at the next assizes, to consider a proper method for erecting a county hospital and to open a subscription for that purpose. He wishes the recipient to propose the matter to Sir Richard Acton, Mr Childe, Mr Walcot and Mr Baldwyn. Endorsed: brief note of contents.

Will[iam] Scott to the Rev. M. Adam Ottley to be left with S[i]r Adam Ottley's clerk at the chancery office in Chancery-Lane, London. He must be bold to beg a kindness of the recipient, not to suffer their 'mother the ch: of E' to be 'prostituted or debauched ravished or deflowred'. When the recipient's reverend brethren 'assembled agst her, shall give way to the taking fro her, her guards & protection' they may quickly expect to have her plundered. He requests the recipient to let him know 'wt light or favor yt great Luminary the Angell of the ch: of Lich. & cov: will vouchsafe ye vicar of Albrighton in the matter I discoursed to you of'.

William Roe to [Adam Ottley]. Mr Jackson has come from Shrewsbury to wait upon the recipient to request the favour of being made jailer.

W[illiam] Roe at Lilleshall to [Adam Ottley]. He was with Mr Moreton at Newport who showed him the bond from the late bishop of St Davids to Mrs Reddings. He told Mr Moreton of the commission to be held at Shrewsbury the following Wednesday, and desired that the bond might be produced before the commission[e]rs for proving the debt, but Mr Moreton declined to send the bond, except by his son's hand if it should be absolutely necessary. Endorsed: brief note of contents.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to [Adam Ottley]. His letter, which he suspects miscarried: he acquainted the recipient therein that Mr Wight's children expected their whole interest and £400 of the principal as soon as the decree could be settled. Endorsed: brief note of contents.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to [Adam Ottley]. He is inclined to believe that Mrs Ward sent the recipient a general order to pay in all the money without considering the extraordinary trouble it might put the recipient to in paying it all together. He will send the recipient a copy of the decree as soon as he has it. Endorsed: name of writer, date.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to [Adam Ottley]. He has not had an opportunity of seeing any of Mr Wight's children since the receipt of the recipient's dated the 6th July, so he cannot say whether they will expect the whole £800 to be paid in or not.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to [Adam Ottley]. He expected that the decree might have been settled before this time. The 'ordering part of the Decree': he would have sent the recipient an account of it by the following post had it been right. As soon as he can get the decree settled arrangements will be made for the recipient to pay the money.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to Adam Ottley at Pitchford. He herewith sends the recipient a copy of the decree, which he has got passed and entered; arrangements for the recipient to meet the plaintiffs and Mrs Keeling In Birmingham. First page: Copy decree of the Master of the Rolls, dated June 23 1722, in the cause between Joseph, William, Maria, Eliza, and Anna Wight, plaintiffs, and William Wight senior and Ursula his wife, John Watkins and Ursula his wife, Adam bishop of St Davids, Adam Ottley and Maria Ward, widow, defendants. Endorsed: brief note of contents.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to Adam Ottley at Pitchford. He has been at Arley to tell Mr Wight's children that the recipient is willing to pay them the whole £800 with interest, but the young gentlemen have not yet returned from Oxford and the young ladies wish for time to consider. Endorsed: name of writer, date.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to Adam Ottley at Pitchford. He got the cause wherein Mr Jos: Wight and others are plaintiffs and the bishop of St Davids, the recipient and others are defendants heard before the Master of the Rolls the previous Saturday evening; details of what was decreed. Endorsed: name of writer, date.

Will[iam] Priest at Birmingham to Adam Ottley at Pitchford. Arranging a meeting between his clients and the recipient in Birmingham; he has acquainted the bishop of St Davids with the meeting and requested him to send a servant with the money. Endorsed: name of writer, date.