Lacock
Friday
My dear Henry.
I send you the plan of the House Grounds &c for Mr Porter 1 & seriously hope it may tempt him.
Cattle 2 came to me this morning for money to pay his Journey Home - I told him he ought to have applied to you when you were here - that I could not & thought you would not do any thing about it but that if he pleased he might go to Mr Awdry 3 & desire him to write to you, or get anyone else to write for him - &c &c
on consideration however I think that as in the case of any other servant discharged for no Fault, you would pay his Journey, to [illegible] the place where you paid him - so in his, particularly as he made no charge for coming, (that I know of) it would be but fair to give something - If you in your Answer to Awdry therefore will direct him to give 2£ I will pay one of them -
Did you intend immediate possession of Cattles Cottage to be given to Fitzsimmons? 4 - if so the sooner he gets his wife out of M[archants] Lodge 5 the better - nothing has been said by me or your Mother 6 to Fitz: one way or the other [illegible] 7
Yrs aff
C. F.
Pray make Franklen 8 take the accompanying Note 9
W. H. F. Talbot Esq
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