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"The Manor of Worme-Leighton, when I was married, was let for £3,200, as will be made out by every body; and, not to value the thing more than it deserves, I dare say may, if it were managed as it ought to be, made much more of than it is, though not so much as when it was first settled, because lands every where are generally sunk, and particularly thereabouts.

"The rest of my Lord's estate is engaged, part of it for sixteen thousand pounds, which is the reason of my telling you we could noways marry my Lord Spencer and provide for our younger children with less than twenty thousand pounds; which will, as you perceive, do more than clear the estate, which, when done, in consideration of the rents of the land settled being so much fallen, Rh