Enclosure letter From Mr Fr Burton to Revd Dr Jenner 7 June 1758

Revd Sir

We have had our first meeting at Helmdon & have settled several preliminary articles without the least wrangling or contention; The Commissioners are all very agreeable to me , and indeed are such as I not only would but most of them I did recommend. Mr Lely favoured us with his Company and will I dare say, inform you that we proceeded with the greatest unanimity. One thing happened that shows the little ..?… ..?…. is in Terriers as generally delivered in to Colleges. I asked Mrs Jackson_s tenant several questions relating to the estate held of you and found there is a land wanting in the field. I told him the land was not only mentioned in ancient but in ye last Terriers & that it was remarkable they agreed in every article so that I did not expect to have heard of any mistake in ye College Estate. The man very sensibly observed that the agreement between the old and new terriers was very easily accounted for, in as much as the constant method of delivering a terrier to ye College was to write a copy of ye last, without varying a Syllable, and without ever going into the field or looking upon any one Article. That this particular Land, tho constantly inserted in ye Terrier, he never had enjoyed; & that neither he nor he believed any man in Helmdon knew where to find it by the description in the Terrier. I don’t imagine, by ye place it lies in, that it is of much value, But however I will do all I can to recover that, and every other Article of ye College Property, & shall not fail to acquaint ye Society with every thing of consequence that may happen at our meetings. I have sent my little Boy to Oxford, but he is far from being well. The complaint is considerably abated but not removed. There was one very remarkable Circumstance in his Disorder. These insects that he is troubled with actually occasioned a Deafness, that came on so fast we were not without apprehensions that he might quite lose his Hearing. I thank God the method we have taken has made Havock amongst them; and his Deafness (tho not removed) is much abated. I am