Bold and Blooded by Andrew Wareham

Author:Andrew Wareham [Wareham, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Electronic Book Company
Published: 2018-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

The brothers walked down the hill to Farmer Beeston next morning and placed the agreed sum of fourteen pounds in his hands. In return, he passed over an ancient deed relating specifically to the quarry and watched as they wrote out a bill of sale and signed it. He was not literate and took them along to the squire’s estate office and showed the writings to the agent there.

“You are to sell the old, ill-fated quarry, Farmer Beeston, for the sum of fourteen pounds. Have you received that money?”

Beeston had brought the coins with him, counted them out on the desk.

“Quite right. Now, let us see the Bill of Sale.”

The agent read the short document and countersigned it at the bottom.

“That is my word that the sale is good. Might I just examine the old deed?”

The agent compared the drawing to his own map of the whole parish.

“Three acres as measured between the posts that mark the Slaters’ land and the road and the boundary to the Easton estate. There is no marking on the hillside looking down to the river to the north and you must agree the line of a fence there. I shall be willing to walk across with you and set out the posts, if you wish.”

It was all very informal and done with by the end of the day, the people of the village all working together.

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