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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D239/M/E/12584-12607
Title	Correspondence to and from Lord St. Helens as a trustee of William Philp Perrin
Date	1808-1819
Description	including:- - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: "my neighbour and very old friend Mr. Perrin ... has relapsed into the low melancholy state in which he has so often been"; will visit Perrin shortly, and has advised that Perrin's old attendant, Jones, should be sent for. 31 October (D239/M/E/12584) 1808 - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: has now sent for Jones: Mr. Perrin is very desirous of staying with his cousin, Bunnett, 2 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12585) - St. Helens to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, enclosing D239/M/E/12584 from Sir Lucas Pepys. 7 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12586) - St. Helens to Sir Henry FitzHerbert: wonders if Mr. Perrin's derangement has been brought on by "the deplorable state of his pecuniary affairs"; hopes that matters may be put right soon. 14 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12587) - Sir Lucas Pepys to Lord St. Helens: as Jones must return to Wales in a fortnight, arrangments must be made for Mr. Perrin, especially as he has tried to commit suicide - "there is reason to suppose that he did not fall into the water accidentally but intentionally about a fortnight ago". 14 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12588) - St. Helens to Sir Henry FitzHerbert: tentative agreement has been reached to establish a trust to administer Mr. Perrin's estate, this being preferable to an application to the court of Chancery; Mr. Jones (solicitor) is preparing the necessary power of attorney. 15 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12589) - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: the power of attorney has been signed; encloses D239/M/E/12588; Perrin's fall in the water "happened almost in the sight of Mr. Bunnett and of a servant who had been ordered to attend him for the very purpose of preventing ... such mischief". 18 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12590) 1808-19 - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: reports on first meeting of trustees. 23 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12591) - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: hears Mr. Perrin is much improved. 28 November 1808 (D239/M/E/12592) - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: gathers that there is little or no likelihood that Sir Henry will be nominated sheriff for Derbyshire this year; reports on a meeting with Mr. Bunnett. 8 December 1808 (D239/M/E/12593) - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: has prevailed upon Mr. Davidson to discharge the mortgage of £10,000 on Mr. Perrin's estates due to Lord Cholmondeley; he will have enough in hand, especially with the price of sugar at 111s. per cwt, or more than £40 a hogstead nett; the trustees have sold 40 hogsteads at this rate, and have another 119 to sell; "our total importation of this year was 663 hogsteads, being to be sure considerably short of the usual average"; comments on Kent and Surrey affairs. 25 December 1813 (D239/M/E/12595) - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: comments on Mr. Perrin's intention to make Mr. and Mrs. Bunnett a life annuity of £800; Mr. Perrin's servant, Jones, has quit his service, "which I was at first inclined to lament; but have changed my opinion since this morning when I had a visit from him and was bored to death with his endless string of grievances ... with all which I am quite certain from what he said that he said that he must have been continually harassing Mr. Perrin; and I think therefore that we have great reason to rejoice in being fairly rid of him. 11 October [1813 or 1814]. (D239/M/E/12596) - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: comments at length on the West Indian accounts, particularly the vast sum of £10,800 in bills drawn by Jacques & Laing, the Jamaican attornies. 16 October [1813]. (D239/M/E/12597) - L. Pepys to Lord St. Helens: on the consequences of hurricane damage on Jamaica 1814-15 (D239/M/E/12600-601)
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Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	FitzHerbert family of Tissington

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