Thu 30 Sep 1830
From Mr P Richards (8 Wellington Street, London)
To John R Denyer
Brimscombe Port
Please to write to Rev B Mackey and Mr Henry Howell to assure them their claim too unimportant in nature to render a recourse to court of law as the feeling of our Committee on such occasions to grant any reasonable accommodation to the landed proprietors in the neighbourhood of the canal. I think it quite superfluous to make any enquiries as to the legal rights … I will without waiting for a meeting of the Committee authorize you to make the necessary fences as soon as convenient. It is always more consistent with my feelings at once to yield small and unimportant points than to keep up unnecessary objects of contest & jealousy.
