Clipston Parck [Park]
February the 1 1714/15

May it ples [please] your Lordship Mr Banks has bin [been] at Clipston Parck [Park] by your Lordships orders and my Lady Harley to Demand pousoson [possession] and he ordered me to acquaint her grace that he had bin [been] here and a Corden Ly [accordingly] i Did and her Grace ordered me that if thay [they] broht [brought] any in of acckmant [acknowledgment] to me that i shuld [should] bring it to her grace and a Cordinly [accordingly] i did

May it ples [please] your Lordship i have bin [been] with her Grace severall [several] times to gite [get] some fence wood for the parck [park] fence and some hay for the Dere [deer] but her grace will not Grant any and i fach [fetch] home a Grat [great] many Dead Dere [deer] that Dys [dies] for povety [poverty] i had a very fine hand of staggs [stags] and a very fine hand of Bucks and with out a speedy remedy thay [they] will all be lost and since her grace came a way we have had a very Grate [great] harakan [hurricane] by a Double [_] wind and it has blew Down a bove 4 mils [miles] of the parck [park] fence flat to Ground and wee [we] are in [_] to Lous [loose] all the dere [deer] for want of hay to keep them att [at] the fendrin [feeding] plases [places] in the parck [park] for thay [they] Run all about the Contery [country] and the Contery [country] pepell [people] will kill them. i humbley [humbly] bege [beg] your Lordship orders what [_] Lordship will have me Dere [deer] the dog knel's [kennel's] blown Down and all the out house is blew fore [fall] to peses [pieces].

her grace has lefte [left] the houns [hounds] with me and her Grace has Given me a porticklen [particular] orders to tack [take] grate [great] care of the houns [hounds] but her grace has paid no money this 3 yeres [years] but woht [what] i have had of your Lordship and woht [what] to done with them i cant tell [...]

Charles Palmer