| Description | All these points expressed in a cogent memorial and signed by four of Lord Boston's lessees (he being the owner of Irby Place), January 30, 1866 (LLIG/344). There follows a very long letter to Lord Boston from his Bangor solicitors (LLIG/345), carefully going over the gravamina of the memorial, admitting and emphasising most of them, but casting cold water on the business argument, as the very nature of their situation precluded any such enterprise (the solicitors say not a word about the charge regarding the sometime brewery, and unfortunately somebody had written "not so" in a contemporary hand on the margin of the memorial itself). It was a thorny business, as the Company denied liability, and even asserted that the poor drainage was caused by "filling up a piece of ground" which Lord Boston and the Hon. W. O. Stanley had purchased from the Crown and which ground had previously afforded an outlet for the water. When this group of papers comes to an end, nothing effective had been done (9 November, 1866). Ten papers, including a plan (LLIG/351) of the Crown land, in all probability, that was the subject of the Boston-Stanley transaction of 1851
Including a plan |