| Description | Preliminary negotiations with John Sanderson were not very auspicious; there was a good deal of quibbling about terms - the amount of rent and the liability for improvements and repairs. Clough eventually agreed to take the property at an annual rent of £120, on the understanding that the Marquess should undertake all necessary repairs and alterations (2886, 2890). It was over the latter that the ensuing dispite arose; Sanderson, contending that Clough was bent on effecting certain alterations to the premises which were in excess of the estimates originally agreed upon (2904), proposed an addition of 35 to the rent by ways of interest on the additional outlay. Clough cavilled at such an increase, and was two years later, in 1830, still voicing his grievance. In a fit of pique in March 1830, he proposed giving up the tenancy (2922); Sanderson promptly took him at his word, and despite Clough's subsequent endeavours to retract, his term in Plas Llanfair was accepted as ending in July 1831 (2937). "I have not known in the course of my official life" remarks Sanderson, "any case which like this of Llanfair, has expended itseld in so many topics of disputation" (2932) |
| AdminHistory | We are to gather from these papers that the property was in 1796 let by the Earl of Uxbridge to Colonel William Peacock, who held it up to his death in 1826. Clough, who was granted a year to year tenanct in 1827, was presumably a descendant of the Denbigh family of that namel he had failed in a mercantile venture in Liverpool, but had since retrieved his fortunes by marrying a local lady of substance and was living at Gorffwysfa when Plas Llanfair fell vacant (see 2875). |