Bacon for the Poor 1832

Letter from William Andrews to Richard Temple, 18 March 1832. HEH STG Correspondence Box 68 (07). Full transcript.

Buckingham March 18^th 1832

My Lord Duke

Agreeably to your wishes, I have distributed to the under-mentioned Parishes the Bacon, and in return have been charged to convey to your Grace the sincere and grateful thanks of their poor inhabitants for so accepting a present. Owing to the increase and more account of, the population since last year, I have exceeded by a few pounds, as will appear on the other side, the quantity given away before, but as by so doing, I have been enabled to give general satisfaction to the poor. I trust your Grace will not disapprove of the exertion. The Bacon I am happy to add, has proved of excellent quality and even superior to last years.

I have the Honor to be
My Lord Duke
very faithfully yours

W^m Andrews

430 Families

1658 Persons supplied

1747 lbs of Bacon being 15 Cwt 67 lbs.

Aid for Lace Workers

HEH STG Correspondence Box 68 (35). Extract of letter from S. Bosanquet at the City of London Tavern to Richard Temple at Stowe and copy of reply. 15 August 1816. 

[Letter from Bosanquet]

The Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor are apprised of the peculiar distress under which some of the Manufacturers in the county of which your Lordship is Lord Lieutenant (more especially those employed in the manufacture of lace) […] The Committee, therefore, will immediately place the sum of £300 at your Lordship’s disposal.

[Reply from Temple]

I am honoured […] are prepared to lodge £3 in my hands for their relief. […] I must, from a sense of my official duty, decline taking any step as Lieutenant of the County of Bucks […]

Individually I may be allowed to express my opinion, that in this County, no distress exists which does no equally press upon every class of people resident within it, arising from causes well beyond the reach of any Association […]