| Description | Letter(? draft) addressed to "brother", defending himself against complaints of ill-treatment over inheritance, mother's estate etc : writer explains that he married a second time to acquire a fortune to pay his debts, and that he has supplemented his mother's dower and his sisters' portions; mother said "she had geven more before to her other daughters than she had done to her daughter Anne"; wishes to retain advowson of Oswaldkirk in case Iiving may be wanted by son or son·- in-law; brother must abandon hopes of inheriting estate now the writer has children |