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1/9 each letter has been a weighty motive for them to withhold at this time. They are well and send their best respects and love to you."

They were very helpful to Thomas Hassall, when he was in England, acting as a financial go-between between him and his father who relayed money to Thomas Hassall through Thomas Hancox. In 1919 Thomas Hassall wrote to his parents saying
"I cannot express the kindness of Mr and Mrs Hancox since my arrival every month has brought round fresh instances of their love. I am sure my dear Mother will be rejoiced to hear that her son finds a second tender and affectionate parent in Mrs Hancox."

From at least 1817 when wool was sent by the Hassalls to England on the Lord Melville, Thomas Hancox acted as agent for the Hassall family interests in England particularly for the sale of their wool which was consigned generally to woolbrokers Messr's Thompson of Rawdon, Leeds although in 1820 some dissatisfaction was expressed by Thomas Hancox that Thompson and Co. took delays in drawing their bills. In 1819 Thomas Hancox wrote that he was disappointed with the price they had been able to get for the wool.

In 1822 a considerable amount of wool was sent by members of the family on the Royal George to Thompson & Co and Thomas Hassall asked for payment to be made in money and merchandise which they would want shipped to them. Another 11 bales of wool were sent to Messrs Thompson on the Shipley. Early in 1822 Thomas Hassall sent money to a Mr Stokes in London for payment to Thompson & Co and also to pay Thomas Hancox for the purchas for him of "a Suit of Black say a Coat Waistcoat and trousers and if any balance remains over and above lay it out in good and useful books..." Clearly Thomas Hassall was equipping himself for his role as parson. In June 1824 Thomas Hassall wrote to Thompson & Co. to introduce his brother-in-law, Reverend Walter Lawry, and to ask them to advance Lawry £50 from his mother's account and £50 on his own account so that Lawry could buy some pure merino sheep for the Hassall farms.

A point of contention between Thomas Hassall and Thomas Hancox arose when the latter complained about a John Smith who had ordered from his a number of goods which had been sent out and for which he had not receives the payment altough Smith had told him it had been sent. This matter remained a point of contention for years as Hancox demanded that Thomas Hassall should institute proceedings against Smith which Hassall declined to out of respect for Mrs Smith who with her children would be left destitute because all they owned was a little furniture and 500 acres which would not be worth as much as Hancox seemed to imagine. Things were settled finally in 1828 when John Smith began to pay his debt.