Thursday, February 21, 1833
1833
February
Thursday 21
7
50/..
12
5/60
Finish,
soft morning. F 48° at 7 50/.. inside and 41° at 8 55/.. outside, at which hour
went downstairs to John Bottomley for a few minutes –
The colliers cannot get as much coal as will pay their wages and are filling up the pit at Brierley or Willy hill – Pulling up the shed etc. (John Bottomley thinks the stones worth 40/. and would like me to buy them for a cart shed) and mean to pull up the road because John made it up good with the stones that came out of the pit road thro’ his field – Said I would go there in an hour or 2 – Then breakfast alone at 9 5/.. – My father came as I had finished – Would let off two fields to John B- – I said I dared say Carr would take the whole of the upper land if Pearson and the rest would not give rent enough – My father said then he might have the low land, too, this said in such a manner I really thought my father meant it – But by and by he said he would go and live at Halifax.
Marian
then came – I mentioned my father’s living at Halifax, and Marian said she knew
it was so – I should (or ought) let him alone – On this, I said I would have
nothing more to do with it, and told my father I would not oblige him to
go to live at Halifax from any doing of mine – I should get away myself instead
– He asked where – To Paris, said I, in the 1st instance, and then and there I
shall consider where to go next – My father said he thought I had better come back
again – Not much more passed –
Just
saw my aunt in passing, and at 10 1/4 off to John B-’s. Found 7 or 8 men assembled at the pit – the 2
colliers and banksmen there – Not much had been thrown into the pit – Walsh had
sent a man to stop them – Said I thought they were in a hurry with filling up –
But when they settled it among themselves, I should leave John B- to buy the
stones of them, if he could at a fair reasonable rate – As for pulling up
the road which they talked of doing, they had no right to do that, and I should
summons them (have them up before a magistrate) if they attempted the thing – I
thought it but right to tell them so beforehand, or some of them might be getting
a journey to Wakefield (house of correction) about it – Better be good friends
if we could –
Then down the old bank to Mr. Parker’s office – saw Mr. Adam – Mr. P- had written to Mr. Rawson – Mr. Jeremiah had been at the office last night – Wanted to be allowed to cross the Wakefield road -- Objected to the penalty of £500 against throwing more water this way than would naturally of its own run this way, and objected to giving me the power to go into the upper bed works – Told Mr. Adam to write to Mr. Rawson immediately and say that the agreement was as I intended it should be, and that if he declined signing it, the business would be at end between us – That I must have his answer tomorrow night – To be at Mr. Parker’s for my father’s servant to bring back when he went to the post –
Returned
up the old bank and home at 11 10/.. – Wrote the above of today and went out again
at 11 1/2 for 1/2 hour to Trough of Bolland wood – The sycamore tree (Dick
enlarging the hole all the morning) got in and Dick making it up --
With
my aunt, told her the occurrences of the morning and came to my room at 12
35/.. –
From
12 1/2 to 1 3/4, studying over the 1st plate or 2 of De la Beche’s Geological
Sections –
Out
with John at 1 3/4 – at the bottom of James Smith’s upper brow preparing trench
for carrying the thorn hedge along the slope in a straight line up to the new footpath
– Meaning to thin the present young hedge in order to lengthen it out – Took 18
plants and planted hedge to fence off my upper Wellroyde wood from the bit of
slope belonging to upper brea –
Then went to Pickels after 5 – Some time with him vide bottom of p. 27 Washington’s estate of far Bairstow new road – Pickels can get the stones broken at 2/. a rood, and will do the whole at 10/. or 11/. a rood – or at any rate 12/., but this we did not determine – Told him to look at the bridge over the brook near Pearson’s and tell me the expense of moving it to the new road in Trough of Bolland wood --
Home
at 6 1/4 – Dinner at 6 3/4 – Before and after (2 or 3 little naps after), read
first 31 pages, De la Beche’s Geology that I read over at Hastings – Went
into the little room at 9 3/4 and upstairs at 10 40/.. – Finish, mildish,
dampish sort of day – F 47° now at 10 3/4 p.m.
John
Pickels and Dick began this evening trenching the bit taken from Carr’s field to the wood – Read
to page 40, De la Beche – Sat up looking over Monteith’s forester’s guide –
WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/16/0020
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