Monday, January 26, 1835
1835
January
Monday
26
8
11
1/2
Cousin came
gently. No kiss.
Fine
morning – Mild – Out a few minutes – Then with my father and Marian – F 48° at
10 3/4 – Breakfast at 9 20/.. Marian came to us – Staid talking – till 10 3/4,
at which time Ann and I came upstairs –
Then
went down to Marian for a minute or 2 and Mr. Jubb came before 11 – Explained
that my aunt could not take opiates etc., then shewed him in to my aunt –
Had
1st visit – Gentle, and conducted himself well enough – Recommends putting
a tablespoonful of chloride of lime into the warm water, or bran water, or
gruel that my aunt put her feet and legs into at night – It would cleanse the
wound and take care of the smell – Well my aunt did not hear the latter part of
the sentence –
Liked
him very well – Saw him again for a minute or 2 in the drawing room – He
says, the wound has got a tendency to spread, but it is astonishing how
long people may live under these circumstances –
Had Hinscliffe from 11 1/4 to 3 5/.. – Nothing settled with the Spiggs Colliery Company – The Loose is secured to the Keighleys by their purchase deeds; so they don’t care – Hinscliffe for my stopping the Loose – Said I had seen John Oates – Explained about the deed securing the Loose through Wilkinson’s field -- And said I had mentioned the business about this deed to James Holt on Saturday, who would see William Keighley that night, and say I was willing to buy their share of the Loose under Wilkinson –
Hinscliffe
he had thought of this and was going to propose it – Very well, said I,
I told John Oates, and do you tell their son to set a price upon their two
shares amounting, I suppose, to 1/2 of the whole –
Said
this business would lead me to wait a little before stopping up the Loose – and
that I thought of proposing that the Spiggs Company should let me send a person
into the works to see how much Spiggs coal they really had to get – Hinscliffe
thinks they have ten acres to get –
Then
turned the subject to Walker pit – Hinscliffe still thinks I can bottom it, in
spite of stopping Spiggs – Told him John Oates said it was on the lower
level – Then brought the coal plan down – If 20 yards on this side of
the waterhead hold, Hinscliffe thinks it will be on the upper level, and
that John Oates is wrong –
We
shall have to drive along the face of the coal along the old
works till we get to the whole coal in Whiskum field (number 152) a length apparently of 180 yards, which if
the works are not very much fallen in (since measured 1 April 1831), may be
driven in about a month – Then should be about an acre of coal loose
– (Mann said on Saturday about 1 DW.)
Hinscliffe
said he had seen Rawson’s steward, who had told him (this a great secret – at
least I am not to name it) that they were getting the waste, but should have
done it all long before I could get at them and would then dam up the water
against the face of my coal so that I could tell nothing –
Hinscliffe
said they told him they would not meddle with my coal, but said he thought that
if they did trespass, it would be in the broad part of the waste into
Hughgrave field, and that if they did this and dammed the water up against
me, there I could not easily find the trespass out – I could not get at it
unless I loosed myself from below and drove up and let the clean off – I said
this I should probably do – But it was his, Hinscliffe’s, interest as well as
mine to bottom Walker Pit and see what had been done in Whiskum field and the
end of John Bottomley’s Long field and the far end of the Far Bairstow –
But,
said I, I know the plan, they will throw the
trespass on you – I enlarged on this till I saw that it made some impression
– This, said I, is what I do not want – I care not about you and your
trespass – It is Rawson’s I want to prove –
He
owned that if he (Hinscliffe and Company) had trespassed, it could only
be at the end of the Far Bairstow – and was sure he could prove what coal he
had got, so that Rawson could not fasten any trespass on him that Rawson
had himself committed – Well! said I, there will probably be swearing enough,
and you must be prepared –
Hinscliffe
thought if Rawson died or made over the
colliery by deed of gift I should lose all claim for damages. Said I did
not see that – I could surely come upon the estate or colliery in whatever
hands it might be –
Poor
Hinscliffe! Perhaps he begins to think there is no knowing whom to trust – The
impression is strong on my mind, that he has hitherto been on the lookout
to help Rawson and wished to stop Spiggs, and that I might not bottom Walker Pit
for fear of the consequences to himself, Hinscliffe.
Ann
came for me to see Mr. Parker (and Hinscliffe went away at 3 5/..), who had at last got the
administration money from Mrs. Clarke paid by Messers Rawson at Ann’s moiety =
£1187.10.0 – no interest allowed.
Advised
Ann to take the money and say nothing – She agreed before Mr. Parker to let me
have the whole at 4 per cent, a note of hand from me to her to be made out by
him for £1000 at 4 per cent and the rest to be settled between ourselves –
Mr. Parker went at 3 1/4 – said Spring guns and mantraps not lawful to be set in grounds – Ann and I out at 3 1/2 – Walked round by the top of the hill and Godley gulph to Staups – The front wall in part fallen down in consequence of widening the road beneath – Home by Lower brea and the walk, and took some turns in the garden and came in at 5 –
Then
out above 1/2 hour at Walker Pit – Pickles not there but had set out the new
road –
Met
Joseph Mann coming from there sharpening tools and walked back with him to the
drift – Said I had seen Hinscliffe – He persisted I could stop Spiggs and still
bottom Walker Pit – Joseph Mann said I could not – Well! said I, I shall
probably sink another pit, and have been thinking not to sink gin or make
a new road till I begin the other pit – Joseph Mann said that would be the
best plan, and I think I shall follow it –
Came
in at 5 50/.. – Prepared linen for
cousin ready for bedtime.
Dinner
at 6 1/4 – Coffee – Won a gammon, lost a hit, and then lost a back-gammon to Ann
– Got into a passion and would not play it out – Ann would have me play it out,
and at last I did –
1/2
hour with my father and Marian –
Mr.
Denton (Mr. Sunderland’s apprentice) called on Ann for her dispensary vote
for Mr. Lister about eight – She said she had promised it to him – Mr. Sunderland’s
family anxious for him to succeed – He is the next surgeon in the town to Mr.
Jubb –
Came
upstairs at 8 1/4 and wrote all the above of today in about an hour – Then talking
to Ann – 20 minutes with my aunt till 19 5/.. –
Fine,
mild day – F 48° now at 10 35/.. p.m. --
WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/17/0154 and SH:7/ML/E/17/0155
Comments
Post a Comment