Friday, January 8, 1836

1836

January

Friday 8

8 2/4

11 40/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour, having dressed Ann as yesterday – her blister place doing well, but still too tender to bear her stays lacing tight – Fine morning, F 37 1/2° now at 10 a.m., at which hour, breakfast in 1/2 hour –

Then spoke to John Clarke – Said he might sit in the upper kitchen in an evening – then Marian called me in, to speak about Jane and the servants department – Wants George to go to York with Jane instead of John – Advised a cook-house keeper and good housemaid to return with Jane, the latter to be dubbed Miss Marian’s maid at once – Marian kept me till 11 1/2 – She seems quite satisfied –

Then with Ann till 12 – Rather poorly this morning – My aunt too had a bad night – Ann’s not sleeping well prevented my sleeping well –

Out from 12 to 5 1/4 – in the farmyard at Listerwick cabin – at the tail goit, and twice at the Lodge – and at Whiskum quarry and with Mark emptying the carts with stuff from the Whiskum quarry to make the hill on the upper side the Cascade Bridge towards the house – Mallinson and his boy all the day putting spars on Listerwick cabin, and 2 sawyers cutting the spars etc. out of larch –

Saw George Naylor at the cabin bringing slate for the roof – Baldwin to do it at 3d a yard for labor and 3d for laths and nails – George Naylor complained that William Hardcastle had accused him at the Rent day after dinner of keeping a wh— [whore] in his house – G.N. could not sleep for thinking of it, and his housekeeper, a very respectable girl, had cried all night about it – If this was to happen again, G. N. would pay his rent here – Very hard and unjust to say such a thing of him – I advised him to ask Mr. Parker how to make Hardcastle beg public pardon – with which George Naylor well pleased, and said I would see into the thing and see justice done to G.N. – He said Mr. Freeman had only paid him about 2 months ago for carting flag to the north cut from upper Place quarry – Should have paid him £50 and only paid £46 – G.N. could never get him to say what he would give – Should have given 4 1/2d per yard – would only give 3d per yard, the same price he gave for carting a considerably less distance – G.N. did not consider himself paid – This was not just and Wornersley said so too – Explained that I had nothing to do with it – He had been carting for Mr. Samuel Freeman, not for me, S.F. having bought the flags of me at the delf –

1 mason and a lad all the day and Edward Waddington, poorly in the morning came in the afternoon – Set dunghill and cowhouse doorgrates and got farmyard west wall up to within about 3 feet of its height – Robert Mann and Wood + 2 preparing for setting farm yard finished cowhouse drain etc.

Had Robert and Joseph Mann on my coming in at 5 1/4 – Till 6 before I had settled with and paid them – Joseph had so many bills –

Dressed – Dinner at 6 1/4 – Ann rather poorly and came upstairs – I was 1/2 hour with my father and Marian, then coffee with Ann upstairs –

Letter from Mr. Illingworth, York, on same sheet with letter from Mr. Hutchinson, schoolmaster to be recommended by Mr. Beilby Thompson of Escrick, very likely to suit –

Note from the Halifax Philosophical Society to say the museum would be closed (in consequence of moving to the new building) – and Letter from Lady Vere Cameron – 3 pages and ends and under the seal – Kind letter – All well – Wants me to go and see them at Brafield house –

Mr. Musgrave called on my aunt this afternoon, but I was a minute or 2 too late to see him – wrote all but the first 7 lines of today till 9 55/.. then 1/4 hour with my aunt – Fine day from about 2 p.m., so foggy and thick one could scarce see a dozen yards before one – F 39° and fine night now at 10 1/2 p.m.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0158