Thursday, January 14, 1836

1836

January

Thursday 14

7 3/4

11 3/4

No kiss. Dressed Ann’s back – Much better this morning – Soft, damp, small rainy morning and F 42° at 9 5/.. –

Had Sowden before breakfast was over – Gave him Pickles’s lease to read – No objection on that score – But could not give more rent – I asked £42 per annum (he pays £40) – Said it was valued as some shillings more – He gave me Samuel Washington’s valuation of his (Sowden’s) tenant-right = £20.9.0, but having 1 3/4 more under plough than customary.  Samuel Washington for this deducts £11.14.0 – Even in an arable farm, as I told him, not customary to have more than 1/2 under plough – I would not take less than I asked, so we parted good friends and he will give up the farm –

Some time with Ann – Her stays hurt her back – Undressed her – She took the whalebone out, and I re-did up her blister place –

Then note and bill from Mr. Bradley the architect = 19.0.6 paid in account £11 balance £8.0.6 asked for this or £5 in account by the bearer – Said I would send over in the afternoon –

Out – With Mallinson a little while – Then with Robert Mann – Then with Mark Hepworth at the  mill-work above Cascade Bridge (on this side) – Cordingley, he told me, was married yesterday at Huddersfield Church to a man 20 years younger than herself! – Parkin of upper Rookes Farm came in at 12 1/2 to tell the news to Ann and my aunt in bed, and Marian –

Staid talking to one or other till Mr. Jubb came at 2 and with me downstairs and with Ann and my aunt.  Staid 3/4 hour – Promised to lend me some of Dr. Holland’s works on physiology – he is opposed to Brodie and Wilson Phillip, etc., and thinks the life in the blood, not in the nerves –

Mr. Jubb said I had managed Ann’s blister very well – Approved the powdering (with hair powder) the damp part, as I did this morning 1st time – Mentioned William Green’s having worn the skin off him with lying in bed, and Marian’s prescription of a fuller’s Earth plaster – Very good – Should roast the Earth in an oven so as to drive off the water of crystallization – It would then fall into an impalpable powder and would mix with cream – Mr. Jubb did not know whether the cream would harden or not – It might form a very nice plaster –

Marian (from some old nurse) recommends white of egg well beaten up into a thick froth on a plate or trencher and then diluted with a little water to wash over and heal Ann’s blister – Mentioned this, but somehow it passed without any particular answer from Mr. Jubb –

He saw my aunt’s legs – they are healing – He said she might be a very different person by and by; and he should not be surprised if she so far recovered as to be comparatively well for a long time – The fact is, she may live for years – This lying in bed has done wonders –

Just going out again at about 3 when Booth the mason came and staid till 4 1/2 – Settled all his bill up to the end of last year – paid balance of £91.11.5.  Owe him nothing now but for two roods parpoints and the few days I have had his 2 men and a boy this month – Long talk about the Lodge etc. etc.  He has already paid above £70 for stone and labor – He will lose by the job – By agreement is to have per foot for sunk work 10d, for mouldings 1/0 – they will cost 1/4 and 1/6 – Says the mason work will cost three hundred pounds.  I must manage as well as I can.

I proposed the road wall opposite the house being merely faced with lime and parpoints, and the back of the wall done with field wall stuff (dry) – Said it would do very well – Will do it for                      throughs               2/.

                   Lime                     2/.

                   Labor                     5/.

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⸫ therefore wall 2 yards high    9.0

18 inches long (breadth varies) 2d apiece at the delf and 3d if 2 feet long will be worth 3d apiece (18 inches long) delivered here – Should put 8 throughs in a rood 7 yards long by 1 yard high –the throughs to be laid in lime – the rest dry otherwise, reckons 2/6 a rood for lime and 6/. labor = 18 per running yard, I finding stones except throughs – I hope there will be parpoints enough out of the former wall, and the rough stuff shall be the wall along the present approach road against the late paddock.

There are about 12 roods to do                    = 18 X 12             = £10.16.0

suppose 12 roods to raise 2 feet

against the Lower fish pond = 3 roods at 18/.                            = £ 7. 4  .0  lead pipe                                                                                                               from  the upper

                                                                                                   cistern and ditto from                                                                                                              the lower to the house 

                                                                                                                                50.0.0 

the Cascade bridge arching towards the Lower fish pond           20.0  .0

Rock-work and finishing up all around it                                    20.0  .0

Shifting stuff (still to be done about Lower fish pond)                20.0  .0

Little field or upper cistern to be done at 6d pence per yard        10.0  .0

Garden cottage to be built                                                          100.0  .0

Garden walling and planting at the back                                    100.0  .0

Masking wall opposite the house                                               250.0  .0

Levelling and sinking and dressing up about the house             100.0  .0

New road making thro’ through the wood 60 roods at £3           180.0  .0

Lodge and moving stuff opposite the gateway                             500.0  .0

                                                                                                    1307.4  .0 

Enough – enough

Wrote the above of today till 5 50/.. –

Raining heavily and high wind – Very rainy afternoon from between 2 and 3 p.m. –

Dressed – Dinner at 6 20/.. – Coffee – Ann and I some time with my aunt – then sent Ann to wish my father good night and I sat with my aunt and read the newspaper till 8 1/2 – Then 1/2 hour with my father and Marian –

Then 1/2 hour in the north parlour reading the first 33 pages Dr. George Calvert Holland’s Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Life, Edinburgh,1829, the work spoken of by Mr. Jubb this morning and which Frank brought with the letter bag tonight –

George wet in going to Elland and staid at home this evening – He paid Mr. Bradley and brought note of thanks back – Then with Ann till near 10.

Then till 10 40/.., entering settling Booth’s account in my Ledger account with him and wrote the last 8 lines –

Rainy, stormy, windy day and evening (except an hour or 2 fair and finish from about 11 a.m. to 2 – F 43° now at 10 40/.. p.m.

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0160 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0161