Thursday, January 7, 1836

1836

January

Thursday 7

7 55/..

11 40/..

No kiss.  Washing and little motion, twenty five minutes.  Dressed Ann.  She had her stays loosely laced on – 1st time since her blister – Ready in 1 35/.. hour – F 39 1/2° and fine morning now at 9 1/2 a.m. – Breakfast in 1/2 hour.   The indited letter for Ann to Mr. Buckle.

Ann asked my father how he did – I with him a few minutes till Horner sent back the large view of the Lake of Geneva – He had succeeded admirably taking out the black cloudiness occasioned by the damp got in the journey from Milbourne’s London (framer) here – Sent back 2 other views –

Then out in the farmyard and barn 1/4 hour – Then with Ann a few minutes.  She sent off her letter to “George Buckle, Esquire, Deputy Registrar, York, Postage Paid’ asking for copies of 6 wills and an Inquisition to be ready by Monday evening – John to call for the parcel –

At my desk at 11 and wrote the above of this morning – Had Mallinson about wood for Listerwick cabin roof at 12 –

Had had Joseph Mann just before – About ordering Baldwin to slate the cabin – And about having a few coals taken down to the tail goit – Going to work in shifts (night and day) and will be up to the Engine pit in a fortnight –

Out once or twice again for a few minutes each time – Except these little interruptions, from 11 to 2 10/.., looking over and arranging last year’s bills –

Ann had Mr. Adam.  Went down to them at 2 1/4 for about 1/4 hour then sat talking to Ann till 3 –

Then went out – Went to Whiskum Cottage.  Robert Mann +3 there all day draining – Wood at the cabin all today; finished walling it tonight –

With Mark Hepworth carting stuff (from Whiskum quarry), unloading near the present entrance gates –

Then at Listerwick cabin – Some time there and in the fields below with Joseph Mann and Pearson – Then to the Lodge –

On 1st going out at 3, had Dobson shooting down in the farmyard and load of sets – Edward and John, the 2 masons, and a boy had got the west end farmyard wall about 4 or 5 feet high, besides having finished this morning the flagging about the boilerhouse and necessary –

Mallinson and his boy all this afternoon at roof of Listerwick cabin –

Walked till it was some time after dark-dusk on the terrace, and came in at 5 20/..

Dressed and washed, and wrote the last 10 lines till 6 5/.. Dinner at 6 10/.. Coffee –

Greenwood came before 7 and paid his rent to my father – Then came to me at 7 1/4 and staid till 9 40/.. – Settled his bill – He paying me £71.1.0 for the Northgate timber (trees, chiefly sycamore, growing in the walk and in the fields) and I paid him £24.17.0, being the balance in his favor – He paid me his rent – Mr. Sudworth had offered him 10/. a yard for 200 yards of ground adjoining the chapel – Greenwood asked 20/. per (he gave 12/. per yard for the whole field together) and said he would not sell at any price except for the benefit of the Chapel – Mr. Sudworth would not give 20/. per yard, and they parted – I said if I had wanted any of that ground (frontage) of Greenwood I should have bid him 20/. to 22/. per yard – It was worth that – I would not sell for less, and would not have offered him less than I should ask for my own ground adjoining – Told him of wanting ground for a garden from the Low Conery – Perhaps I should want about 2 DW and the odd perches – I should want ground more or less from the field along the top of Trough of Bolland wood – What could I do for him in return?  Mentioned the upper Godley field – There might be a chance of my letting that off – He begged I would do just as I pleased – He would do anything to oblige me – Would either take a compensation in money or land, just which I liked best – Nobody could be more civil and obliging –

Talked of Northgate Hotel – He should be glad to see Carr have it – I said I had said nothing on the subject whether Carr should or should not have it – I would not, could not say what I should do about it – But shewed my utter carelessness about having Carr or buying Godley – Thomas Greenwood said I should let the hotel for £300 a year for the 1st 3 or 4 years, but if Carr had it, he ought to pay £400 a year from the 1st – Thomas Greenwood had wanted Hepworth to throw £40 off their estimate, but Hepworth said if £30 was thrown off, he would not join at the job – I merely said I should be very sorry if Mallinson lost by it – Nothing else said particular – But Greenwood had heard Mawson was going to leave the Stump Cross Inn and Walton had spoken to him, Thomas Greenwood, about it – Greenwood said Walton would make a very good tenant – I merely said I knew nothing about Mawson, had paid his rent, and said nothing to me about leaving –

Wrote the last 23 lines till 10 10/.., at which hour F 38° and fine night – Fine day – 5 minutes with my aunt till 10 1/4 p.m. --

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0157