Tuesday, December 22, 1835

1835

December

Tuesday 22

8 10/..

11 25/..

No kiss.

Ready in 50 minutes.   Better this morning – Fine though rather hazy, frosty morning; F 33° at 9, at which hour, breakfast –

Read a few minutes last Quarterly – Mr. Washington came – With him a few minutes.  Sowden thought all was settled – Wants to look at a lease before signing it – Very well – Referred him to Mr. Parker – My own mind made up – He must be on lease like the other tenants or give up the farm – Told Mr. Washington to take a list of fixtures at Whiskum Cottage –

Out – with Joseph Mann some time at the tail goit – Went and returned along the walk – Sauntered there and loitered, pulling grass from around hollies – The bark gnawed by mice –

Home about 12 – Mr. Jubb here – My aunt sleepy and better, and would excuse seeing Mr. Jubb this morning – a good sign –

All the servants going on well, but Sharpe the worst – To have a blister at the back of her neck – John got out of the saddle room this morning, back into his pantry –

Some while with Ann.  Mr. S.W.- had told her Mr. George Armytage had determined to sell his place, Home house, and 32 DW of land – S.W. had before said £4000 for it, but now allowed Mr. Armytage would want more than that – I say he will want £5000 at least – Calculate that it will pay Ann about 2 per cent.  She gave Washington orders to take steps for the purchase – Right enough –

Then out with Robert Mann, who was just finishing his dinner – Levelling farm yard under the back  stable.  Asked if I should have any objection to their working on Christmas Day – if the men did not work they would drink – Agreed with Robert, better work than drink – Should not like their working immediately about the house, but would send them to fill up Adney bridge –

Came in at 1 10/.. and wrote the above of today – Then set the Barraclough cottage accounts  till 250/.. – Ann off to Cliff hill before 2 –

Out again at 2 50/.. – Out till 4 1/2, then had Mark Town –

Mr. Musgrave called between 2 and 3 and went up to my aunt for about 10 minutes or 1/4 hour – Just spoke to him on the stairs – Meant to have seen him on his going away; but, though I was in the farmyard, I missed him –

Out from 2 50/.. to 4 1/2 in the farm yard, at the Lower fish pond and at the Lodge – Nobody there –

Had Mark Town till after 5 – The bills he has brought me amount to £94.11.9 1/2 + £7.15.4 Sundry expenses and his own and his sons’ labor £13.12.0.  Total £115.19.1 1/2, which I have paid him by check 7th and ditto 22nd instante mense £50.11.1 1/2 + £65.8.0.  There is still to pay Greenwood’s wood bill, £34.15.1 1/2 + to pay to myself for windows from Northgate valued at £2.9.1 and the end cottage is still to do up, and water to be brought into the house that this Barraclough purchase will have cost me

115.19.1 1/2                  Suppose £25 more        

   34.15.1 1/2                 to be laid out there         

     2.  9.1                                 234.3.4 

153.  3. 4                                 25.0.0

Purchase      76.   0. 0                                 259.3.4

Deeds          . . 5.  0. 0   

                   234.  3. 4 

Some while at my desk after Mark went away –

Dressed while Ann was with my aunt – Dinner at 6 – Coffee – Ann 10 minutes and I 1/2 hour with my father and Marian – With my aunt from 9 to 10 –  Skimmed over the paper and just looked over the Almanach de Gotha come tonight, together with the court calendar from Whitley’s – Wrote all but the 1st 19 lines of today till 10 10/.., at which hour F 33°.  Fine frosty day and night, but dark night –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0148