Wednesday, January 6, 1836

1836

January

Wednesday 6

7 50/..

12 25/..

No kiss. Washing.

Ready in 1 1/4 hour – Fine, but rather hazy morning and F 42 12° at 9 5/..

Out in the farmyard – Edward Waddington and John Sharpe, the masons, come to finish flagging about farmyard boilerhouse and necessary – Robert Mann and company lowering road down to the glen bridge –

Breakfast in 1/2 hour at 9 1/4 – Ann breakfasted upstairs, her blister place still too sore to bear her stays –

10 minutes at my aunt’s bedside – Better this morning and cheerful, though had had a restless night – Sent for me to beg I would have John to walk back with me from the rent audit at the Stag’s head – So many bad people about, afraid of my being attacked – Reassured my poor aunt – Said I should be back before 3 perhaps before 2 p.m. –

Then Marian called me in to her to advise with me about Jane – Mr. Robinson very unwell – cannot spare his manservant, Jane’s brother, to come for her – I said Jane was well enough to go to York by herself in the coach, a lodging or house to go to being ready for her, and she has a friend to go to for a few days – Then long talk about Market Weighton affairs etc., neither Mr. Marshall the future steward solicited for by Mr. Robinson, nor Mr. Edwards, the overlooker, fit to be trusted with money !

Came upstairs at 11 – Ann uncomfortable – Looked at and redressed her blister, and she went down to Mr. Washington, and I wrote the above of today till 11 1/2 – Washed etc.

At Mytholm at the Stag’s head at 12 10/.. Ten minutes too late, so paid the forfeit 5/. – Home at 2 10/.. – From then to 4, pothering over my father’s account – Found it wrong by £2 too little – Recollected that in giving Charles Howarth the 2 sovereigns out of my own pocket, I had given it to himself and he had taken it off instead of giving it me back for my father – so that the £2 I gave him and £2 I have been obliged to give to make up my father’s account makes me -£4 – Said not a word of this.  Took the money down to my father at 4, and staid talking to my father and Marian till after 6 –

Dinner at 6 1/4 – Marian came to us for a few minutes – Did not like Jane’s going to York alone – Thought of going herself with her – Offered to let John the footman go – Marian much obliged and pleased – Coffee –

Sat talking with Ann upstairs till 9 10/.. About building a new mill – About the school – and new publichouse near Hipperholme Lane ends – The present Landlady of the Travellers Inn had been to see Ann this morning and asked her if she did not mean to build – She will come again in a fortnight for Ann’s answer – Ann says the name of the Bouldshaw Clough tenant is Sawood – I just said the Engine coal there was worth £150 per acre,. of which Ann seemed very incredulous –

I settled with Mr. Freeman this morning and gave him £10 for his trouble in opening the quarry – He said it was too much – I said I had great pleasure in giving it him for he had saved me more than £50 worth of trouble – He took the money – Seemed very much pleased, and said he must do something for me another time – Asked him to come and advise me about making my new approach road – He is all against lagging – Said he tried it in the road to his own house but never rested till he had pulled it all up again – Best way to make a good hard is with boulder –

Aquilla Green asked if I thought of letting the Mytholm Ing – Yes! But not till I had got possession of the Shibden land now occupied by Mr. Carr, and then I should think about letting the Mytholm – Thought of letting the Croft off in gardens to the cottages – Aquilla Green would like to take all the cottages and house too in the lump if we could agree – Said very well, then, I would not let them without first seeing him – I had 2 objects in view, to convenience the mill and not inconvenience the farm (i.e. Aquilla Green’s) –

Had Sowden – He did not know but all was settled for us to go on as before – Explained the valuing on and off, and the lease, etc. but told him to come some morning and he should see a lease – Said he must pay £42 instead of £40 per annum – If any little repairs wanted doing, I would do them on his re-entering – He should have all the advantages of being a new tenant –

Pickles was not there nor Carr nor Thomas Greenwood – the 2 latter never come – Therefore Pickles the only defaulter – Gave Mr. Samuel Washington the paper he sent me by his wife (I suppose for I saw her coming this waywards though not to speak) a sort of change for stuff removing, to be inquired into –

Wrote the last 5 lines of the last page and so far of this till 9 40/.. and then went to my aunt –

Fine day – F 40° now at 10 50/..

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0156 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0157