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when a 21 year old was making grown men act actually insane .... 

[anne-lister-adventures]

Friday, 10 May 1839

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Before dressing wrote note to Mr. Waterhouse – Cold East wind as yesterday Fahrenheit 46º inside and 44º outside at 8 3/4 a.m. and breakfast having sent down my note for George to take to ‘John Waterhouse Esquire Well-Head’ purporting that if it suited his convenience and his own views of those of the rest of the Committee, I should be happy to see him on the subject of the temporary cavalry barracks at anytime he might appoint today, tomorrow, or Monday – 

Breakfast over about 9 1/4 Isaac Hemingway having waited a few minutes – A-[Ann] sent for him to say she had heard from Captain and Mrs. Sutherland and he, I.[Isaac] H-[Hemingway], and his father John H-[Hemingway] were to have the stone at 10d. per ft.[foot] – 

Same terms of lease as Bentley of which I read aloud to him the material parts – Average thickness of bed to be taken at 6 ft.[feet] at 10d. = 5/- per yard superior – Rent to commence from 1 July next, and 1st payment to be due 1 January next – 400 yards at 5/- to be paid for per annum – Got or not – And if more got, more paid for – If the bed thinner, to be allowed for – If thicker paid for after the additional rate of 10d. per foot – 

I fancied S.[Samuel] W.[Washington] would not take any notice of any additional thickness that was much under a foot – No! Hemingway thought anything under 6 in.[inches] should not be thought of – But I distinctly said A-[Ann] and I could say nothing on this subject – There would be the lease to go by, and Mr. S.[Samuel] W.[Washington] would do what was right – 

A-[Ann] and I would probably go to Landymere on Monday or Tuesday and take Booth with us to see the 400 yards square plot (term 4 years – To be paid for in 3 years) staked out – 

It might be a few minutes past 10 when A-[Ann] and I went into the North room to Holt whom we had sent for very early this morning about the Rookes coal-loose – No restrictions necessary – Mr. Whiteley could loose no coal but 4 or 5 (H-[Holt] said 5 or 6 before) acres of his own except what belonged to Captain and Mrs. S-[Sutherland] and that H-[Holt] said before would have to be loosed by an engine – 

The coal lies differently there from here – Rises towards the East – But still on shewing H-[Holt] the plan he seemed to shew the general dip as from West to East – There is a throw-down that prevents W-[Whiteley] getting any more than 4 to 6 acres except what belongs to the S-s[Sutherlands] which H-[Holt] repeated (as he said before) should be let at £150 per acre to W-[Whiteley] if he applied  for it – The S-s[Sutherlands] should have a power to send down their agents to inspect W-s[Whiteley’s] works whenever they (the S-s[Sutherlands]) thought fit – 

H-[Holt] would let W-[Whiteley] have the loose for as long as he wanted it – could get about an acre in a year – The loose is an old level that has been driven which W-[Whiteley] ought to have the power of cleaning out – Suppose limited to get the coal under such and such ground – Hemmed in by the S-s[Sutherlands] – And the ground on the upper side, Priestley Green &c. not belonging to the S-s[Sutherlands], has no coal – It breaks out there – Loose to be £10 a year to be paid from the time of signing the agreement – 

An application from A-‘s[Ann’s] Bouldshaw tenants, Messers Holmes and Co., to Captain and Mrs. S-[Sutherland] thro’ Holt for the engine coal in the 2 little fields adjoining the road (from 2 to 3 acres of coal) – Would give £130 per acre – Holt thought full as much as it was worth more than he should like to give for it himself – 

On Holt’s going A-[Ann] had Mr. Parker respecting her Navigation stock – 4 shares sold at £434 each the purchaser taking the dividend due at midsummer = 4 x 9 = £36. A-[Ann] signed away the 4 shares to Messers…. Tew and Co. bankers Wakefield – the money to be paid to P-[Parker] and A-[Adam] on Monday or Tuesday next £600 of it to be paid immediately to Marian for Lee Lane; and as to the rest A-[Ann] would write word what she would have done with it – 

Gave P-[Parker] Hinscliffe’s coal lease with instructions for the new  agreement – P-[Parker] seemed to think it could not be safely done by Memorandum – Nor Holt nor Hinscliffe can possibly tell how much can be got – But H-[Holt] thinks the quantity cannot exceed 1 1/2 acres – The agreement limited to what is under the road, the 23 perches of plantation and the 3 acres + of the one field called Flashes lying alongside the Crownest carriage road – 

Mr. Crossland wants a copy of his lease – Gave Mr. P-[Parker] the lease back with him to be copied and then returned immediately – This led to the mention of the temporary cavalry-stables – P-[Parker] said they could not raise the money – I said the stables should be on the reserved ground and might extend, if required along the top of St. Anne’s Street – Just put my finger on the the narrow out-of-line Street on Mr. Day’s plan, as if merely done to light Mr. Abbot’s cottages – 

Then miscellaneous talk about the resignation Ministers &c. the bringing in Lord Pollington &c. &c. Robson in London the great man of business of the Mexbroughs – Not much done here – 

Had proposed before A-[Ann] left us (perhaps about 11 1/2 or later?) the giving Messers P-[Parker] and A-[Adam] £50 a year for their Agency for us both; and said they would be better paid than P-[Parker] would be for going over to N.[North] Cave (to see Miss Marian about the Lee Lane title deeds) 2 days away and expense for four guineas – A deputation would cost her six guineas – She had best come over – 

I said they P-[Parker] and A-[Adam] would have nothing to do for A-[Ann] and me but be receive the rents and be responsible for them, and for all payments to Booth – To give notices to quit, and to let free of expense – To do, in at the £50 per annum; what law stewards usually did but to be paid for all extra law work – But would by and by given clear written directions – Mr. P-[Parker] staid till 12 10/’’ then till 12 55/’’ wrote all but the 1st line of today – Then till 1 10/’’ wrote as follows to Marian to go tonight –

“Shibden Hall – Friday 10 May 1839.

My dear Marian –

Mr. Parker has just been here, and said he had a 1/2 written letter which he meant to send you by this evening’s post – We told him to inform you, that the money would be ready for you any day after the fifteenth – He said the deeds could not possibly be ready – Miss Walker will make no difficulty about this – It will be a great convenience to you to have the money; and you had best take the opportunity – 

It seems, a deputation (respecting the copyhold) would cost you six guineas; and Mr. Parker’s going over, he told us, should be charged four guineas – Little enough for his 2 days of time and travelling expense – Your best plan would be, to come over as soon as you can – 

Answer Mr. Parker’s letter by instructing him to get on with the deeds as fast as he can, adding that you intend to be here on the fifteenth (Wednesday next), and will then settle everything – 

Do not hesitate – We can take in your maid without any trouble – Put posters to your carriage, and be here by seven in the evening, to dinner – 

I forgot to mention Robert Geoffrey in my last letter, and to ask you to let him know, that, on consideration, I thought it best to give up all thought of his coming here – 

Miss Walker is out – But I am sure I may send her love – Affectionately yours A L-[Lister]

You must count upon being here a few days; for your business cannot be done in less time – You will be awakened early in the morning by workmen, but will not, I trust, be subject to any other inconvenience” –

All the above just filled 2 pp.[pages] – had written so far at 1 25/’’ – 

A-[Ann] returned a few minutes ago, or, at least, I have heard her bell ring – with A-[Ann] read her my letter to Marian and wrote her copy of what she ought to write to Marian and of what she ought to write to Mr. Washington with Bentleys sstone lease to be copied by him for the two Hemingways        as desired by Mrs. Sutherland – 

1/4 hour at luncheon – I took a little cold roast roll of beef and then hot gingerbread which A-[Ann] said she enjoyed – She seems better today – She has Mr. Horner this afternoon, and is just gone to him now at 2 3/4 – 

Then went out to Robert Mann and William Lord and Ben and Thomas Sharpe filling carts (my own 2 horses – the 3d.[3rd] in the stable) with clay from the Laundry court road to near the glen bridge – Ordered the third horse out, and the clay to be carried on the top of the embankment between the back Lodge gates and the rock bridge – With Robert Mann there levelling after the carts till 5 – 

Then a little while at Listerwick saw Holt and Joseph Mann on their return from Hannah Walker’s – They went to set out the 300 yards of ground A-[Ann] is to have alongside the Crownest carriage road – Nothing set out – 

H.[Hannah] W.[Walker] wished all to remain as it is till after hay time she will then oblige Miss Walker who is to have what she wants whether she, H.[Hannah] W.[Walker], sells the coal or not – 

Told Holt to write again for the engine bill from Low Moor – Back with Robert Mann on the embankment just before 6 – then with him about explaining what I wished to be done – Told him I had made up my mind not to hire a gardener at present, but would take him R.[Robert] M.[Mann] at £50 per annum till his banks-man’s place at Listerwick was ready for him – Said Holt had told me, it would be a year first – R.[Robert] M.[Mann] very well satisfied – Said he would do anything – He would do the best he could – Said I wished the horses to earn their keep – He must talk things over with Booth – 

I should appoint to pay and to do what I myself did when at home – I hoped all would go on well – Robert to advise B-[Booth] about the colliery and to write to me this to the care of Messers Hammersley’s if he thought proper – With Robert the joiner and Mrs. Lee a little while – 

Then with A-[Ann] dressed – dinner at 7 20/’’ – A-[Ann] read French (in the North parlour) coffee – Read the newspaper and then wrote the last 19 1/2 lines till now 9 25/’’ – Then sat talking to A-[Ann] till came upstairs at 10 40/’’ fine but dull day and cold East wind as yesterday Fahrenheit 44º inside and 36º outside at 10 3/4 p.m. – then at accounts (making up rough book) till 11 20/’’ –

[symbols in the margin of the page:] N         ✓

[in the margin of the page:]   Stone let by A-[Ann] to the 2 Hemingways

[in the margin of the page:]   Rooke’s coal loose

[in the margin of the page:]   vide p.[page] 78.

[in the margin of the page:]   Sutherland Rookes coal £150 per acre

[in the margin of the page:]   Sutherland Engine coal £130 per acre

[in the margin of the page:]   A-[Ann] signs away 4 Navigation shares

[in the margin of the page:]   A-‘s[Ann’s] new coal lease to Hinscliffe

[in the margin of the page:]   will give R.[Robert] M.[Mann] £50

Page References:  SH:7/ML/E/23/0039 and  SH:7/ML/E/23/0040