#also do i still have a thing about tenant all these years after dw yes i absolutely do thanks

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looking up from my 4 1/2 hour g**d *mens playlist: i'm going through something

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Tuesday 4 October 1836

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No kiss A- better gave her her draught this morning after the 2 pills last night - fine morning - sun - F48° at 7 50 with Robert Mann + 3 and the gardener taking soil as yesterday - Mark Hepworth and Binns (3 horses and 2 one horse carts) came at 8 ½ each bringing a load from Hipperholme quarry coarse rubble - saw them set to work at carting clay from the court - with Ingham - with Mr. Husband - with A- till she got up after 9 - then had her tenant Bairstow to pay (and did pay) the last ½ year’s rent for Water Lane mill, and A- paid him the last years poor rate £7.17.6 tho’ the lease settles that the tenant is to pay all taxes but Mr. SW- had paid them! A- will pay no more - this well understood by Bairstow now - breakfast at 10 ½ in ½ hour and took A- her breakfast upstairs - then at my desk - writing out memoranda in my rough book and the above of today till 11 ¾ - and went downstairs to Holt - he will be here tomorrow to meet Washington to lay down on the coal-plan Hinscliffe’s trespass - not satisfied with Booth’s walling against the engine-pit - walled with rough rag - should have been done with better stone - should be smooth-faced - the shape of the engine-pit should not be altered - plumb-lines should be let down from the oak-frame, and the walling should be true to these - walked with H- to the wheel-race, and went down to the bottom and examined the engine-pit - Holt to see about himself tomorrow - and to appoint Joseph Mann to look after it for him - went with him to the Long goit to see and tell Joseph M- this - he was not there - told Holt to give me a regular plan of his way that he thought best to work the colliery with a calculation of the expense of driving the 2 heads or main-gates - he means them both to be hurrying gates. 4ft. wide and 3ft. 4in. or as I said, 3ft. 6in. high, and still says the coal will pay for driving - told him to calculate if anything could be gained by bringing out the coal at Whiskum - he owned 3 acres a year could not be pulled up at Listerwick unless I had 2 pits close together which plan he seemed much to approve - told his own private grievances - all their property must be sold (he thought) before things could be settled - advised his taking the opinion of some law-man - yes! he should consult Messrs.  P- and A- I said he had best do so, and, if he had to go over to York for me, might also consult Mr. Gray - H- said Mrs. Machan was gone (to Birmingham?) to get one of her daughters to sign - said I would rather buy the coal without the farm - H- to try and manage this if he could - Left H- to go to Elland, and I stood talking to George Naylor in the field above his house - about his horse-feed - about ploughing my bit of the Long field - he will do it at 11/. per DW tho’ Mr. Waterhouse had given him 12/. per DW for ploughing out an old lay - says lints (proper lints) sown in March will be as early as tares sown now and a much heavier crop - does not think tares will do on that hill - will not be ready before midsummer and the lints will be ready by then - must cut grass for green food from May to midsummer and can give carrots and potatoes till May - said I thought of having lints, potatoes, and a little red clover - from GN- went to upper Place quarry - Dobson not there - Womersley came to me to tell me he knew Mrs. Machan meant to ask £2000 for the farm and coal together - I gave no intimation what I intended to do, but he saw that I did not think the farm cheap at that price, and he said it was too much - tho’ calculated that £200 would do the repairs and he would give the rent he gives now which would be = 3pc. viz. £500 for the coal £1500 for the farm + £200 repairs = £52.10.0 per annum for £1700 outlay = £3.1.9 3/17 pc. (£52.10.0x20x12/17= £61. 9 3/17d.) then went with me to the 2nd hole to shew the Little marsh stone - not very promising - a great deal of baring, and a little water at the bottom - the top stone wanting - only the bottom lift left - advised my putting down a small pit-hole (done

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by colliers) in the middle of the breadth and about 10 yards from the bottom wall of the piece of oat-stubble below the garden, and said I might shew enough of what the stone is and be ready for the letting in a month from this time - wanted to take the stone of me by private contract - no! I could not do this - had said it should be let publically, and so it should - he then bade me £500 down for the stone in Little marsh land adjoining to Mrs. Machan’s ground where F- put down a hole - supposed there was about a DW of stone - would be bound to this quantity and to a term to get it in - said I would think about it - told me Mr. Freeman had given it out, that I had promised him all the stone I had - and that this promise was mentioned in the writings he had of the stone in yew trees wood - I said I was surprised at this being said by Mr. F- as there was not a word of truth in it - In returning saw Mark Town’s wife - she wanted me to build up - do up the cottage at the East end of the house but I would have nothing to say to it - returned by Pump lane and the wheel-race, and sometime at Hannah Greens’ - the poor old woman sent me off by saying I was bound in honour not to raise her rent as long as she lived my uncle had said she was to live there as long as she lived at the present rent - I said he had never told me so - and I was not bound in anyway - best for her to let me alone on this point - home between 4 and 5 - with Booth and 2 men at the West tower - James alone in the buttery cellar - Abraham poorly not here - Ingham and his  man and boy had got the upper wall of the 1st arch done - Joseph Sharpe ill and not here but Robert Schofield breaking stone on the new road - Sugden and George had the 2 new horses out in the morning - Frank carting some parpoints for Joseph Mann from Hipperholme quarry and he and Ingham and c° sided oak wood in the evening - Bligh and the little York joiner making 17 yards of arching - would be £5 wood and labour if I had all to find - Had Mr. Husband about the engine pit - sometime in the stable - came in at 6 ½ - A- had been very poorly all the day - at 1st annoyed at my having sent John Booth (1st time) to Priestley’s Calderdale brewery but reconciled afterwards - dinner at 7 20 in ½ hour - coffee upstairs and sat reading to A- the account of Mallibran’s funeral at Manchester on Saturday last till 10 pm then 10 minutes with my aunt - rather better tonight - asleep or I should have gone to her before - till 11 10 wrote all the above of today - fine day - F38° at 11 10 pm