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Friday 29 April 1836

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ready in 35 minutes - fine morning - frosty - very hard frost in the night - the sun out and F (in the sun) 50° at 9 25 am - had Mr. Husband - wanted to buy a few roods of parpoints of Mark Hepworth (from yew trees quarry) for the meer clow - then had Mr. Washington - he shewed me Mrs. Sutherland’s letter signed by Captain S- in June 1833 giving their and A-‘s leave to Illingworth to get the coal - he said John Sunderland of the Beer shop (old Dumb mill) had applied for the Travellers Inn - thought he would give the rent (£20 a year) - gave SW- my address at Hammersleys in case he should want to write to A- and had no other orders from her - gave him (very handsomely) his congé from my stewardship - said if there was an honest man, I believed him to be one - had no fault to find (said thought not of the levelling business and valuation of Hill top) it was  [mere]  matter of convenience that I should have Mr. Parker to receive and pay all - Poor SW- said ‘it will make no difference’ - I then talked about his lithographed plan of the township of Southowram - he said it would cost 40 guineas for a hundred copies - the sale of 60 guineas - copies would repay him - bade him write a little prospectus - set about a subscription and I would put my name down for 2 copies and would put A-‘s down for one and would venture on Mrs. S-‘s name for one - this last however I had best tell W- to let off from - he went away at 10 20 - then breakfast and with Marian till 11 ½ - she mending my gloves - then out - with Robert Mann + 3 draining and levelling behind the farmyard - he said SW- had just told him Husband and Oates had moved and set SW-‘s peg 18in. higher in the walk which accounted for the difference in their levelling and his - and I should only be able to draw off 2ft. 6in. of water instead of 5ft. - Holt not satisfied about all this - kept Robert near an hour from his dinner giving directions about Lodge drift and pulling up the stuff and laying in along the road wall - off to John Oates at 1 for about an hour - had all the levelling business over - he surprised that SW- should continue mentioning it - his (W-‘s) peg about a ft. too low, so that W-‘s line was by so much an inclined plane instead of a level line - should be able to draw off 4ft. of water as always proposed - if I could draw off a ft. more the water must come lower on to the wheel, and I should thus loose far more than I gained - much coal-talk - he said I should get £200 per acre for the coal - could not well get 3 acres a year at one pit -said I thought of another near the highroad (in Wellroyde land) - JO- very much for this - talked as if coals might rise in price asked him to give me on my return a sketch of the manner (ground plan) in which the colliery should be worked - should not get all in one square, but in a narrow line or strip upwards so as to keep the coal as nearly of the same value (1st and last) as I could on account of the sameness of distance from the pit - then with R- went with JO- into his tenterfield - said the old pit hill (about 15 yards square) might be levelled down and newly soiled over - then with Robert Mann + 3 and Mosey setting gate from Allen car into Little field and with Mark helping him in the intervals of levelling after the Northgate carts - about 5 ½ took Robert and his men to get largeish holly up out of the walk (the last remaining) and spruce and silvre firs and 2 arbores vitae and 1 yew from near the 2 large Scotch firs in the wood and saw them all planted in the çidevant paddock - then had William Green - said if he left his present house to go back to the one I bought of him, I should turn his daughter out - I would have nothing to do with her - William said she did not behave well to him, and he thought of leaving her to be quiet - said he was to draw his money (purchase money of cottages) out of Mr. Parker’s hands as he (WG-) liked till he had done it all, and then I would take care of him tho’ I would do nothing for his daughter - then had Barstow - told him to get more explicit note from Bray of consent and ditto from Mr. Wainhouse about the foundry - and then A- would agree - Rent £120 per annum for 7 years from 1 April 1837. this year to be £50 except after the rate of £40 per annum for engine and foundry from the time of their being workable - B- to keep all in repair and pay all taxes and pay insurance to be raised in proportion to rise of rent, or otherwise as might seem fair - read him the written directions A- gave me - Letter from A- this evening - pretty good account - pretty fair spirits - kept Oddy standing by me with the open letter bag in her hand while I wrote 3 pages in 5 or 10 minutes and set them off to A- 28 Blake street York saying I thought she would rather have this scrawl than no letter - then went down to Barstow again (for he had waited) and gave him a note to Mr. Bray saying A- would agree with Barstow and co. if he (Bray) would inform A- by note that he had no objections - dinner at 8 ½ and coffee and Marian with me all the time till went to my aunt at 9 ¾ to 10 ½ - from then to 1 making out Agenda and writing out the journal of today -

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Friday 29 April 1836: SH:7/ML/E/19/0034

8 50

2 25

- Ready in 35 minutes - fine morning - frosty - very hard frost in the night - the sun out and F (in the sun) 50° at 9 25 am - had Mr. Husband - wanted to buy a few roods of parpoints of Mark Hepworth (from yew trees quarry) for the meer clow - then had Mr. Washington - he shewed me Mrs. Sutherland’s letter signed by Captain S- in June 1833 giving their and A-‘s leave to Illingworth to get the coal - he said John Sunderland of the Beer shop (old Dumb mill) had applied for the Travellers Inn - thought he would give the rent (£20 a year) - gave SW- my address at Hammersleys in case he should want to write to A- and had no other orders from her - gave him (very handsomely) his congé from my stewardship - said if there was an honest man, I believed him to be one - had no fault to find (said thought not of the levelling business and valuation of Hill top) it was  [mere] matter of convenience that I should have Mr. Parker to receive and pay all - Poor SW- said ‘it will make no difference’ - I then talked about his lithographed plan of the township of Southowram - he said it would cost 40 guineas for a hundred copies - the sale of 60 guineas - copies would repay him - bade him write a little prospectus - set about a subscription and I would put my name down for 2 copies and would put A-‘s down for one and would venture on Mrs. S-‘s name for one - this last however I had best tell W- to let off from - he went away at 10 20 - then breakfast and with Marian till 11 ½ - she mending my gloves - then out - with Robert Mann + 3 draining and levelling behind the farmyard - he said SW- had just told him Husband and Oates had moved and set SW-‘s peg 18in. higher in the walk which accounted for the difference in their levelling and his - and I should only be able to draw off 2ft. 6in. of water instead of 5ft. - Holt not satisfied about all this - kept Robert near an hour from his dinner giving directions about Lodge drift and pulling up the stuff and laying in along the road wall - off to John Oates at 1 for about an hour - had all the levelling business over - he surprised that SW- should continue mentioning it - his (W-‘s) peg about a ft. too low, so that W-‘s line was by so much an inclined plane instead of a level line - should be able to draw off 4ft. of water as always proposed - if I could draw off a ft. more the water must come lower on to the wheel, and I should thus loose far more than I gained - much coal-talk - he said I should get £200 per acre for the coal - could not well get 3 acres a year at one pit -said I thought of another near the highroad (in Wellroyde land) - JO- very much for this - talked as if coals might rise in price asked him to give me on my return a sketch of the manner (ground plan) in which the colliery should be worked - should not get all in one square, but in a narrow line or strip upwards so as to keep the coal as nearly of the same value (1st and last) as I could on account of the sameness of distance from the pit - then with R- went with JO- into his tenterfield - said the old pit hill (about 15 yards square) might be levelled down and newly soiled over - then with Robert Mann + 3 and Mosey setting gate from Allen car into Little field and with Mark helping him in the intervals of levelling after the Northgate carts - about 5 ½ took Robert and his men to get largeish holly up out of the walk (the last remaining) and spruce and silvre firs and 2 arbores vitae and 1 yew from near the 2 large Scotch firs in the wood and saw them all planted in the çidevant paddock - then had William Green - said if he left his present house to go back to the one I bought of him, I should turn his daughter out - I would have nothing to do with her - William said she did not behave well to him, and he thought of leaving her to be quiet - said he was to draw his money (purchase money of cottages) out of Mr. Parker’s hands as he (WG-) liked till he had done it all, and then I would take care of him tho’ I would do nothing for his daughter - then had Barstow - told him to get more explicit note from Bray of consent and ditto from Mr. Wainhouse about the foundry - and then A- would agree - Rent £120 per annum for 7 years from 1 April 1837. this year to be £50 except after the rate of £40 per annum for engine and foundry from the time of their being workable - B- to keep all in repair and pay all taxes and pay insurance to be raised in proportion to rise of rent, or otherwise as might seem fair - read him the written directions A- gave me - Letter from A- this evening - pretty good account - pretty fair spirits - kept Oddy standing by me with the open letter bag in her hand while I wrote 3 pages in 5 or 10 minutes and set them off to A- 28 Blake street York saying I thought she would rather have this scrawl than no letter - then went down to Barstow again (for he had waited) and gave him a note to Mr. Bray saying A- would agree with Barstow and c° if he (Bray) would inform A- by note that he had no objections - dinner at 8 ½ and coffee and Marian with me all the time till went to my aunt at 9 ¾ to 10 ½ - from then to 1 making out Agenda and writing out the journal of today -