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Journal entry – John Grey – 3 Jan 1834
Friday 3rd January
Engaged with settlement of Accounts in the office & with parties enquiring the particulars of farms. Afterwards went through the Dilston Estate to see the progress of the embankment & to try to teach some men cutting hedges, to adopt a better method than they are accustomed to. Mr Stokoe a Millwright who had formerly been employed by the Hospital, applied for payment of an account of £8.8.0 for valuing Threshing Machines, which he had presented to Mr Hooper, bu
Journal entry – John Grey – 4 Jan 1834
Saturday 4th January
The morning being promising, to escape the interruptions of the Office, I set out in good time to make an excursion to the west, examining in my way the repair of the barn & building of some conveniences at Highside, now finished, the fences & draining at Woodhall, advising the tenants respecting some draining necessary at the Rattenraw Farms, inspecting the new buildings just now completed & measured off at Haydon Town Farm, which is substantially done.
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 4 Jan 1834
Messrs Finlay Hogson & Co London Jan 4th 1834
I have duly received your Letter of the 1st inst and note you Sale to Mr W[ilia]m Parker of 5200 P[iece]s Lead and 70 Casks of Litharge. Also your sale of 2000 Pieces Common Lead to Mr Key. These sales will fully establish the Price at £15-10 and £16 of which I have appraised the Duke of Cleveland. Mr Backhouse has made out the ac[coun]t against the London Works which you will find to agree with yours, excepting the Payment of the Leve
Journal entry – John Grey – 6 Jan 1834
Monday 6th January1834
Had an early visit from Andrew Thorburn threatening the destruction of Gairshield by ploughing out as much Grassland as he is intitled to by his lease, well aware of the injury it would occasion to the letting of the place, and complaining of the restriction I had put upon him as to his Crop at Mirehouse. I told him that I had applied to the Board for instructions, as to whether he should required to pay more rent for this year than his farms should be let for the
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 6 Jan 1834
John Hodgson Esq Jan 6th 1833
I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 4thinst this morning and am glad Mr <W[alke]r> approves of all that has been <done> in his absence. I wrote to him at <….>gate on Sat[urda]y and Mr Donkin to the same place yesterday.
Mr Parker called this morning to say he sh[oul]d write [to] his partner Mr Walker to pay for the 15,000 p[iece]s purchased on the 7th of August last by three equal payments in Cash at Glyns &a
Journal entry – John Grey – 7 Jan 1834
Tuesday 7th January
A number of Accounts, belonging to the last year still coming in, delays the making up of the Books. I heard to day from Mr Parker that he & Mr Crawhall had fixed the price of Lead for the bygone quarter at £14.16.0. I had two customers to day for the lot of Wood advertized at Capon’s Cleugh, the one offered £320 & the other £222 a most extraordinary difference of opinion as to its value. It is an excellent Lot of Wood, though in a situation which makes
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Lock Wilson & Bell – 7 Jan 1834
Messrs Lock Wilson & Bell
At your request I hand you Invoice as above and beg to acknowledge the Receipt of Tender for 20 Tons Malleable Iron Rails which I accept. BJ
Journal entry – John Grey – 8 Jan 1834
Wednesday 8th January
Teasdale came to me this morning as I had desired. I showed him the state of his farm, & among other things, that he had only 10 Acres sown with grass seeds last half year & 47 for fallow this, which should have been equal in quantity. He stated as his reason that the land was tired of growing grass in proof of which I must see how bad those 10 Acres were, & that there was no use in sowing any - and that all that 47 Acres were not for fallow, as he could
Journal entry – John Grey – 9 Jan 1834
Thursday 9th January
A Wet day throughout. Had a meeting with Mr Walker, Agent for the Railway Company respecting its course through the Hospital estates to the west of Hexham, & requested him to fix particularly its position at Allerwash Mill, as the end of the Stable, which I examined there some days ago is in danger of falling, but if the rail-way should interfere with it, it would not be right to repair it at present. Received the Plans of the proposed House at Dilston from Mr Kay &
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Joseph Price – 9 Jan 1834
Joseph <Price> & Co Jan 9th 1834
Gent[lemen]
Annexed I hand you Ac[coun]t of two purchases of WB Lead a payment for which will be due as follows
£ s d
for the first Purchase Amt 941 3 3 due Feb[ruar]y 21st
for the second 497 15 0 f[ebruar]y 23rd
1438 18 3
And have this day drawn on you as under viz
At Forty three days after date for £941 3 3
At Forty five days after d
Journal entry – John Grey – 10 Jan 1834
Friday 10 January
Another rainy day & little to be done, save to write the teller & attend to business in the Office. Benson is engaged with Green & Rewcastle in making up the accounts of the buildings which he has been measuring.
Journal entry – John Grey – 11 Jan 1834
Saturday 11th January
Rode to Wooley to advise the Tenant as to the arrangement of the farm so as to get it into a course of rotation conformable to the covenants by which it is to be managed in future. Also to fix upon the mode of renewing some old fences. Returned by Dipton Wood to see the land to be planted where some people are employed in clearing away and burning the refuse branches etc from the late falls of wood, & others are making pits for the planting of this season, which
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 11 Jan 1834
John Hodgson Esq
I shall see Mr W[ilia]m Crawhall on Tuesday next when I take up the subsistence money & I will request him to state what he considers the value of Mr Beaumont’s interest in the Allendale Road. Its real value to him as connected with his mines has been at least from £1,000 to £1,200 a year but the valuation must be made upon the probable return that he will receive from the road in future.
As no dividend has yet been declared I am quite sure that no pur
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 11 Jan 1834
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co
I have duly rec[eive]d your lres of the 6th & 7th inst and note your sale of two pieces of fine Silver and Payment of the net proceeds to Mr B[eaumon]ts credit at Glyn & Co. I also observe that the parties to whom you offered the the Lead Ore have refused it will answer our purpose quite as well to make it into Lead. The £300 paid on the 9th Feb[ruar]y and the £100 paid on the 12th July to the Railway company was upon Mr B[eaumon]ts or
Journal entry – John Grey – 13 Jan 1834
Monday 13th January 1834
As soon as I could get away from the Office, rode to Throckley where I had appointed the Workmen to meet me, whose tenders had been accepted for making the Pits & fences for the plantations, that I might fix the dimensions & distances of the former, according to the situation & quality of the Soil. It will be necessary in some parts to carry a little good soil from the low ground to put into such pits, where there is only the refuse of the old Coal hea
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 13 Jan 1834
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co
I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 10th inst advising the sale of a fine Piece of Silver and payment of the net proceeds £273-10-11 to Mr Beaumonts credit at Glyn & Co. I presume the quarterly Payment to the Bishop of Durham due the 31st ultimo was paid by Mr Key as usual but I have no advice of it.
You state under Date of 26 Dec[ember]
We debit Mr B[eaumon]ts account £83-2s-6d paid this day to Glyn & Co on his acc
Journal entry – John Grey – 14 Jan 1834
Tuesday 14th January
Being Hexham Market day, had interviews with several of the Tenants on various matters & applications from others who are candidates for the farms now to let, anxious to know the result of their tenders. I was employed the greater part of the day on walking over the Farms on the Dilston Estate directing & instructing the Workmen as to the improvement of the Hedges, in which, I think I see a greater willingness in the tenants to cooperate, as I have constantl
Letters – George Backhouse to Thomas Key – 14 Jan 1834
Thomas Key Esq
D[ea]r Sir
During Mr Johnsons absence at the Mines this day, your endorsement on John Dobins Draft & Joseph Lee’s accep[yance] has been returned for non payment. It was brought to me and I again returned it to Mr SK Batson observing that he has been many times requested to provide for such things at Glyns in case any of your endorsements should not be paid. He says Glyns refuse to do anything except through the regular channel, that is, returning them to Berwic
Letters – George Backhouse to Finlay & Hodgson – 14 Jan 1834
Finlay & Co 14 Jan[uar]y 1834
Annexed I <transmit> you Stock of WB Lead at Blaydon showing the q[uant]ities disposable and wanting.
I have also to advise you of a piece of fine Silver this day forwarded to your address as usual by Jackson & Co Waggon & weighing 1593 3/4 Ozs to which you will give the necessary attention. This will close the Bullion A/c for 1833 & I hope it will soon be disposed of.
I am Sir GB
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 14 Jan 1834
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co
I duly received your letter of the 13th inst. It is true the Liquidation Fund of 1832 is but £3,223-15-6 but would it not be better at once to carry the Profit of 1831 and 1832 to Mr Beaumont’s Debit to meet the £20,000 – take the Balance out of last years Profit and commence our funds from 1833
The following Gentlemen residing in London hold Shares in the Derwent Mines and are Directors; John Roath, Mr Harry Forman, John Macdonnald, Thomas Hi
Journal entry – John Grey – 15 Jan 1834
Wednesday 15th January
Received the Tender for Farms from Greenwich - made a list of those for each farm, writing letters & instituting other means of inquiry into the Character & circumstances of those who stand foremost on the lists, with whom I am not acquainted, that I may as speedily as possible communicate my opinion to the Board. I went by appointment to meet Mr Grace, Mr Bainbridge’s Agent, at Newton to fix upon the new line of boundary fence between his property &
Letters – J Longhorn to George Backhouse – 16 Jan 1834
Berwick Jan[uar]y 1834
My Dear Sir,
With reference to the Charge proposed to be made in Mr Beaumonts acc[oun]t under the circumstances you name. I cannot object to allow the £2 per cent upon it more really we could not allow unless for the movements in London, we were to make a charge upon them to indemnify us the expenses. I am my Dear Sir Your very Truly
J Longhorn
You will receive herewith a ret[urne]d Bill which with similar ones, were desired, when dishonered to
Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Jan 1834
Thursday 17th January
Received the Boards Minutes & wrote several letters to Parties referred to therein. Also to persons who are offerers for farms, with whom I wished to have explanations. Bargained with Mr Hedley for the Hartburngrainge Lot of Wood at £80, which is exactly Mr Parkin’s calculation, & I conceive it to be a correct one, as the purchaser showed me his which was £76. He is to pay £40 in a fortnight, & to give a Bill for the remaining £40 payable in Mar
Letters – Benjamin Johnson – 17 Jan 1834
Sir,
In a letter I received today from Mr Beaumont this morn[ing] he says-
“Inform the Secretary of the Northumberland Hunt that I distinctly understood that the Subscription was for three years only.”
NCastle Jan[uary] 17 1834 I am Sir Yours Truly BJ
Journal entry – John Grey – 18 Jan 1834
Friday 18th January
Had interviews with several of the successful and unsuccessful candidates for farms, which it is unnecessary here to detail. Rode up to Fourstones to look at the situation of a piece of rock for which application has been made for the purpose of quarrying into blocks for the rail way. It is very near the road & the working of it would be attended with little damage, should the Stone prove of a suitable quality of which I shall have to report hereafter. I then
