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Journal entry – John Grey – 6 Jan 1835
Tuesday 6th January
Transmitted to the Secretary a Copy of the Bishop of Durham’s proposal to the proprietors of North Durham, respecting the holding a Quarter Sessions, the appointment of an under Sheriff & Coroner for that district, & the building a Court & Prison within it; with a copy of my answer to the circular from the Bishop, containing my reasons of dissent. Attended Hexham market to meet by appointment some parties who are offerers for the farms, & to try to ob
Journal entry – John Grey – 7 Jan 1835
Wednesday 7th January
Was detained all the forenoon by various parties enquiring the fate of their offers for Farms, & with discussions respecting the Dilston Farms with the several candidates, with whom some negotiation must necessarily be entered into for the off Farm, for the offers for the others being so near it will depend upon what they may give for that, to decide in which way the greatest amount will arise for the whole.
Had Mr Parkin & some parties viewin
Journal entry – John Grey – 8 Jan 1835
?Thursday 8th January
Mr Swan came according to promise, is a respectable looking Man, & is I hear a good Farmer. We discussed the conditions of management etc. Mr Pinter put the want of a Shed for Carts & implements, which I was forced to admit, but as the other Hartburn Farms are equally in want of such accommodation, I could not promise to undertake the cost of building them, but engaged to see, if in clearing the Plantations, I could give them some refuse Wood to erect
Journal entry – John Grey – 9 Jan 1835
Friday 9th January
Mr Atkinson came but would not advance upon his offer of £29 for the Moor, or fell land, as he calls it, & was indifferent about treating for the Haugh - so we parted & I sent to let Mr Benson know that his being the best proposal for the Haugh Farm, he might come to the Office tomorrow morning to sign an Agreement conforming to the Covenants which should be inserted on the Lease.
Sent to Bones the Lessee of Throckley Colliery informing him that u
Journal entry – John Grey – 10 Jan 1835
Saturday 10th January 1835
Had a long interview this morning with Mr Benson, setting the Covenants for a new Lease of the Haugh Farm, during which, I did not fail to admonish him on the subject of his former mismanagement, & warn him that the Covenants should be strictly drawn out as well as attended to in future. He promised to turn over a new leaf and make great improvements. Mentioned some Cattle Sheds that are in a ruinous state & a foot path through his Stack Yard that
Journal entry – John Grey – 12 Jan 1835
Monday 12th January
Received the Secretary’s Letter, & reported to Mr Fenwick the instructions it contained respecting the Steps to be taken for securing payment of the Rent due by the Lessees of Scremerston Colliery & applied to Messrs Willowby and Home for information respecting the result of the Magistrates meeting in North Durham. Mr Stephenson came from a considerable distance to enquire about the New Town Farm, but the heavy fall of Snow rendered it impossible to examine
Journal entry – John Grey – 13 Jan 1835
Tuesday 13th January
I reported formerly to the Board that Robert Curry, tenant of the small Farm of Eadsbush & Allotments, who is a very industrious, decent man, had been unfortunately cheated of a sum of money, by an Attorney into whose hands it had gone for other purposes, & on being called on to make it good, was compelled to make an Assignment. I obtained from his Assignee payment of the rent due at May day and an undertaking for that due at Martinmas, and sent for Curry to
Journal entry – John Grey – 14 Jan 1835
Wednesday 14th January
Met the Railway Agent at Hexham & rode with him up the line to Fourstones, to fix upon the points at which Roads for the convenience of the Farm should be made over it some of which require cutting down on one Side & forcing up on the other to make them of easy ascent. We then proceeded to Allerwash Mill & met Mr Benson & the Mason who has the Contract for the Railway works in that part, examined the Ground & fixed on the proper site for pla
Journal entry – John Grey – 15 Jan 1835
Thursday 15th January
Dispatched the Cash Account &. Vouchers to the 31st December last to Greenwich. Was engaged with some Tenants respecting the Covenants & Agreements for new Leases who are generally starting some difficulty & requiring fresh explanations. Also some parties viewing Dilston High Farm, intending to offer for it. Bones of Throckley came up, according to appointment, but brought me only £20 of his Colliery rent, promising to make up the remainder in a
Journal entry – John Grey – 16 Jan 1835
Friday 16th January
The Messenger whom I had sent Mr Todd to come over & settle the Conditions of his taking Highwood farm, brought me his answer engaging to be here this morning at 11 o’clock. I consequently made arrangements to be at home, but Mr Todd has not appeared. The day has been bad & he lives 14 Miles off, but that should not have prevented him. I wish the hints I thought it necessary to put by way of caution, respecting satisfactory security etc may not h
Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Jan 1835
?Saturday 17th January 1835
Heard to my great disappointment that Mr Stephenson whose offer for Dilston New Town Farm, I considered a fair one, & who I know to be a substantial Tenant, declined any further treaty, having been invited to take one nearer his Fathers residence. In these times, good tenants are so slippery that if not taken at the moment, there is no dependence upon them - and those who took by private treaty, are now dissatisfied, saying that if they had allowed them to
Journal entry – John Grey – 19 Jan 1835
Monday 19th January
The Weather severe with a good deal of Snow on the ground. Little to be seen on the Farms - sent Mr Hunt to employ some Men who cannot prosecute their ordinary work of making Drains & fences at present, in cutting down a bank at Woodhall, to improve the entrance to the Farm Offices, which must have been always bad, but has become dangerous to Carts by the run of Water hollowing it out. Was engaged in Office business, writing Letters etc most of the day. Toward ev
Journal entry – John Grey – 20 Jan 1835
Tuesday 20th
I got them up to £420. Their present rent is £342. They are to be, as will appear by the Agreement which I wrote out and obtained their signatures to, at the sole expense of new Buildings & Machinery. That connected with the Corn Mills, to be repaid by valuation at the end of their Term. For the Bone Mill they are not to expect any compensation, but to have the Materials for a Water Wheel which we have as dead stock on hand, & to leave it in repair. The drying
Journal entry – Robert Rowell to John Grey – 21 Jan 1835
Honourable Gentleman
We again trouble you concerning the arrears we owe to the Greenwich Hospital for Newton Hall and Thornbrough High Barns Farms the whole amount due last May was 985£. you consented to throw of 185£ for which we humbly thank you, we have since just paid 600£ leaving 200£ to pay, when we made a calculation of the value of the stock and crop to Mr Grey we thought there would be a little remain after paying the above sum, but we find from the deficiency of the cr
Journal entry – John Grey – 21 Jan 1835
Wednesday 21st
The weather still severe, & little out of doors work to be done. Received from Mr Handcock his Balance of £136.12.3 for Wood. Wrote to my Son giving him the dimensions & description of the Wall to be rebuilt by the Sea Links at Scremerston, directing him to obtain estimates for it & to communicate them to me, & respecting other matters on the Northern Estates, especially to try to obtain from the present manager of Scremerston Colliery a payment in l
Journal entry – John Grey – 22 Jan 1835
Thursday 22nd January
Having heard from Mr Fenwick several days ago, that the Duke of Northumberland’s Solicitor required a particular description of each parcel of Property to be conveyed in the Manor of Wark, its contents & boundaries, with the names of the owners of each adjoining property, I requested Mr Dickinson to make search for the Plans that would as I expected, afford the information. Finding this morning that he had not yet been able to supply the necessary information,
Journal entry – John Grey – 23 Jan 1835
Friday 23rd January 1835
Dispatched the Plans of the different Allotments in Wark Manor, with an explanatory Letter to Mr Fenwick.
Sent Mr Hunt to Haydon Bridge to collect the rents of Cottages & small tenements of which the occupiers are not called to attend on the rent days. Received from the Hospitals late Tenants, the Rowells, a Petition to the Board for a farther reduction of their Arrears, on account of the failing produce of the Crop on which they reckoned for t
Journal entry – John Grey – 24 Jan 1835
Saturday 24th January 1835
Having received last night by Coach an Affidavit from Mr Fenwick requiring my Oath before a Commissioner of Exchequer, to prove the claims of the Hospital against Robert Johnson, as Lessee of Scremerston Colliery, Limekilns and Farm, I rode at an early hour to Hexham & got the Commissioner’s signature in time to enclose it by the Mail to Mr Fenwick. Returned by the banks of the Tyne, watching the effects of the River upon them, being in flood from the me
Journal entry – John Grey – 26 Jan 1835
Monday 26th
Mr French who purchases Wood for the Governor Thos Mires came to me today for the second time respecting the Lot No 3 in Dipton Plantation, & finally agreed to give £190 which is only 10/- below our valuation, the money to be paid on the 2nd December next, & all the Wood to be cleared off the Ground left for replanting by the last day of September 1836. I postponed advertizing the other Lots that have been set out & measured on the Banks of the Allen & at Hart
Journal entry – John Grey – 27 Jan 1835
Tuesday 27th
Forwarded to the Secretary the Tenders received for Dilston New Town Farm with a report of the Character and circumstances of the parties, as far as I had been able to ascertain them. Went to Hexham being Market day. Received £56 from Mr Beaumonts Agent for Wood & paid in all my Cash to the Bank Agent. Examined the stock of young Trees in the Nursery there to see what there was which would be suitable for planting on Dipton Fell,& at the other places which must n
Journal entry – John Grey – 28 Jan 1835
Wednesday 28th
Wrote out an advertizement of five Lots of Wood for sale & sent it to two of the Newcastle Papers. Took advantage of the fine day to go through the several Farms in Hexhamshire, & among others proceeded to the distant & detached one of Eadsbush, wishing to ascertain from the unfortunate Tenant whether he had yet obtained the means of carrying it on, or had got security to offer, for his doing so. He happened however, to be absent on that business. This is
Journal entry – John Jobling to John Grey – 29 Jan 1835
?Sir
I beg to state to you that on receiving the valuation upon which my offer for the Greenwich Hospital Farm situated in this Township <misfounded> I have discovered two or three Clerical errors in it which have had the effect of raising my valuation to the amount of £1.5.0. I annex a Copy of the Items in which the errors occur and should be ready to show you the original document containing such errors.
I have to submit to you that in consequence of my valuation hav
Journal entry – John Grey – 29 Jan 1835
Thursday 29th January 1835
A second Affidavit in the extent against Johnson, being found necessary on account of the arrears extending beyond a years Rent, Mr Dickinson proved the same before an Exchequer Commissioner which was returned to Mr Fenwick, to whom I also handed a Pro. Note for £70 due by Messrs Dinning, & an account of £48 likewise for Parcels of Wood sold to them at different times within the last year, with instructions for him to take immediate steps for their re
Journal entry – John Grey – 30 Jan 1835
Friday 30th January 1835
Received a statement from Mr Jobling of Newtonhall showing that he had miscalculated the Rent in his tender for the Hospitals farm at that place & applying to the Board for a reduction of the Rent to that amount viz £21.5.0 to be released from his Agreement. To make the reduction or not, is for the Commissioners to decide, but to release such a Tenant would be very impolitic, as his rent even with the reduction, far exceeds any other offer. I was surprize
Journal entry – John Grey – 31 Jan 1835
Saturday 31st January 1835
Left Haydon Bridge early. At Woodhall examined some encroachments of the Tyne upon the Hospital’s land, which it will be necessary to defend by a small embankments. Looked also at a point where it is likely to run away a part of the Hexham Turnpike, which the Trustees applied to me thro’ their Clerk to join them in securing. I wrote to the Clerk to say that on examination I found the bank between the River & Road, which was endangered by the Floo
