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Journal entry – John Grey – 13 Mar 1835
Friday 13th March
Another good day, a great part of which I passed among the parties of Workmen, employed in obtaining & placing the Materials at the Embankment, & among those planting the waste Quarries at Dilston New Town.
Mr Dinning brought me a receipt from Mr Fenwick showing that he has paid to him £48/16s for Wood, which account I had put into Mr Fenwick’s hands, & wished me to sell him some Scots Firs. I directed Mr Parkin to let him have some of those
Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Mar 1835
Tuesday 17th
Took the Estates of Throckley & Whittle in my way from Newcastle. At the former place the repair of the Mill is completed & its business resumed. The Colliery doing better than the last time I visited it, but still its operations are of trifling account. I expected that Mr Forster would have viewed and reported upon the different Collieries by this time, but had a letter from him informing me that he had been confined by ill health, but hoped to come up in a fortnig
Journal entry – John Grey – 18 Mar 1835
Wednesday 18th March
Sold Mr Walton for Mr Beaumont’s Mines a Lot of Wood on the Banks of the Allen for £215, which is £4 below the valuation, but it is a fair price, the Ground being very steep & the Wood difficult to remove - also a small Lot of Scots Firs in Dipton Wood for £45… being together £260 - for which he gives a Pro:[missory] Note payable in January next. The Wood to be cut & cleared away in March 1836. Rode through the different sets of Men planting & mend
Journal entry – John Grey – 19 Mar 1835
Thursday 19th March
Examined with Mr Green, the Architect, the state of the new House & various things necessary for its completion. Had some Tenants respecting matters connected with their farms. Went to examine and direct the mode of planting some Thorn hedges – but no occurrence of moment that requires to be recorded.
[small note bound in to the volume at this point reads:]
Look at the Minute Book of 1834 – the small one, and ascertain on what day John Rice was plac
Journal entry – John Grey – 20 Mar 1835
Friday 20th March
Agreed with the Tenants of Rawgreen & Turfhouse, to take the Eadsbush Allotments between them at the rent of £9…. each, the former for 15 years and the latter for 20 to correspond with the terms of their respective Farms. They taking upon themselves the repair of the Boundary Fences and such as it may needful to keep up, without expecting any allowance from the Hospital. I send the Agreements for the Boards Acceptance. That for Eadsbush has not been returned
Journal entry – John Grey – 21 Mar 1835
Saturday 21st March 1835
Rode through all the Ground in Dipton Fell that had just now been finished planting, to examine the work & see that all the pits are filled up, also to see if anything can be done to improve the Roads through the Wood by which the Timber is conveyed away, which the late wet weather has rendered in many parts almost impassable.
I received from Mr Birkett, the Incumbent of Ovingham a list of the subscribers to the Gallery to be erected in the Paris
Journal entry – John Grey – 23 Mar 1835
Monday 23rd March
Was informed by Mr Fenwick that the Assignees appointed under Johnsons Bankruptcy had signified their intention of discharging the Rent & Arrears due by him, but hoped they would have the same allowance as to time, as was given to the rest of the Tenantry. To this, I informed Mr Fenwick that I saw no objection, so long as they acknowledged their liability and were punctual in their payments - and requested that the account for which the Extent had been issued, (£116
Journal entry – John Grey – 24 Mar 1835
Tuesday 24th March
Attended a Meeting of the Road Trustees at Corbridge and proposed certain improvements which were adopted. Met Mr Parkin to determine some arrangements about the Woodlands & attended to routine business of the Office. No occurrence of importance.
Wednesday 25th March
Attended a Fair at Hexham where I met many of the Tenants, Agents of the Railway & other parties with whom I had business. The sale of Cattle was exceedingly dull & the prices low.
Journal entry – John Grey – 26 Mar 1835
Thursday 26th March
Replied to Mr Bicknells enquiries respecting the situation & description of certain portions of the Manor of Wark. Also to Mr LeJoyts queries concerning the rental of Throckley Colliery & Bone’s Arrears connected with it.
Sent Mr Hunt to measure & mark off the ground Awarded as a Limestone Quarry for the use of the Proprietors of Grindon Common at Carstones, having found that they have been working Lime Stone in the Hospitals private propert
Journal entry – John Grey – 27 Mar 1835
Friday 27th March 1835
Received a Memorial from Michael Pigg who is an old Tenant of the Hospital, with a request that I wo’d forward it to the Commissioners. The statements it contained are true. He is an industrious Man who has made a strong endeavour to get through the depressed times & is in my opinion deserving of some consideration. Was engaged with various accounts in the Office & afterwards among the Workmen in different parts of the Estates. Also with Mr Lee, the
Journal entry – John Grey – 28 Mar 1835
Saturday 28th
Sold the Lot of Wood in Hartburngrainge Banks to Mr Robert Hedley for £130. The Wood to be removed according to the usual conditions. £100 to be paid on the 31st January next, & the remainder in the Month of March 1836 - for which payments he is to give a Pro[missary] Note. This is the worst Lot of Wood I have had to do with, or hope to have again, containing a great portion of old, bad beech which will hardly repay the cost of cutting & removing. The only othe
Journal entry – John Grey – 30 Mar 1835
Monday 30th March 1835
Received the Petition of George Stokoe tenant of the Blacksmith’s Shop - Public House & ground at Whittonstall praying for an allowance of Rent for present year. His rent has been certainly high, but I fear the management of the House has not been very exemplary. Received also a List of subscribers to an improvement in the road leading from Hexham to the Shire, with a view to obtain £5 from the Hospital, which as they have a good deal of property in t
Journal entry – John Grey – 1 Apr 1835
Wednesday 1st April
Went early to Hartburngrainge, looked over the Farms and walked through the newly planted grounds - found one of the fences so insufficiently made that I caused it to be improved before being paid for. The planting is well done and the planting young Trees got from Wooler, the best we have had this season. I found that the Men who took the Coal have removed their apparatus & declined working, but not being within reach, I could not see them to ascertain the cause
Journal entry – John Grey – 4 Apr 1835
Saturday 4th
Went with my Son over the Scremerston Estates, examining the Estimates he had got for building the Stone wall by the Sea side, on the Inland Pasture Farm & the two Cottages, & agreed with the Parties whose Proposals were the most eligible. Also examined the piece of new Road, some draining in the Town Farm & the general cultivation. Was glad to find that the reduction of Rent has given a fresh stimulus to the exertions of Messrs Thomson & Hogarth, who are bu
Journal entry – John Grey – 7 Apr 1835
Tuesday 7th
Received the Rents at Belford, settled various accounts for Work and paid the balance to the Bank Agent from Alnwick as usual. The receipt was better than I expected, Mrs Thomson of Glororum having been disappointed of some money, begged for three weeks to make it up.
There is an evident improvement in the state of her farm & fences. The Agent under the Assignees of Major Johnson gave me £500, being all that the Colliery had produced, leaving me to settle
Journal entry – John Grey – 13 Apr 1835
Monday 13th
Travelled to Newcastle, not being able to see Mr Fenwick in the evening waited upon him on the morning of
Tuesday 14th
Found that he had received £55 of the Debt due by Dinning for Wood & that he had hoped of obtaining the remainder by degrees without having recourse to extreme measures.
Informed Mr Fenwick that I had received £500 from the Executors of Major Johnson, in part of Rent Arrears and learnt that he had obtained from them an undertaking f
Journal entry – John Grey – 15 Apr 1835
Wednesday 15th April
The Clerk of Deliveries returns the quantity of Ore weighed over in the Quarter ending the 1st Instant at 600 Bings, the duty Ore from which is 96 Bings. There has been yet little weather for washing Ore this season, which accounts for the smallness of the return. Had an interview with Bones the Tenant of one of the Throckley Farms respecting his quitting it at May day next, & as the time is so near at hand, communicated directly with the Secretary on th
Journal entry – John Grey – 16 Apr 1835
Thursday 16th April
Sold the Lot of Wood No. 5 in Dipton Plantation to Handcock & Son for £237.10. the money to be paid on 25th March 1836 and the Wood cut & cleaned off on the usual conditions. Received Mssrs Parker & Crawhalls return of the average value of Refined Lead for the last Quarter at £18.5. per Fother, which is a great improvement upon the price of the former year. Rode to Throckley, examined Bones’ Farm and reported upon it & Mr Stephenson’s Offer at
Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Apr 1835
Good Friday 17th
Have Frost and Snow. Received from the Moor Master the returns of the Men employed in the different Mines in the Manor of Alston. Sent Mr Hunt to execute a Warrant of Distress on Bones’ effects, & put a person in possession of them, hoping that it may put him upon finding security for his rents, rather than allow them to be brought to the hammer. Received a List of the principal Subscribers for building a Bridge near Morpeth, to which as it is on the Road le
Journal entry – John Grey – 18 Apr 1835
Saturday 18th April 1835
Set off early to Wark where I met Mr Storey the Bailiff of that district and went over with him the parcels of land & allotments described in the Draft Conveyance to the Duke which I had carried with me to compare with Plans on the spot. The descriptions seem to be all correctly given. We then proceeded five miles northward to Bellingham where I wished to examine the Glebe Land, the Incumbent having written to me expressing his Fears that the current w
Journal entry – John Grey – 20 Apr 1835
Monday 20th
Mr Forster who had been viewing the Collieries in the West in the end of last week, had an interview with the new Lessees of Brokenheugh Coal & Allerwash Lime on Saturday & got their signatures to an Agreement extended upon the conditions on which those works were proposed to be let, which Agreement he left with me to compare with their original proposal as accepted by the Board & which I forwarded along with other agreements for Farms, to Mr Fenwick, that he m
Journal entry – John Grey – 23 Apr 1835
Thursday 23rd
Returned by a morning Coach to Dilston, attended to Letters & Office business. Mr Bones of Throckley having obtained the securities which I required for the years Rent, was allowed to remove the distress from his premises & dispose of his Stock. The Lessee of Throckley Quarry having intimated by message his intention of quitting it, I applied for a written relinquishment, as I have another person ready to take it, but this he declines at present to give. On t
Journal entry – Henry Gipps to John Grey – 24 Apr 1835
Corbridge 24 April 1835.
My dear Sir
I take the liberty of requesting you to lay the following statement before the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital.
By the grant of £18 pr annum which they were kind enough to make me a year or two ago and the subscriptions of individuals a National School has been established & is at this time in full & beneficial operation in this place but the number of scholars is temporarily limited to sixty from the totally in
Journal entry – John Grey – 24 Apr 1835
Friday 24th April
Rode to Hexham to get Cash from the Bank Agent to send by Coach to the Moor Master, as Imprest, proceeded to look over the Farm of Highwood which the Tenant is to quit at May Day, who thinks it hard that he should have to pay for putting the Threshing Machine in repair. Went forward through the several Farms of Fourstones and Allerwash to look into some matters connected with the progress of the Railway & the change of Fences & Water courses in those Farms in conse
Journal entry – John Grey – 24 Apr 1835
Friday [sic; Tuesday meant] 21st April
Mr N Walker, Lessee of the Brick Kiln came to inform me that he had discovered a Seam of superior Clay for making Fire Bricks in a Field in the Hospitals Farm at Corbridge which he wished to be allowed to use in small quantities to mix with the other clay for that kind of Bricks for Fire Places etc. I agreed to allow him to dig a Pit of it, on satisfying the Tenant for any trespass and paying the Hospital £4 a year, as a consideration for the
