Journal entry – John Grey – 10 Mar 1835

Tuesday 10th March



Had another meeting with Mr Isaac Johnson about the Lot of Wood No.5 in Newlands Park Wood.  He formerly only offered £220 but today, getting him up to £240, I thought it well to let him have it.   It is a fair price in these times.  He is to be allowed until the 20th March 1836 to cut & remove it, giving the joint promissory Note of Mr Burnett of Ovington and himself for payment of the whole sum at that time.   Made up the Estimates for the present year & forwarded them to the Board with a Letter to the Secretary.  The weather being again very rough & a covering of Snow on the Ground, I rode no further from home than to see the work at the Embankment, which proceeds more slowly than I could wish, owing to the excessive winds & the direct exposure of the situation to the winds from the West & the lash from the Water. I expected to have seen the Tenants of Rawgreen & Turfhouse today, to settle the Terms on which they were to have the Eadsbush Allotments & Stints, but hear that they are employed in digging out their Sheep that were drifted up in last nights storm of Snow.