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Monday 23rd
Received the Boards Minutes. Communicated to Mr Bainbridge their decision respecting the Crow Coal & the Order for postponing the sale of the small Tithes at Eshgill, valued at £10 for which I fear, that acting upon a firmer direction, he may have proceeded to prepare a conveyance. Informed Messrs Murray that their Estimate for refitting the Mill at Allerwash is accepted. Wrote to Mr Forster giving him a copy of Messrs Heslop & Co’s additional offer for Allerwash Lime as accepted by the Board, requesting him to prepare an Agreement for the parties, & to give me previous notice of the time of his coming up, that I may appoint a meeting with them.
I had appointed to go to the Farm of Lees today, 12 Miles Westward, to set out a new line of Road to the Farm offices through a part of the Fields, the present one being both bad and most inconveniently laid; & in making which it will be necessary to give the tenant some assistance. The day however was so excessively stormy as to render it impossible to stand out of doors, or do any work of that kind to good purpose. Towards evening when the Storm abated, I went round the Tyne banks, the river being in a high Flood & in some places finding its way into the Fields. It is receding however without doing much damage. I observed several Trees on the Sandy shore of the River, blown down by the violence of the Storm, & and a great piece of the roofing at the new town Farm, laid bare & the Slates broken to pieces. It is a new building & if the Work had been well done, this should hardly have happened.
