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 other customer I had for it, offered £105 & would not advance.  Rode over to the Shire to examine some matters, examined the effect of draining in a very boggy Field at Wooley which has been made nearly quite dry, is ploughed and sown with Oats, explored on foot the Woods on the steep Banks of Devils Water on that Estate, a part of which I had never before traversed, and returned through Dipton & Snokoe Plantations where we have this day finished planting.