| Description | Includes letters from: W Head, Newbury; Robert Hildyard, Winestead and Harrogate (7 pieces); LB Barnard, Chancery Lane (2 pieces); A Hunter (2 pieces); William Warner, Foston; William Whately, Lombard Street (2 pieces); Francis Best, Walthamstow (2 pieces); Edward Elwick, Wakefield (7 pieces); Nathaniel Maister, Hull (3 pieces); W Stables, York (9 pieces); H Ditmas, Hull; Thomas Grimston, Harrow (16 pieces); Jane Grimston, York and Burlington Quay (5 pieces); Charles Pool, Hull; William Evers, Swillington; Henry Maister, Hull (7 pieces); Henry Grimston, Cheam and Harrow (3 pieces); P Panton, Holywell and Plas Gwyn (3 pieces); Michael Ake, Garton; Francis Legard, York (a pieces); John Graves, York (3 pieces); B Foord, Heslerton; T Mart jnr., Nottingham; D Legard, Ganton and Scarborough (10 pieces); Arthur Maister, Hull (6 pieces); John Grimston to Arthur Maister; Edwardwd Cottrell, London and Scarborough (2 pieces); Robert C Broadley, Hull; Robert Grimston, Neswick, Paris and York (5 pieces); Charles Hotham, Spring Garden; H Duncombe; William St Quintin, Scampston; William Denison, London; John Telson, York; M Sykes, Beverley; Robert Midgley, Lockington (2 pieces); Margaret Grimston, York; Richard Edwards, Eton; John Grimston (son of Margaret G); Charles Blake, Cross Guns, Stretton Lane; Benjamin Heath, Harrow; Dorothy Wright, York (2 pieces); George Grant jnr., Beverley; W Powell, Lombard Street; G Crampton, Harrow (3 pieces); E Hawksworth, Hawksworth (2 pieces); Henry Digby; William Mosey, Kilnwick (2 pieces); W Kempe, Carey Street (3 pieces); M Stow, York (2 pieces); Richard Rennards, Hull; William Evers, Swillington; C Robinson, Beverley: Thomas Fentham, London; Rowld Winn, Nostell; Mathew C St Quintin, York (7 pieces); M Tobin, Leeds; J Stone, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane; S Mills, Norbury; Richmond Blamire, London; James Ryder, Red Man's Row, Near Mile End Green, London (2 pieces); T Hooke, Birkby; Greg Cooper, Windsor Castle; Richard Phillips, Bracken; G Strickland, Boynton; Phil Langdale; Thomas Peirse, Peiraeburgh, near Northallerton; William Rigge and son, Hawkshead (2 pieces); John Kilvington, Chancery Lane (2 pieces); Thomas Lamplugh, Copgrove (2 pieces); Frances (Fanny) Grimston, Scarborough and York (2 pieces); Francis Boynton, Cherry Burton; Cal[?] Marshall; Rodolph Valltravers, Somerset Chapel, London (2 pieces); Beachcroft, Seward and West, London (2 pieces); John Robinson, Treasury Chambers; Robert Duesbery, Scarborough: J Pennington, Warter Hall; W Parker, Piccadilly; James Smith, Hull; William Kelsall. Concerning: financial, social and family affairs; gamekeepers for manors of Tibthorpe and North Dalton; draining tools; subscription for lunatic asylum; volume of essays on agriculture; apples (Nonpareils and Golden pippins) and 'Mr Peto's best Colchester Oysters' sent from London; furniture and interior decorations at Kilnwick Hall (Elwick); mourning for the Princess-Dowager; proposed bridges at Wawne Ferry and Stoneferry and turnpike road in Sutton area, (Feb 72); account for 'Ash Machine with a fine screen in it'; estate (Lockington; Birkby; Rotsea); Smallpox in York; candles; petition of William Frier of Tibthorpe, late servant of John Harison of Tibthorpe :- for discharge from York Castle where he is imprisoned for poaching, (19 Mar 1772) work and improvements at Ganton Hall; E Elwick to carry out work for Samuel Buck, one of the Masters in Chancery; Mr Shafftoe; and Wharton Emerson, (4 Apr 1772); 'The Driffield Song' (as DDGR/38/31 and DDBM/33/35 ?) (3 Apr 1772) 'The most genteel agreeable divorce....of Goulet the jeweller and his wife.....according to the Prussian Code'; Shooting for'The Arrow' at Harrow School; 'Tilted Walks' at Vauxhall; new road (Kilnwick area); John (Jack) Grimston, son of Margaret Grimston, to leave Eton School-'the Army is the only thing he is fit for, with his indolent disposition', (16 May 1772); new courts and Grand Jury Room (York) built to 'a Plan of Carr's approv'd by so many good Judges', (25 May 1772); Beverley election (Sir Griffith Boynton accused of bribery by Major Tuffnell), (25 May 1772); prices of corn and flour machines and grinding mills, (14 Jul 1772); illness of Frances, daughter of John Grimston; paintings; sea bathing at Bridlington and Scarborough; mortice rising hinges; Hull land waiters; Driffield (Hunt?) Room ready for the painters (6 Sep 1772); 'Numerous Bankruptcies of late..... in London and elsewhere'; 16 tons of slate shipped to Hull for John Grimston by order of John Carr; hunting and hounds; 3 volumes of a 'florentine ornithology' sent from Florence. Poaching; wine. |