| Description | Includes letters from: F Boynton, Cherry Burton (6 pieces); B Foord, Heslerton; James Norcliffe, Langton; James Metcalfe, 52 Strand; H Duncombe, Copgrove; Josuaih Grove, New Inn (2 pieces); W St Quintin, Scampston; John Kilvington, Lincoln's Inn (3 pieces); J Parsons, Oxford; J Fountayne, York (2 pieces); George Overend, Fangfoss (3 pieces); Sir J Pennington, Warter (6 pieces); William Anderson, Kilnwick (3 pieces); Edward Elwick, Wakefield (3 pieces); Robert Hildyard, Stratton Street and Winestead (3 pieces); W Dealtry, Helmsley; W Welfitt, Welton; Robert Grimston, Neswick and Barley Street (3 pieces); G Etherington, Driffield (2 pieces); Robert Harriaon, Etton; P Panton, Holywell (3 pieces); S Mills, Norbury; John Graves, York (7 pieces); William Strickland, York; Thomas Knowlton (2 pieces); C K(eld?), Beverley; William Whately, London (2 pieces); Francis Meeke, Wrotham, near Seven Oaks [Sevenoaks], Kent; George Watson, Old Malton (2 pieces); J Sykes, Hull; Henry Maister, Hull and London (3 pieces); W Burgh, York; Robert Evans, Londesborough; Anthony Calvert, Birkby (3 pieces); William Cayley, Driffield; Arthur Maister, Hull (4 pieces); William Clayton, Governor of York Castle; Jane Legard, Ganton (2 pieces); Bettina Nasichi, Venezia (to Thomas Grimston?, J Sampson, Beverley; John Mackley, Beverley; Captain Marshall, Hedon; William Warner, Foston; H Robinson, Ripon; Mathew C St Quintin, York (2 pieces); R Crowle, Fryston Hall; Andw Mott, Saumur; Beachcroft, Seward and West, London; John Legard, Northampton (3 pieces); C Morison, Rome; Richard Clark, York; G Legard, Cox Heath; (Thomas Grimston), Paris to 'Ma chere' (draft); Bishop of Clogher, York; W Waugh, York; Comte de Mattzan, Albermarle; G Swan, York; Gregory Cooper, Parliament Street; James Collins jnr., Knaresborough; W St Quintin, Lowthorpe and Scampston (2 pieces); Dr Johnston, Beverley; Thomas Preston, Hotham; Tattingley, Hotham; John Hay, York; James Bland, Beverley; Major Hewett, Hull; H Jubb, York; G Gale, Cottingham; R Lowndea; JR Beverley. Concerning: American war; social and financial affairs; matters arising from John Grimston's duties as a magistrate (Poor Law, bastardy, highways, poaching, etc); account for prints et ceter; trial of Admiral Keppel ('that wicked Plan of altering the Log Book has been detected') (16 Jan 1779; 29 Jan 1779); 'effigy of Sir Hugh is to be hung upon the yardarm of the Tender and afterwards burnt on the Quays (13 Feb 1779) candidate for Clinical Professorship, established by Lord Litchfield at Oxford; 'There are 40 houses in Driffields Ambo belonging to the Liberty (of St Peter, York)....3 quarters of the Parish are in the Liberty... .Mr Mason our Precentor as Prebendary of Driffield has a power to hold a Court there as Lord of the Manor', (21 Jan 1779); John Grimston wishes to acquire the manuscripts of Mr Darley from his widow, for their preservation ('Mr Darley valued his manuscripts at £500'), (Jan-Feb 1779); Edward Elwick to furnish house near Hartlepool, property of Mr Tempest of Brancepeth Castle near Durham; and Rise (Park ?) ('many different pieces of Needlework and tapestry in one Drawing Room...... the ornaments about the chimney glass and Girondoles...are from the Vatican Galary... A great deal of very Elegant furniture has been finished this year'), (28 Jan 1779); Kilnwick Lane and roads around Warter and Kilnwick in poor condition ''cannot get to Kexby for coals'); road through Warter fields to be altered, (28 Jan 1779; 15 May 1779); extract from letter of a midshipman giving account of his reconnoitring the French fleet off Rhode Island under orders of Lord Howe, subsequently being made up to lieutenant, (11 Feb 1779); conditions laid down at inclosure of Barmby Moor relating to hedges and ditches on turnpike roads; foreign woods, required by Edward Elwick, from Amsterdam 'cannot be got over here...I can't get it sent to Portugal for it must go there before it can be brought into England'; furniture from house called Kirbey over Carr, near Malton, property of Waller Nisbet, to be sold; plan for a new Corn Bill; Benjamin Wykes alias Wych, a hawker 'supposed to belong to a Notorious Gang of Churchbreakers and Shoplifters' now in York City Gaol; Militia to be increased ('never was there a time when old England was so precariously situated'); offer of estate at Rotsea; £200 ordered to be spent on York-Scarborough turnpike at Norton; portrait shipped from Italy; George Legard's commission; prices of commissions in the proposed new corps; servants; Sir Charles Hardy's fleet at Spithead consists of '44 sail of the line (including 3 of 50 guns)', (6 Sep 1779); William Bateman, blacksmith not allowed to open a public house in Hotham ('such Immorality and evil... likely to promote his own Ruin and that of many others'); estimates for engraving (a portrait ?) by Mr Sherwin and Mr Walker; land north of the dock in Hull required for use by the Pioneers; meeting at York to petition House of Commons concerning public expenditure; letter from G Gale, Cottingham - excellent example of handwriting, (3 Dec 1779); inventory of silver plate at Kilnwick; 'Minutes for Mr T G's (Marriage) Settlement.' (Birkby, Smeaton, Lovesome Hill, Rotsea); Irish trade bills. |