| Description | Includes references to a meeting to consider the most proper means to obtain a Commission of Sewers; the decision to publicly advertise in two papers a meeting of the Land-Owners; the decision to defer it until the next summer and hope to become more acquainted with the Laws of the Commission and the propoer steps to obtain it; having been obliged to submit to the B[isho]p of Durham's terms and accept his allowance of half the Land Tax but not until he had Mr Norton's opinion by means of their friend G Hartley; it having been Mr Norton's own case some time ago, him having an Estate near Rip[p]on out of which he paid a small out Rent to the Dean and Chapter and had the Land Tax allowed in full; having followed the Bishops or some such illustrious example determined for the future to allow only half; Grimston's position; Grimston having paid Hewgill Mr Peirse's Bill; the situation of many of Grimston's Tennants there being very bad because of the late high wind and he has persuaded them to patch things up until they saw Grimston, except for Phillips, the roofs of whose house and barn are entirely strip[pe]d and the walls very much shaken; he had sent two workmen who said that the timber was so weak and rotten that no covering could be made to stand any high wind and that the walls of the Barn particularly could not be supported without Buttresses and new timber; having order[e]d wood from Mr Peirse and set Carpenters to work to line the Timber that would bear it and replace the rest; it being a pity to cover it at this time with Thatch as Tyles are only 40 shillings a Thousand so he has ordered a Tyle covering, the straw yearly consumed in Thatch taking so much compost from the ground; Kelsey, Wilkinson, Foggey and Cussans being all very clamorous; an increase in Grimston's family; his horses and hounds not yet being fit to start and him having removed to the town of Smeaton to his Batchelor House |