| Description | Includes letters from: Henry B Barnard, South Cave; William Wardell (2 pieces); Thomas Armstrong, Springhouse; William Bethell, Rise; Craven Dodsworth, Scarborough; Benjamin Blackden, Cannock (3 pieces); G Gardiner, Dover Street; Thomas Dorrington, Hull; William Vaughan, St James's (4 pieces); R Legard (2 pieces); J Iveson, Hedon; Gray and Thorpe, York; William Raines, Wyton (2 pieces); Jermy Dixon, N Laith and Near Kendal (2 pieces); Despd.[?] Croasdaile, Putteney St (4 pieces); Mr McQueen, Neswick (2 pieces); William Rogerson; Tatton Sykes, Sledmere; William Cross, Beverley; Duke of Leeds, Grosvenor Square; Thomas and Robert Boyes, Hull (2 pieces); Richard Erskine, York (3 pieces); Robert Hustwick, Hull. Thomas Frost, Hull; M Lewis, War Office; John Lockwood, Beverley (2 pieces); Henry Grimston, Sunderlandwick; Emma Grimston, Beverley; Richard Adams; John Hudson, Lockington; Mathew Powell and Company, London; Duke of Portland, Whitehall; Thomas Legard, 'Royal William', Spithead; Gordon Denner and Company, London; Miles Smith, Ross Hall; Sir John Sinclair, Edinburgh; John Legard, Farnley; William Gray, York; MS Grimston, Cheam; Walter Grimston, Cheam. Concerning: request for opinion of Cheam School; estate, financial and legal affairs; purchase of livestock; hunting; Treasurer to Scarborough Pier Company; 'Are the late inhabitants (of Sunderlandwick) as well pleased with America as at first?' (Miles Smith andandwife Jane, nee Legard ?), (4 Feb 1795); social gossip; volunteers (uniform and equipment; sergeants; tuition of trumpeter; exercise; obtaining trumpet and bugle); bequest to be paid to William Evans 'to be found at the Dog and Duck, Beverley'; wine; notice of meeting to consider increasing strength of company commanded by Capt John Pitts at Bridlington Quay; Captain Scharck to examine Humber and north coasts and to consider their defence, (4 Apr 1795); General Scott to view Holdemess coast, (16 Apr 1795); American quails, apple trees (New Town Pippins), cedar pails and nuts received from New York on board 'The Fair American' ('6 weeks from New York to Ireland'), '..all the fire articles of attack may be had from Sheffield unless that town like the Dutch at Bergen-ap-zoom would rather supply the enemy', (13 May 1795); Justices to meet in pursuance of Act for levying certain able bodied and idle persons to serve in HM Navy; scarcity of corn; painting copied from an engraving (of arms ?); Lockington Poor House, (1 Jul 1795); denunciation of Chatham family and tax on (hair) powder (8 Mar 1795). |