| Description | Includes letters from: Jos[?] R Pease, Hull; W T Potchet, Easington; C Keld and Thomas Terry, Beverley; Thomas Dorrington, Beverley; William Wardell, Beverley (4 pieces); Richard Legard; J Gilby, Cherry Burton; William Gray, York (3 pieces); John Todd, York; Robert Denison, Kilnwick Percy; Richard Cayley, Brompton; JG Osbaldeston, Hunmanby; Tatton Sykes, Hull; W Grimston, Eton; William Rogerson. Garton; Thomas Legard, Start Signal Station, near Kingsbridge (3 pieces); Medley S Grimston, Eton; Digby Legard, Brighton Camp; Benjamin Blackden, Hanover Square; John Lockwood, Beverley; Robert Wilson, Patrington; Thomas Scott, Beverley; John Legard, Storra, and Etton (2 pieces); W Cross, Beverley; W Chate. Concerning: Treasurer of Driffield Navigation; horse tax; hunting; drainage (mentions Lund); Thomas Grimston's sons visiting Richard Legard ('they say they must see the Beasts, some young Elephants newly arrived from Ceylon our new Conquest'); social and family affairs. Estate. Financial matters; 'Here (York) we are obliged to pay some cash along with the Bank of England paper to make it go down. I trust they will keep their value', (4 Mar 1796); servant; volunteers; death of George Legard; letters from Thomas Grimston's sons at Eton ('most of our money we have spent in tea things for if we do not have tea they only allow us a mouthful of milk and a halfpenny rod'; boy shot off his hand, later amputated by the surgeon); electrical treatment ('...how they treated Mrs Legard of Beverley under the Weakness of sight with which she was troubled was it not by drawing the electric (thred ?) thro the eyes by the means of a feather.' (11 Oct 1796); meetings for enrolments to Navy and relating to supplementary militia; horses for use of volunteers and Thomas Legard's 'insanity and consequent ruin'. |