| Description | Includes letters from: John Lockwood, Beverley (4 pieces); Jonathan Dixon, Humbleton; Richard Erskine, York (2 pieces; William Mosey, Lund (2 pieces); Math Powell, London; Duke of Leeds, St James' Square (2 pieces); William Strickland, York; William Rogerson, Garton; Digby Legard, Lewes; Thomas Dorrington, Hull; Gray and Thorpe, York (2 pieces); Thomas Frost, Hull; W Grimston, Eton (2 pieces); William Dealtry, Wigginton; John Robinson, Rotherham; William(lrwin ?), Beverley; E Topham, Wold Cottage; Thomas Legard, Brookhouse, Clapton; Wormald, Fountaine, and Ett, Leeds; William John Darly, Beverley; Robert Hustwick, Hull; Medley Sylvester Grimston, Eton (2 pieces); Thomas Pearson, Doncaster; John Cayley, Naburn; H Osborne, Bordesley, near Birmingham; John Courtney, Beverley. Concerning: volunteers (horses; farrier; equipment and uniform); certificate of baptism of Thomas Stephenson of Kilnwick; financial affairs; apples and nuts received at Liverpool from 'Our Friend Smith'; insanity of Thomas and William Legard; hunting; letters from Thomas Grimston's sons at Eton ('the boy who had his hand cut off.. .had got an iron hand or a cork and wood one' Expenses of journey to Eton.); Thomas Legard placed in a madhouse by his relations, alternatively he must leave the country; appointment of schoolmaster and clerk of Kilnwick; repair of a chaise and servants. |