| Description | Includes letters from: B Cooke, Owston (3 pieces); Richard Legard, 3 Queen Street, Brompton and London (2 pieces); Oswald Grimston, Harrow (2 pieces); 'BB'(Benjamin Blackden), Four Ashes; AS Leith, Harrow; Emma Grimston, York and Kilnwick (2 pieces); G Worsley, Stonegrave, Tatton Sykes, Sledmere; Arthur Maister, Winestead and Hull (5 pieces); John Grimston, Neswick (2 pieces); Christopher Collyer, Gunthorpe Hall; Snowdon Barne, King's Bench Walks; Ensign Leaf, 3rd West York Regt Militia, Bristol; Thomas Slingsby, Scriven; James Iveson, Hedon; William Sonley, South Cave; Robert Evans, Everton near Bawtry; William Sleeford, Doncaster (2 pieccs); Myles Sandys, Graythwaite Hall; J Peers, Thorp Arch; John Clark, Goodmanham; Henry Grimston, Kensington; William Oldfield, York; Digby Legard, Pocklington; H Porter, Hull (3 pieces); B Wardell, Sutton; William Rogerson, Garton; Thomas Grey, Stockton-on-Tees; Cornet Sherwood, Rysome Garth; George Slee, Agent General's Office; Isaac Broadley, Brantingham; Richard Jameson, Beverley; William Preston, Wold Newton; John Cayley, Harrow (2 pieces); J Cayley, Brompton (2 pieces); W Wilberforce, Sandgate; Henry Grimston, Thorp Arch; Francis Lundy, Lockington; William Sissons, Hull; Francis Constable, Wycliffe Hall, Greta Bridge; Ralph Creyke, Marton; Francis Best, South Dalton; Marquis de Villedeuil, Cherry Burton (2 pieces); Captain George W Manby, George and Dragon, Aldbrough; Thorpe and Gray, York; William Dalton, Grimston; Kath Overend, York; Secretary of State for Home Department, Whitehall; John Cliff, Beverley; Thomas Grimston to Robert Staveley, Kilnwick, William Sleeford, Doncaster andandCharles Grimston, Cambridge (2 pieces). Concerning: financial, social and family affairs; estate (including committee for Sir Thomas Legard's estates) Commission of Leonard Leaf in 3rd West York Regt Militia. 'Dreadful murderers are at last found out and secured'; political affairs; description of a rout and dance held by the Grimstons at York, (6 Feb 1812); nomination of Henry Dixon as apothecary to House of Correction, Beverley; fire at a theatre in America; further education and careers of Thomas Grimston's sons; attendance on Grand Jury, York; volunteers; servants; portrait of Sir John Dalrymple given to Mrs Myles Sandys by Thomas Grimston; assassination of Spencer Perceval, Chancellor of the Exchequer, (14 May 1812); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; horticulture; white bricks to arrive at Hedon; cost of renting chambers in the Temple; furniture ordered; hunting and shooting; Commissioners of Scarborough Piers-election of Receiver of the Duties at Newcastle; building work at (Grimston?); Sketch of arched gateway; building work at Beverley; establishment of plan for rescuing shipwrecked persons. Printed memorandum relating to bills drawn upon the Agent General. |