| Description | Includes notes on trees and timber, 'to tan fishing netts', building dry walls, ;Mr Carr's allowance to bricklayers 1783', notes on building of House of Correction at Northallerton, William Strickland comments on an 8 foot tall man on show at York named Patrick Cotter O'Bryan or Byrne from Duncannon in County Tyrone 2 Aug 1781 and Summer 1801, coal at Rotherham, 'covering for buildings, roofs to impenetrable to wet', 'in laying floors of plaster', 'cements used for mending and joining the stonework in York Minster', distance of places on the coast of Holderness from the sea 1786-1806. |