| Description | Includes references to having been with Mr Barry, who has promised to pay the money that he was indebted to his servant upon a proper discharge being given, which he will get his Bro[the]r to write who is an Attorney; sending it to the recipient to have it signed by the proper people in trust for the Widow; Mr Barry saying that he owes three quarter of a year's wages but there is an Apothecary's note to be deducted; having sent the dogs to be taught; the meeting at Brough being put off and having sent the asses skin by the driver. Also includes note in a different hand (Nathaniel Maister's?) which include references to the recipient's Tenant Gunby having paid his last Ladyday rent; Gunby wants the recipient to examine his writings relating to the Close he rents to see if the recipient has any right upon the Growths/the ground thrown up by the Humber; the late tenant Anderson used to stock in right of that Close but the rest who used to stock with Anderson won't allow it as his Close is not in the same Lordship as theirs; this being what the writer had gathered from Gunby who is "stupid and very deaf" and not being able to get fishing tackle there except for Whales, it possibly being available at York |