| Description | Includes references to Harry having gone to Lincolnshire where a party of them were hunting and having prodigious fine sport with both the harriers and Foxhounds; spirits now being sold at 9/ a Gall[o]n; the farmers in Holderness being afraid of setting a price for Wheat and Bales, thinking that it will be doubled [before] long; paynig 6/9d a Bush[e]ll for their family wheat and preferring to buy it so rather than ordering it out of holderness it is there, in general, so bad and seldom sweet; indifferent oates now selling for 20/ a [Qr] and bought up as fast as the farmers thresh them; fancying Grimston will be better buying nearer home; all tenants there having paid their rent to Mich[elma]s last except P-le and telling Thomas if he wants to know what he is about, to come and see |