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‘of a Becherian society, for the promotion and organization of Friendly societies upon a permanent and advantageous
‘plan’ — Looked over (lent by Mr. William Priestley on Friday) Williams’s abstracts of the acts passed 7 and 8 George iv.
price 8/. 6ds. 8vo. [octavo] ppages 260. of course the volumes vary much in size ‘London printed for Wightman and Cramp,
24 Paternoster-row 1827’. the sort of work I want — Note from Mr. Freeman to say he will come
at ten on Tuesday morning — wrote the last 18 lines, and had just done at 3 1/2 — sat talking to M- [Mariana]
dressed — Dinner at 6 5/60 — not even soup, but had each a little cold roast neck of mutton — asleep from about 7 3/4 to
9, at which hour 1 cup coffee — came up to bed at 10 10/60 — finish day — a good deal of snow on the ground — not
frosty —
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Good one last night but find this morning that however free I have been from discharge for some
time she has brought it on again this will not do I have had pain and weight and much indigestion pain
these last two or three days told her of it gently this morning and said I must amuse myself in another way
meaning grubbling her good deal of talk of her going to Italy with me next October L [Charles Lawton] taking her
to Paris in September she and I to have Watson and a foreign manservant and post it and be six
away at least — Breakfast at 9 (M- [Mariana] did not get up till 8 1/2) — sat talking over M-’s [Mariana] friendly society rules as
compared with Becher’s till 12 20/60 — wrote the above of today — I see I shall be bad again in the discharge way
I will make up my ming [mind] to only grubble her — then asleep over my desk for a considerable time — then
wrote 3 ppages to my aunt and M- [Mariana] wrote the ends — From my dictating M- [Mariana] and I went out at 4 3/4 — walked
to Hipperholme lane ends, and got back at 5 40/60 — In returning met Captain and Mrs. Sutherland, and Miss Walker who
had been calling at Shibden hall — the 2 ladies walking — just beyond Charles Howarth’s surprised to see them alone —
the post boy had run against one of our gateposts, and was some time in getting off — (the door pannel of the carriage sadly
scratched) and the ladies had walked forward — Dressed — dinner at 6 1/4 — Coffee at 8 — π [Mariana] nervous had felt
so she said ever since morning when I told her of having discharge and that she always infected
me every time we met — my father and Marian sat with us — left M- [Mariana] to follow in 1/4 hour, and came up at 9 3/4 —
wrote the last 6 1/2 lines — Perpetual light showers of snow or rain showers during the day — fair while we were out — rather windy
towards night —
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No kiss last night but about six and a half began grubbling her did it pretty well got into bed and
lay dozing for an hour then up again at seven and a half washed and dressed Sent off my letter written yesterday by Jno. [John] about
8 1/2 to ‘Madame Madame Lister Place neuve de la Madeleine No. [Number] 2 Paris’ — 3 ppages M- [Mariana] having written
the ends and under the seal — mentioned my having told Mrs. Barlow I counted upon being back early in next month —
now think it will be quite the end of next month at the soonest — since writing last Wilkinson had agreed
about the coals — those under lease from Dr. Drake confirmed for ever, and those in Red-beck land 9 or 10 days work
sold for ever at forty pounds per dayswork but found there is a mortgage on the property in consequence of which the business
cannot be completed by the 2nd of next — it will be 5 or 6 weeks before the church business can be done — must be
here to settle these matters — must wait — my plans of course quite uncertain — will write and tell my aunt
more of them as soon as I know anything with certainty — the oak-planting done — only some hedges to plant, and some walling
to do — will let the latter, and be off as soon as I can and amuse myself somewhere or other — but after all,
may or may not get off, and my aunt to direct to me — M- [Mariana] arrived on Tuesday — in high favour with Marian — may stay a
week or only a day or 2 longer — all uncertain, and depending on Mr. Charles Lawton all paid up at the rent day but
Balmfirth and Jackman — may have some trouble with the latter — must try and get possession of his land at Candlemas —
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nothing received for coals — the parties bent upon paying only once a year — must try what we can do — not sanguine
on this point — If we stay where we are, a better room must be had for George — at all rates, my aunt can now go
and look at any apartment we think of, before taking it — had best leave my sitting room fire-place as it is, for
the present — Breakfast at 9 — sat talking till after 10 — then wrote the above of today — about 11 1/4 Jno. [John] brought me
a letter 3 ppages the ends, under the seal, and the 1st page crossed from Miss Henrietta Crompton (Esholt hall 12 January) — hears
from Miss MacLean I am still in Yorkshire but to be in London in a fortnight — nearly a fortnight since lady Herries
left them — ‘now at Bounds a place which Mr. Herries has taken for a few months near Tunbridge — they remove
into 35 Clarges Street next week’ — Sir William Herries in the Comptroller’s office from 11 to 4 every day —
Bad account of Henrietta herself — complaint entirely on her nerves — ‘the slightest agitation or excitement brings on
pain in her side’ — has ‘had nothing else for the last 3 months’ — ... ‘all the medicines (excepting opium) that
‘I have yet taken, appear to increase instead of diminishing it, and I sleep very little’ — Miss MacLean has
recommended Mr. Long — Henrietta has heard of him from a person in their neighbourhood whom he has cured, but
she herself has no consumptive symptoms — Albane writes in low spirits — wrote out Index from the 6th instant up
to last night, and wrote the last 9 1/2 lines which took me till 12 1/4 — Expected Mr. Freeman at 10 — not yet come —
came at 12 1/2 — had a couple of glasses of port, and sat with me 1 10/60 hour — very civil — would let me pay him the £2,000
or keep it as long as I liked — to fix my own time — fixed to pay on the 3rd of next month — mentioning that I had the money
ready, except what ought to have been paid for the new church land on the 1st August last, but was not paid yet, though I hoped
it would be paid this month — Mr. Freeman to come here on the 3rd February and bring the bond with him, and I would give him a check
on Rawson’s bank — much talk on one thing or other — Stocks had in the presence of Mr Adam Maude and an attorney
offered Mr Freeman from fifty up to a hundred pounds to give up to him an arbitration bond a rascally
thing Freeman said he would not do for all Stocks was worth — asked what the manor of Southowram was worth —
not much now — Mr. Freeman had stopped that — Mr. Rawson had sold stone in waste under a road, and under waste
adjoining to Mr. Freeman’s land having promised Mr. Freeman the 1st refusal — Mr. Freeman annoyed at this underhand sale,
claimed his right, and would not allow the sale — Mr. Rawson cursed and swore — Mr. Freeman said he did not care for that — one
1/2 his property and had go to take care of the other, and he would carry the thing into any court of law Mr. Rawson wished — being
so determined, Mr. Rawson begged a month to consider of it, and then gave in — very soft, when stood up to — Mr. Freeman could not
have believed him so soft — mentioned the circumstance of Mr. Rawson’s selling waste to Haigh near Marsh delves, and my
determination not to allow it to be taken in — Right, said Mr. Freeman, but Haigh a tenant of his, and he would
tell him he had better be quiet — mentioned the circumstances of the waste near Dumb mill and George Naylor’s — Mr. Freeman
said if he was in my place, he would take them in — he had taken all in near him and so had Mr. Priestley — he would give his
consent, and, if he did, everyone else in the town would consent — well, said I, then I shall take your consent — get me
that of everyone else, and I will take these bits in — well, said he, there will be no difficulty — the family at Shibden
hall has always been respected ‘I never heard anything of them but very genteel’ — He had done his best to
help both the banks during the panic — Briggs had thanked him, and said he should always remember his best friends — Rawsons had
never said a word — and Christopher after their quarrel about the waste, had often turned his back the moment he saw him enter
the bank — but he (Mr. Freeman) cared nothing about it — could have had all the Rawson deeds for twenty thousand pounds
during the panic — Christophers estate then twelve hundred a year (Mr Freeman had more than that in the town)
and he had about two thousand a year Mr Freeman had money out for as much as that did not now like
Rawsons bank as well as before and that made him put so much money out to interest — The Yew trees
quarry very bad for long — Thought to have given up getting — but now getting very good stone, and hoped it would answer —
said I did not wish him to lose by it — hoped and thought it would pay him at last — but if not, we knew one another, and
[margin text:] Between 3 and 4 thousand acres in the township of Southowram
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