Various letters relating to John Grimston

DDGR/42/21

Various letters relating to John Grimston

Jan-Dec 1771

Includes letters from: R Creyk; Thomas Grimston, Barrow and London (l7 pieces); Samuel Noye, London; R Grimston, Gibraltar, Madrid, Neswick and York (4 pieces); JG London; WM Whately, Lombard Street (6 pieces); Henry Maister, Hull (3 pieces); J Stack, Hull; Andrew Mott, 'Kennington', Granada and Carlisle Bay (2 pieces); G Robinson, Welburn; John Graves, York (9 pieces); Margaret Grimston, York; Reverend Henry Hewgill, Hornby Grange near Northallerton; William Anderson, Kilnwick (4 pieces); Jane Grimston, York (5 pieces); Beachcroft, Seward and West London (2 pieces); Nathaniel Maister, Hull (5 pieces); M Appleton, Beverley; C Robinson, Beverley; Robert Hildyard, Winestead, York and Harrogate (8 pieces); M Remington, Beverley (3 pieces); Edwardwd Cottrell, Scarborough, London and York (5 pieces); John Grimston to Reverend Terrett, Bainton (copy); William Bailey, London; Francis Legard, York (6 pieces); W Stables, York and Scarborough (10 pieces); 'HD'(Henry Doncombe), Copgrove (2 pieces); D Legard, Ganton and London (6 pieces); J Stone, Bream's Buildings; John Taylor, Bridlington (2 pieces); J Gilpin, Knightsbridge; Phil Langdale, Houston; Francis Hart jnr., Nottingham; James Hopwood, Weighton; Dorothy Wright, Half Moon, Low Harrogate and Acomb (3 pieces); R Sumner, Harrow; Road Pallok, London; Henryy Thornton, Dominica; Thomas Collingwood, Foundling Hospital, London; Roger Gee, Wighill near Tadcaster; John Outram, Burton Agnes; G Crampton, Harrow (2 pieces); John Boydell, Cheapside; Mrs Appleton (2 pieces); W Wardell, Kilnwick; S Mills, Norbury (2 pieces); Joseph Fallowfield, Beverley; Edward Elwick, Wakefield (2 pieces); Richard Rennards, Hull; William J Jolliff, Nunmonkton; L B Barnard, South Cave (4 pieces); John Parsons, York; Henry Newton, 'Lizard', Spithead; Isaac Broadley, Hull; Henry Grimston, Cheam; William Gilpin, Cheam (2 pieces); John Croft, Beverley; Mathew C St Quintin, York (2 pieces); Gregory Cooper, Treasury Chambers; Benjamin Heath, Eton and Harrow (2 pieces); Samuel Parr, Harrow; John Carr, York; A Hunter, York (2 pieces); Christopher Scott, Aldbrough; B Foord, York; William Denison, Beverley; Thomas Wilson; P Panton, Plas Gwyn; Pennington, Warter Hall; Lord Scarborough, Sandbeck; J Arden, Beverley; Arthur Maister, Hull; R Legard, Chiswick; William Dickinson, Scarborough; John Kilvington, London; F Best, Beverley (2 pieces). Concerning: account for 'Exercising Chair' purchased from John Watts and a bag-wig from Samuel Noye, (Feb 71); death of Robert Grimston's wife in Gibraltar; Inclosure [Enclosure] of Myton Carr; payments of duty on a carriage and lOOO oz silver plate overdue; new street to be opened in Hull from Trinity House Lane into Fish Street, (24 Mar 1771); social, financial and family affairs; estate (Birkby; Kilnwiok; Neswick); King of Spain has called Gibraltar 'the Best Jewell in the King of England's Crown....'; Bond for £1000 (23 Dec 1751) Parties: 1) John Grimston 2) Ann Wright of Kilnwick Payment of annuity of £50 for maintenance of self and daughter Dorothy, and payment of £300 to Ann Wright at age of 18 years Dated: l5 Apr 1771. Woodward and Weston to appear at York theatre; shooting for 'The Arrow' at Harrow School; fire near Henry Maister's house, Hull, (18 May 1771); drain to be made at Neswick (20 May 1771) (Agricultural) Society, bounties for improvements to cranes; Switzerland Wheat; Siberian Barley; Mr Carr gone to France, the mouldings for the chimney pieces have not arrived, (30 May 1771); swans; Robert Grimston's opinion of Spain and the Spaniards; election of Registrar for East Riding; picture of Fox and Dogs, by John Gilpin; estimate for building (Market) Weighton Bridge, (14 Jul 1771); account for candles; proposed colour of John Grimston's chaise; collectorship of Port of Roseau, Dominica; Augustus Caesar, apprenticed to William Long of Bell Mill, Skerne, papermaker, has been admitted to the Foundling Hospital, London 'in a very poor condition'. (22 Jul 1771); shortage of bricks; curious 'Trumpet Fish' from St Helena; request for sketch of John Grimston's icehouse; list of 'Objects for the Microscope given me by Mr Arden Aug 22 1771, collected at Plymouth' (fish scales, animal fur, et cetera); prints; re-marriage of Robert Grimston; India paperhanginga and pictures; Minorca honey; Mr Pieraon's school at Coxwold; death of Dr Sumner, headmaster of Harrow School; The Pantheon (London) to be opened in 6 weeks ('the highest finished and most elegant building I ever saw'; and The Adelphi-'several houses already inhabited', (26 Sep 1771); riots at Harrow School over appointment of new headmaster; new school opened at Stanmore by Samuel Parr, formerly of Harrow, (Oct 177l); marble fireplace sent to Kilnwick by John Carr, (8 Oct 1771) East Newton inclosure [enclosure]; Carr's alterations to 'the old House at Ledbury'; draining tools; volume of essays on agriculture; Act relating to killing conies at night; gamekeepers for manors of Tibthorpe and North Dalton; plan of a house; account for telescope; plan-'Demention for a floor cloth....at Kilnwick'.

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