Various letters relating to John Grimston

DDGR/42/7

Various letters relating to John Grimston

Jan-Dec 1757

Includes letters from: Stephen Thompson, London (l0 pieces); Nathaniel Maister, Hull (9 pieces); William Wilkinson, Gibraltar; John Grimston to Simon Butterwyke. Henry Maister, Hull (15 pieces); W Hardwick, Plymouth and London (4 pieces); F Legard, York and Cranford (2 pieces); Henry Hewgill (6 pieces); John Grimston to 'Matt' (Waters?); 'WL' (William Legard ?), Doctors Commons to Barnabas Legard, York; James Ryder, Hull and 'The Hawk' (4 pieces); Sir Digby Legard, Ganton (2 pieces); Harriot Digby; W Stables; John Grimston to Mr Reed and Henry Lewis, Gibraltar, and to Major Wilkinson (copies); Thomasmpson and Seward, St Mary Hill; T Robinson; William Grove, Buckland; Thomas West. Concernning: Garrison at Gibraltar; financial affairs (including Admiral Medley decd and Walter Hardwick); election (support for Thomas Robinson); estate (Birkby and Smeaton); Mr Peirse's 'View and Tryal' relating to navigation of River Tees ('I think half the County is sommoned to attend'); raising men for navy; Henry Maister may stand as Parliamentary candidate for Hull; 'The affair at Calcutta is very bad.... -has proceeded in some measure from the imprudence of our people' (16.6.1757); copy of consent of John Grimston, as lord of manor of Kilnwick, for erection of a cottage by the churchwarden and overseer of the poor for the poor of the parish (24 May 1757); courtship of Henry Maister and Miss Cayley; description of militia riots at Brompton, Hunmanby and Birdsall (15 Sep 1757), and list of 'Rioters Indicted for High Treason'; mention of Ottringham Inclosure [Enclosure] (7 Dec 1757). Includes: notebook of John Grimston, 1757.

English

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