Various letters relating to John Grimston

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Various letters relating to John Grimston

Jan-Dec 1753

Includes letters from: William Crowle, Pump Court, Temple; James Close, Lincolns Jan-Dec 1753 Inn (5 pieces); Nathaniel Maister, Hull A Winestead (20 pieces); W[?] Stables, York; Anthony Hatfeild, Laughton (2 pieces); Stephen Thompson, London and Tunbridge Wells (6 pieces); Richard Seward, London (3 pieces); J[?] Creyke, London (5 pieces); Harriot Digby, Grange (2 pieces); Frances Legard, Canton (4 pieces); S[?] Mills, Peover, Cheshire (3 pieces); Robert Grimston, Burlington, London and Neswick (6 pieces); H[?] Stephenson; Paul Panton, London; Richard Jackson, Richard's Coffee House; Philip Harcourt, Ankerwyke and Margate (5 pieces); G[?] Cooper, London (4 pieces); William Grove, London (2 pieces); Charles Allen; Priss[?] Digby, Grange (2 pieces); J[?] Ryder, London (4 pieces); William Wilkinson; B[?] Legard, Brompton (2 pieces); T[?] Robinson, Beckhouse (2 pieces); Mrs M Payler, London (7 pieces); HW Osbaldeston, Hunmanby; Mrs Frances Creyke, York (5 pieces); Lord Irwin; George Overend, London; T Whately, junior, Essex Court; Robert Legard, Anlaby (4 pieces); H Hewgill, Smeaton (?); Ann Wright; Matthew Waters, Paper Buildings, Lincolns Inn and Walls End (10 pieces); Miss Bowes, York; James Bensley, Marks Lane near Crutched Friars, London; Frank Best, Wetherby (6 pieces); James Howe, Leghorn (2 pieces); William Beard, Newcastle; W Hardwick, King's Bench; Robert Thorley, Hull; Robert Dingley, London (3 pieces); John Porter, Willerby; John West, London (4 pieces); T Cay ley, Cambridge; John Bagnall, Donnington (4 pieces); William Thompson, Humbleton; Edmond Strange, Rochester; John Kilvington, Acomb; Thomas Bromwick, London (2 pieces); M Clerkson, London; George Reynoldson, York; Lucy Digby, Grange; Messrs Caylas Slier ? freres Cabanes and Company, Cadiz (extract only); John Graves, York; John Roubel; Thomas West, London; J[?] Gosset; Thomas Turner, jnr, Lincolns Inn; John Lister, Pontefract; William Markham, Hull; Miss D Cartwright, Ossington; John Hildyard, York; Sir Digby Legard, Paris; EM Ellerker; Christopher Legard, Smeeth; H Duncombe, Settrington; Charles Eyre; Charles Cottrell, York. Concerning: estate (Ravensworth, Smeaton, Birkby); financial affairs (including Admiral Medley, deceased and Walter Hardwick); cattle distemper in Hull area; social gossip; John Grimston's courtship; price of sugar; request for assistance in buying a ship; robberies on the highway are very frequent; theatre ('Prologue spoke by Garrick with more comic Humour than any Actor ever shewed in the same Number of Lincs.[Lincolnshire]') Frank Best wishes to acquire living of Adlingfleet; A London sadler is 'going over to Paris with a great Number of Horses for the French King whose first Equerry.... came to spend part of the Winter....here in London with Mr Clay.' Support of 'cozen Laughton' at Laughton; congratulations on marriage of John Grimston; 'Lord Granville aged 60 and upward is married to Lady Julia Collier... in high beauty aged 17 years'; 'Banqueting House White Hall is fixed on for a repository for the Sloanian Coltiman and Harlegan Collections which are to be purchased by means of the interseded Lottery'; William Maister to go to St.Petersburg to enter into partnership with Messrs Allan and Shairp; wallpapers for Kilnwick made by Thomas Bromwick; John Grimston possible election candidate for Scarborough, to replace Gan. Handasyde; disputes over 'the Jew Bill': '...reflections on the marriage; the King spends his time off on the water to Richmond one night he met the Princess of Wales and all her children in a Barge....he stayd upon the water till 12 '; 'Dick Crowle has been parading the town (Hull) all this last week, by his Acct, none have refused him their votes'; earthquake felt 'some months ago' at Peover near Knutsford, Cheshire (4 Aug 1753); margate is 'a sorry fishing town.....the third year of Gaiety here... as to our Company it is execrable, such as High-Holborn, Smithfield, Thames Street and Morefields afford us, Tallow- chandlers and Soapboilers.......Ale wives from Billingsgate A Old-Cloaths Brokers from Rag-Fair....'; method of fixing locks on doors at Kilnwick; no new discoveries made at Herculaneum; customs of 'South Country servants' are'too much different to be agreeable'; description of Duke of Bolton's house near the Thames-'.. .none but Inigo Jones could have formed the uprights and yett the inside is far beyond him....'-and Inigo Jones' own villa; automatic figure of Bacchus seen in Marseilles 'seven feet high....made to speak...'; York Race week; picture frames; birth of son to John and Jane Grimston; details of books available from John Hildyard; fees for attendance at childbirth; and recipe for balm drops.

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