Various letters relating to John Grimston

DDGR/42/4

Various letters relating to John Grimston

Jan-Dec 1754

Includes letters from: Nathaniel Maister, Hull (7 pieces); W Bartlett, Stopham, near Petworth; James Ryder, London (2 pieces); B Legard, Brompton (2 pieces); Frank Beat, Wetherby (3 pieces); B Hewgill, Smeaton (5 pieces); John Bagnall, London (s); Stephen Thompson, London (4 pieces); J Creyke, London (6 pieces); S Hills, Sandbach and Peover, Cheshire (2 pieces); James Close, Lincolns Inn; William Meeke, Wighill Park; Robert Grimston, Neswick (8 pieces); Matthew Waters, Lincolns Inn (7 pieces); Thomas Whately (3 pieces); Philip Harcourt, Inner Temple, Ankerwyke and Margate (3 pieces); T Robinson, York and Welburn (3 pieces); R Seward, London (4 pieces); Lady Frankland, Dover Street, London (2 pieces); Gregory Cooper, London and Newcastle (8 pieces); John Hildyard, York (4 pieces); W Stables, York; Robert Legard, Anlahy; Fredereick Frankland, London; Mrs M Payler, London; Chaarles Allen, Maysonett, Shooter Hill, Kent; Sir Digby Legard, London and Ganton (3 pieces); Lord Irwin; A Wright, Bishop Hill; Prissilla Digby, Grange (2 pieces); Mary Cartwright, Ossington (2 pieces); Daniel Twining, London; Mary Whately, Manchester and Elsham (2 pieces); Mrs Frances Creyke, Canton; John Cheere, Hyde Park; Henry Maister. London and Hull (4 pieces); Frances Legard, Ganton; John Hudson, London (3 pieces); Francis Meeke, Bromley (2 pieces); William Whately, London; Thomas Wakefield, Rowley; W Hardwick. Clapham (2 pieces); William Markham, Hull; Thomas Turner , junior Lincolns Inn (2 pieces); Bishop of Carlisle, Hutton Bushel; John Travis, Scarborough; John West. London; John Taylor, Bridlington; Robert Dingley, London (2 pieces); Samuel Beachcroft, London; John Bowman, Beverley; Thomas. Ansell, Lincolns Inn; W Cooper, Newcastle. Concerning: financial affairs (including Admiral Medley deceased. and Walter Hardwick) Estate (building at Smeaton; Kirkby Hill (possibility of mines); and Birkby). social gossip; description of Italian operas at the Haymarket and Covent Garden and performance of Nicolina Giordani; horses; trial of Frankland versus Frankland; death of Mr Pelham 'all who love tumult, opposition, faction...will rejoice in it'; Books; assize case (relating to Burlington Pier duties ?); comparison of customs in England and France ('The French dress is much more gracefull and becoming than the English; most especially the womens head-dress, which is so very ungracefull in our country.....coach box some feet higher with us than in France..... the smallness of our coaches and the bad paving of the streets of London.... the beauty of our coach and saddle horses'); election (Scarborough ?); inoculation for smallpox; dutch organs, made by Tax (or Taxis), Mays Buildings; Sir Edward Anderson married to his maid servant-'what a Meek Good woman she is-for since she was Lady Anderson she has washed his daughters small linnen 4 months'; tea purchased from Twinings; statues purchased from John Cheere; Canterbury Cathedral 'the meanest both within and without of any I have view'd'; transfer of office in Port of London (a King's Waiter's Place); praise for town of Warwick and Lord Brooke's castle; London theatre (mentions Garrick); dried 'sea plants' from Scarborough; prints; Robert Dingley's plan for stand at York racecourse ('some alteration proposed by Mr Carr in the Salloon'); Prince of Hess has taken the Roman Catholic religion, 'I don't say turned to it for I never heard he had any before'; Lord Bolingbroke's a 'virulent invectives against the order or priesthood'; rights of hunting in Beverley area; request for recommendation to succeed Attorney General; book'against the Moravians' published by Bishop of Exeter; John Grimston wishes to acquire some coloured glass filings.

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