Wednesday 14 June 1837
Very fine morning Fahrenheit 64 at 8 35/60 and went out – about at the top of the tower
Breakfast at 9 5/60 to 9 1/2 then all the morning till with John siding and sweeping at the beer cellars and moving the beer, and altering the gantry, and putting plate chest into business room (late upper buttery) and moving cowslip wine into hall ante-cellar
Sent off by John Booth this afternoon, went with Zebedee and 2 horse cart for gas tar.
Note to ‘Mr. Mackean Yorkshire District Bank Halifax’ for £50 for this and order payable to Messrs. Robert Harrison and Co. at Leeds £31.3.11 and enclosed check no. 130 dated today for £81.3.11
Out at 1 3/4 till came in at 7 10/60 – at the meer with Mawson and Robert Mann and Co. - ordering what stuff Mawson should tar for strengthening the embankment – is moving (he says) at the rate of 60 yards a day and will have done next week – so much the better
Robert and Co. taking up oaks from where Mawson is to dig and replanting them and finishing up about the new clow house and getting 13 stone posts over the brook that Zebedee brought by the Godley turnpike and James Smiths into Tilley holme – got the posts into Charles Howarth’s acre field for soiling off with
In the garden about an hour from 3 3/4 to 4 3/4 – there will be 7 or 8 hundred yards of stuff to cart from there – Zebedee went for gas tar after 5 p.m., and brought 2 loads of bricks in the morning Frank carting bricks all the day – talked to Robert about the platform stuff moving – will undertake it at per yard cube 3d [threepence] getting and filling and 4d [fourpence] carting = 7d [sevenpence] and will undertake the garden stuff in front of the house at 4d [fourpence] getting and filling and 4d [fourpence] carting = 8d [eight pence]
The tower roof wood-work up today – began getting it up yesterday and finished it by noon today
Came in at 7 10/60 – dinner at 7 20/60 – Ann had a bad headache and I slept in my chair till roused to speak to Matthew Booth Shoemaker – came about grass in Walsh land – would not let or sell – but gave him liberty to cut a little close under the walk along the newbank where we are going to take off the sod for the platform – very civil to Matthew – had him in and he had beer – will not vote again for the whigs
Coffee at 9 40/60 sat reading last night’s and tonight’s papers till 10 50/60 at which hour Fahrenheit 50 - very fine day
Wrote the last 18 lines till 11 5/60 p.m.
John brought me back the money this afternoon from the bank
Ann wrote note for me tonight for little John Booth to take early in the morning to Mr. Samuel Washington to come tomorrow if he can to settle with Mawson about the meer and roads
Baldwin came this morning and began slating wash-house
I say little but am perfectly civil take no particular notice of Ann all wrong yet – she is a dull companion and I get tired.
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