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Tuesday 21st Left Millfield Hill in the morning, accompanied by my eldest Son, to assist me in receiving the Rents at Belford & in the valuation of Outchester on the following day, as well as to fill up the Tillage Book of the Northern Estates, which he takes charge of that I might convey it to Mr Hunt to transcribe into the general Tillage account in the Office. All the Farm Tenants came forward & made quite as good payments as I could look for. I got all matters settled with Mr Thomson, late Tenant of Chesterhill, & an agreement made between him & Mr Borthwick, the successor in the Farm, for the payment of the Grass seeds sown last year, from one to the other, without my intervention. Mr Fenwick having as I desired sent the new Leases of Chesterhill & Glororum to meet me at Belford, I got them executed, receiving payment for the Stamps & Stationry. Both parties were rather reluctant to execute them, fearing that they would not be able to hold their Farms at the Rents. Major Johnson did not make his appearance, but wrote to say that he would wait upon me to settle our account, in the course of a week or two, when he hoped I should have the Boards instructions as to the allowance he considered himself entitled to, upon the Award of Jobson, Scott & Lowry. I wrote to him in reply, informing him that I should be in Newcastle on my way home & begging him to give me a meeting there on Saturday morning as I would not allow his Rent & Arrears to lay over.
