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Monday 7th July 1834 Mr Lee of West Land Ends came to complain of the extreme dearness of his Farm & offer a resignation of the Lease. I shall report upon the several applications of this kind, after having got a good many together, which will save the Board the trouble of attending to & replying to each separately Wrote to Mr Forster urging him to give his earliest attention to the view of the Hospital’s Collieries. Rode to Whittonstall & examined the Farms there & at Newlands, & got the Woodman of the District to accompany me through a great deal of Woodland there, in which, though a good deal has lately been cut, there remains much fit for cutting. The Tenants on these Estates are using the privilege granted them of getting Lime, with great alacrity, & are working their Fallows in good style. And the Lime they procure from the Stanhope Company is of excellent quality. I expected that Newlands Mill was to have required nothing more in the way of Repairs for a long time to come, but on going there today, found that the roof of the Water Wheel case had given way, from the decay of the Timber under the heavy & porous Gray Slates & that in tumbling down, they endangered the Wheel when in motion, which is a very good one. I therefore decided that they should be completely taken off, that the Wood might be replaced & the Slates replaced.
