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Thursday 10th October In consequence of a fall from my horse when returning home after dark last night, & my present suffering from bruises, headache & sickness, I am unable to proceed on the inspection of the farms today, as I had fixed with Mr Hunt. Teasdale Old Teasdale having wearied out his connections with helping him, & finding no security for the payment of his Arrears has brought a resignation of his farm at May Day next, imploring the forebearance of the Commissioners till that time, & promising a payment on the rent day. Some loss by him must I fear be anticipated. His small effects would undoubtedly turn to better account at May Day than now, & we should avoid the pain of turning a family adrift in the winter. My greatest fear in the matter is that from the backward state of his work & the miserable condition of his Horses he should not get his Seed put in so as to ensure even such a Crop as the impoverished state of the land might produce. I advised him to solicit the assistance of his neighbours to get his Wheat land ridged up and sown telling him that upon his exertions in that subject and the payment he should make must depend the extent of forbearance that might be exercised towards him. Donkin Elstob& Co I have been requested to call the attention of the Board to an application made when Mr Hooper was here, and subsequently forwarded to Greenwich at his request by Donkin Elstob & Co, Lessees of certain mines for a surface or General grant in the same district. This application was discussed when I met Mr Taylor at Alston on his late visit, and both he and the Moor Master seemed to concur in the reasonableness of the Grant, in consideration of the spirited efforts of the party under discouraging circumstances.
