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Tuesday 13th August 1833 Stublick Colliery Crops Had an interview this morning with Mr Shield of Stublick Colliery respecting the dilemma he is in with regard to the Corn upon the lands attached to the Colliery, which matter I have fully stated to the Board in my Letter of this evening to Mr Hooper. Fewster Also saw Fewster tenant of Newlands Haugh Farm, wishing to talk to me about the Wood for the Bridge, but evidently to discover my opinion respecting their prospect of continuing in the farm & being allowed for leading to new Buildings. I told him the Hospital had enough to do, in making the Buildings without paying for leading to them, & that I could give him no reason to hope for such an allowance, nor could I honestly recommend them to engage in such an undertaking for it would cause them to neglect the working of their land & involve in speedier ruin, leaving the new Buildings to be enjoyed by their successor. He admitted the truth of the remark, but feared, if they should give up the farm & the Board should exact the old Arrears, they could not engage in another & thought they had better try to hold on. I told him that I could say nothing as to the Board’s intentions respecting the Arrears, but thought it probable that as to the part wch had not been contracted by him & his brother, the Board might, in consideration of the efforts they have made & the bad terms they have had to contend with, be inclined to show them some lenity. I told him too having seen their persevering industry, I should feel myself much more at liberty to recommend them as tenants upon a Farm when only the tillage of the land was to be attended to, than when any thing was to be done that required an extra capital. I am not very anxious that this farm should be given up, unless I were certain of the adjoining one being set at liberty at the same time. No new tenant would take Fewsters with the present ruinous Offices, & it would be a pity to make new ones here, when by laying the two together, a saving a saving of 8 or £900 might be effected, which would afford a reduction of rent, beyond that which the times will force upon it. I visited the Works on the Tyne both in my way to & from Hexham.
