Journal entry – John Grey – 21 Apr 1834

Monday 21st



Having applied to Mr Wailes to know if he could give me any information as to the ground of Hind’s refusal to quit the premises at Dilston & having heard from him that no agreement sanctioning his continuance till Martinmas was ever entered into, and that Mr Wailes never knew if such a deviation from the general practice of the Estates, I thought it proper to send Hind a notice in writing that his persisting in holding the premises after May Day would be followed by an action of ejectment.  He is a man of remarkable obstinacy and although that would form no apology for my doing anything harsh or unfair, neither does it afford a reason for my submitting to be defied and bullied by a  foolish, drunken old man. Went to see the works at Dilston & meeting a coach there, proceeded in the afternoon to Carlisle, where I had been solicited to act as a Judge in the distribution of Premiums, along with two other Gentlemen, from Yorkshire & Dumfriesshire, at the first meeting of the East Cumberland agricultural Society.