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Monday 7th October Rail Road Wrote to Mr Walker Agent of the Railway Company inclosing a Copy of the Account for the repair of Snokoe road, informing him that I considered £13.0.0 as the proportion of the expense which ought to be borne by the Company & requesting him to pay that sum. Mr Bicknell / Wark Received a letter from Mr Bicknell together with an Agreement respecting a purchase of Wark by the Duke of Northumberland containing Blanks to be filled up according to such arrangement as might become to with Mr Leadbitter, the Duke’s Solicitor, previous to its being signed. Being much occupied otherwise & concerning that the matter was likely to be more satisfactorily & conclusively settled by Mr Fenwick’s waiting upon Mr Leadbitter, on the part of the Hospital than myself, I forwarded Mr Bicknell’s Letter and the Agreement to him desiring him to seek an early interview, & at the same time to arrange with Mr Leadbitter about the receipt of the Fee Farm Rents. Westwood, Bagraw, Coastley Machine I was afterwards occupied till dark, in examining with Mr Hunt, and comparing by the plans & tillage books the several farms of Westwood, Bagraw, Coastley and Heckford, with a view to their present state of cultivation & future covenants. The expensive Thrashing Machine at Coastley is at present nearly useless for want of water, to the great inconvenience of the tenant, who can hardly get straw wherewith to cover his Stacks, or corn for seed, independent of getting any to market. The only very effectual supply must come from the brook which runs through the Farm. but to obtain sufficient level to bring it into the reservoir, it must be covered at a great distance in a conduit & carried across the Glen of Bogle Wood, in troughs or pipes, which would be attended with great expense. To make an addition at reservoir, so as to retain a considerable quantity in times when water was going, would be a cheaper though not so certain an expedient. [Annotated in margin in pencil: ‘Rather than waste all this expence why not abandon this Machine and thrash by hand?’
