Letter – Benjamin Johnson to Thomas Wentworth Beaumont – 14 Aug 1821

Mr B		(undated)

I have had the honor to receive your letter from Paris ... About fifty of the Allendale copyholders attended on the 10th inst and have agreed to purchase their tithes and freeholds at the price asked and a meeting will take place … The farmers are by no means improved in circumstances since you were in the North ... I called upon Geo Forster yesterday but he could only promise to pay up his last half years arrear with his half years rent at Martinmas.  He expressed a wish to write you on the subject though ..?.. he send any letter to me I shall forward it ... If it meet your approbration I should prefer having an allowance in lieu of having a horse and milk found ... this I consider the actual expense incurred annually (£80) ... and permit me to rent the lawn and a small croft behind the house in grass it would be a great convenience to myself and family (as it is I am obliged to take the man who goes with the draught horses to attend to my horse night and morning. )