Various letters relating to John Grimston

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CMV33018

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DDGR/42/15

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Various letters relating to John Grimston

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Various letters relating to John Grimston, including one recording a visit to Voltaire and Voltaire’s opinions of English authors.

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Includes letters from: Thomas Payler, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; R Grimston, Cambridge, London and York (5 pieces); John Grimston to Robert Haslefoot; F Best, London and Dalton (3 pieces); R Haselfoot, Boreham; Robert Hildyard, Winestead and Ledbury (4 pieces); Nathaniel Maister, Hull (4 pieces); Simon Kelsey; W Stables, York (7 pieces); Francis Legard, York. Thomas Bridge, Dunmow, Essex (2 pieces); William Leake, Beverley (2 pieces); Joshua Pindar, Grimston Garth; J Bagnall, Donnington (3 pieces); T Hassell, Thop; Thomas Maltby, Hutton Bonville (2 pieces); R Longworth, Chancery Lane; S Harding, Pickering; Robert Bogg, Doctors Commons; Beachcroft, Seward and West, London (2 pieces); John Graves, York; John Grimston to T Worseley, London; Henry Digby, Hutton Bushell; Thomas B Grimston, Cheam (e); Mathew How, Kilnwick; JB Dorado, Besancon; D Legard, Ganton; Henry Maister, Hull (2); Thomas Wentworth, Bretton; James Ryder, Mile End (5); Gregory Cooper, London; Micl Ake, Garton; P Panton, Plas Gwyn; S Hewett, Hull; William Denison, Beverley; S Mills, Norbury; S Butterwick, Thirsk; Jane Grimston, York; HW Osbaldeston, Hunmanby. Concerning: estate (Lund; Beverley; Smeaton; Deighton (right of way for tenant of windmill); Argam; Garton). social and financial affairs (Walter Hardwick); certificate of jury of wold Newton and Fordon relating to condition of water runnel through premises of John Appleby, leading from the town’s Mar, to premises of Robert Whiton; resignation of postmaster of Beverley and recommendation that Samuel Bland should succeed him; price of having gun made; Thomas Grimston at Cheam School; Robert Grimston (ward of John Grimston) at Cambridge University; description of journey to Paris and of famous building there (French); requests for financial assistance to James Ryder Sea bathing; John Grimston to make drawings of fossils and semi-precious stones, for inclusion in a book on Scotland to be published by Paul Panton; Sword of Gustavus Adolphus, together with other curiosities, brought from Germany by Mr Pennant; Militia; Death of Duke of Cumberland; English people in Geneva ‘live all together and seldom speak a word of French’; ‘My son….passed a day with Voltaire…..’-his (Voltaire’s) opinions of English authors. (10 Nov 1765) drainage of Wilfholme; Robert Grimston to travel abroad.

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Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

30 May 2024