a) Estate and financial affairs, tenants, rents, January 1731/2 - September 1733:
Planting on estate and in churchyard.
Wind damage to stables, barns and thatch.
Shipping 'spaw water' from Scarborough to London for Lady Pennington.
Cost of renting rooms during summer in Scarborough.
Stocking the fish pond.
Difficulty of obtaining payment of rent and finding tenants for farms.
Col. Lowther's map of the estate.
Woodcock sent by waggon to London.
Death of Mr. Lowe of Priestbury, Cheshire.
Invitation from Thomas Condon, High Sheriff to attend assizes.
Master Anderson had smallpox.
Fruit trees purchased for gardens.
Box and hamper shipped from Hull.
Fencing.
Price of oats at Beverley.
Acorns planted.
Church steeple at Warter to be taken down & rebuilt; use of lime kiln and scaffolding needed for work.
Death of Lowther Pennington.
Mrs. Lowe selling up her home in Cheshire.
Picture and frames sent to Muncaster by carrier.
Money lost around Pocklington on Mr. Reed's horse, racing at York.
Engagement of cook for Sir J.P.'s arrival at Warter.
b) Estate and financial affairs, tenants, rents, November 1734 - December 1735:
Pistols left in a boat at Barton.
'Careless & graceless postilion' dismissed.
Tiles used at Grimthorpe were made at Hull but glazed like those brought from Holland 'the price is £3.10/- per thousand which is just about ouble the price of the others'.
Disappearance of John Richardson, later found, starved to death.
Bacon and hams sent by sea to London.
Account of bills contracted during Sir J.P.'s visit to Warter.
'Little Jackey Johnson' had smallpox. Later dec'd.
Loss of ships in recent storm.
Meeting at York in connection with scrutiny for Sir Rowland Winn 'we find a pretty many more bad voters for Sir Miles Stapilton than for Sir Rowland Winn in those two weapontakes'.
Estate at Farrington.
Purchase of John Jopson's estate at Warter.
Repairs at James Sanderson's house.
Holding court at Warter.
Two houses recently burnt down at Warter, tenants to be re-housed.
Bills of exchange 'here are very difficult to meet with ....... I think I have never known them more scarce in my time'.
Lord Lonsdale has resigned office of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.
Sheep & beasts continue at very low prices, though wool sells 'indifferent well'.
Governor Lowther's illness.
A great many farmers 'in these parts' are very poor.
A good prospect for the Wold farms, as a great many of the lower ground sheep are 'Rotten'.
Difficulties in booking seats on a stage coach.
Crop prices.
c) Estate and financial matters, tenants, rents, January 1735/6 - December 1737:
Jopson's estate at Warter.
Brewing.
Difficulty in obtaining bills of exchange.
Horses and spaniels sent to Muncaster.
Sand beds at Wintringham Haven have been removed and 'it is much better boating over there ... than it hath been'.
'Little Hugh Levits' wage - 3d. a day 'a penny more than he usually had before when he had his meat'.
Apples ('Nonparells and Golden pippins'), ham and bacon sent by sea from Hull to London.
Prices of wool - 'I suppose the hindering the Clandestine exportation of it will still rather decrease than increase the price of it for some time, & will only be beneficial to those parts of the nation where it is manufactured'.
Jersey partridges destroyed by vermin.
Many deaths recently, especially at Pocklington & Huggate.
Lady Pennington's ill-health.
'Good prospect of the times mending amongst the farmers in these parts'.
Payment of tithes of wool and lamb.
'A great sickness' in Westmorland and Cumberland.
Death of the queen.
d) Estate and financial matters, tenants, rents, January 1737/8 - September 1739:
Tithes of wool and lamb.
Election at Beverley.
Death of Mr. Johnson, who kept the court at Warter.
Brewing.
Bills of exchange.
Lady Pennington's ill-health and death.
Death of Mrs. Mary Lowther.
Possible purchase of land of John Jopson at Warter.
Felling timber.
Mr. Remington has got curacies of Gelden & Millington, salaries of both will be £26 besides surplus fees.
Death of John Dickinson's father at Elmsall.
Bond of Indemnity signed by Mrs. Remington.
Mr. Luck has fallen from the top of the church and had a leg amputated.
Sale of coach-horse & asses.
Marriage of Mr. Remington.
e) Estate and financial affairs, rents, tenants, December 1739 - August 1743:
Hams sent to London.
Inhabitants of Warter poaching on Mr. Barnard's warren on Hardinfleets.
Prosecution of persons unlawfully keeping dogs, guns etc. (Letter from Robert Appleton, Beverley enclosed).
House of John Jopson at Scarndale Bottom burnt down.
Farm of William Dorsey also burnt down.
Recent fires caused by ashes being thrown into the fold yards; plans made at court to prevent this.
Nineteen houses burnt down and woman & 4 children died in fire at North Dalton.
John Jopson's estate.
Bills of exchange scarce as 'the Cloth Trade is very low at present' (at Elmsall) and because of 'the small return of Butter' (at York).
Man lost in snowdrifts near Lownsbrough Park.
Arrangements for freeholders of Warter to meet at Thomas Settle's at Barmby Moor for the election.
Weight of the snow has brought down a stable roof.
Result of the election.
Master Willy Anderson at Stilton suffering from the palsy, was treated with 6 or 7 'blistering plaisters' and is recovering.
Many fish in the pond.
Death of Edward Thompson at York (prospective Member of Parliament).
A firkin of butter sent to London by sea.
'The times are full as good now for farmers as they have been this several years past, yet the tenants here seem still dissatisfied'.
Bequest of Jane Awtherson to poor of Warter.
'A great deal of sickness stirring about Hull... some new distemper that hath been in the south parts of Europe'.
Much talk of robberies in the district.
Brewing.
Purchase of house.
Illness and deaths at Warter.
Mr. Luck considers Sir Butler Wentworth to be 'as weak a person (in his intellects) as he had ever seen'.
Price of wool.