L30/14/333/313

From Fritz, Ripon to 2nd Baron Grantham:

30 Jan 1785

From: 1785 To: 1785

Weather very cold & snowy, not conducive to travel. Would have been angy with Lord Bathurst if he'd prevented Grantham from writing more. Too late to offer a reward for catching thieves at Newby [Park]. Prohibitor inscriptions up at Cockshut & Ripon gates. Family pictures taken down as a precaution. Thinks Mr. Comyns, frame maker will make them creditable ancestors. Would rather have assisted at Grantham's dinner with two Pelhams than at that with the foreigners or marriage feast with Poles. Does not like Grantham's indigestion. Mentions Mr. Wilkinson & nephew dined, latter in East Indies last war and in all actions with M. de Suffrein. Not sorry to avoid debate upon the Scrutiny, didn't vote on it originally, not convinced of legality.

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Bathurst,
Comyns,
Wilkinson,
Suffrein