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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 6 Apr 1774
To Mr Holmes. Farnacres 6th April 1774
Dear Sir
I duly reced your Letter of the 19th Ulto and shd have wrote you before this time had I not been very much engaged ever since.
The prices at Newcastle much the same as when I last wrote you but suppose 5s/7 3/4d or 5s/8d the most.
I am obliged to you for your information respecting Dollars and Barrs and as you acquaint me Barrs are somethings finer and sometimes coarser than Standard
Letter – Christopher Fawcett to Edward Blackett – 6 Apr 1774
Newcastle 6. April 1774
Dear Sir Edward
As all or most of the Title Deeds relating to the Estate at Winlaton which you have sold to Mr. Simpson are in the Hands of Sir Walter Blackett, and as Sir Walter, Sir Thomas Wentworth & others are interested in those Deeds, but it is necessary That Mr. Simpson should have a Deed of Covenant for the Production of them as there shall be Occasion; I made the inclosed Draft as appearing to me a proper One for all Parties interested; and ha
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 10 Apr 1774
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 10th April 1774
On examining Mr Hiltons Account of Ore delivered last year at Langley Mill I find the following Errors in your Operations which I desire you will set right.
In Oper.n ending 27 Nov 1773 Thortergill Bouse shd be Cutting B Cwt
In Do 25 Dec 1773 Thortergill Bouse 1B 6Cwt Cutting 2 - = 3.6
shd be Bouse 4 Cuttn 3 2 = 3.6
all the rest agre
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 13 Apr 1774
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London Newcas 13th April 1774
Gentn
I have this day drawn a Bill on you at Thirty days date payable to Messrs Bell Cookson & Co or order for Nine hundred pounds which I desire you will accept & place to Account with Sir Walter Blackett I am etc JEB
£900.-.-. Newcastle April 13th 1774
Thirty days after date Pay to Messrs Bell Cookson & Co or order Ni
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 15 Apr 1774
Dukesfd. 15th. April 1774
Mr. Richmond Newcastle
Sir
I have here wth. sent you the Pay Bill Rental & Quarty. Accots. wch. I hope you’ll find Right. I have not deducted the 1..2..4 ¾ fm the Yrs. Accots. as you ordered, for that over charge in the last Yrs. Accots. were in the Bills you paid & I accounted to you in the Genl. Accot. for them as charged in the Accots. wch. can make no difference in the Ballances. But shall alter it when in Town in what Manner you
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 16 Apr 1774
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 16th April 1774
Sir
I have fixed the Mills pay to be made at Dukesfield on Thursday the 5th of May of which you will give proper Notices and be here on Monday the 2nd receive your Money on Tuesday and go home with it on Wednesday - You will give Intimation of this to the other Stewards and come armed as usual I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 17 Apr 1774
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 17 April 1774
In my Letter of the 10th inst for Thortergill in my remark as to yr Operation ending the 25th Decr last read Rampgill and then all will be right & I observe you have made yr alteration in the Operation now returned you ending 25 Decer last so as to correspond with that now here.
The Bullion weighs 981 Ounces and looks very well. I have not yet had time to try the Assays.
We shall not pay the Lead C
Letter – Henry Richmond to Ralph Heron – 17 Apr 1774
Mr Heron Attorney at Law in Hexham Newcas 17th April 1774
Sir
I hear you were in Town last week - a few Minutes of Conversation then would have communicated what I had to say to you about the Lead Mine Lease I wrote to you some time ago - If you have one of the Alston Moor Leases it would shorten your work in the drawing otherwise the Covenants will be difficult to adjust - This Lease will be wanted in a little time so if you are to be in this
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Walter Blackett – 19 Apr 1774
Sir Wr Blackett Barot Half moon Street Newcas 19th April 1774
Piccadilly London
Dear Sir
Inclosed you will receive Messrs Bell & Cos Bill on Messrs Castell & Co for Two hundred pounds which is sent agreeable to your directions to Mr Richmond - You will be pleased to acknowledge the Receipt of this Bill
I am etc JEB
£200 - - Newcastle
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 19 Apr 1774
Mr Willm Alvey Darwin Hatton Street London Newcas 19h April 1774
Sir
Inclosed you have Bell & Cos bill on Castell & Co for Two hundred & ninety Pounds on Account of the quarterly payments you are to make in London for Sir Wr Blackett between the 31 Ulto & the 30 June next which you will place to his Account & send me the usual Receipt for it. I am etc JEB
£290 - - Newcas
Letter – Henry Richmond to Ralph Heron – 21 Apr 1774
Mr Ra: Heron Attorney at Law Hexham Newcas 21st April 1774
Sir
I should have been glad to have acquainted you verbally when you were in Town with the particulars of the Lease I wrote you about, for I am a bad complainer with my left hand of things that in Discourse would have been intelligible enough. The Lease is intended to be from Sr Wr Blackett to Mr Baker of Elamore for 21 years of Hackford Leadmine in Hexham Manor the bounder is to be twenty
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Westgarth – 21 Apr 1774
John Westgarth Esqr at Unthank Weardale Newcas 21st April 1774
Sir
I received your favour of the 19th instt and as I shall not be at Dukesfield Pay not being well enough recovered of the Stroke of the palsy which I had in March gone Twelve Months and Wch has reduced me to write with my left hand I must desire if you have any proposals to make about any Vein of Lead Ore belonging to Sr Wr Blackett you will transmit them to me here
You desire no Tack may
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 24 Apr 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 24th April 1774
Sir
In my Lres of the 5th & 16th last Month I sent you all necessary particulars about the Conveyance of Unthank Estate fm Sr Wr Bt to Mr Jno Selby and acquainted you that Mr Duane and Mr Lodge were concerned for him and you were the only person of the Law employed by Sr Wr and said that the Money was to be pd on 12th May - I also wrote Mr Geo Selby that you were the person that Mr
Letter – Henry Richmond to George Selby – 24 Apr 1774
Mr George Selby Attorney at Law in Alnwick Newcas 24th April 1774
Sir
I received a Lre by this days post from Mr Darwin by which I find he does not know any thing of what is doing about the Conveyance , from Sir Walter to Mr Selby, of Unthank Estate - now this I wonder at as I acquainted you that Mr Darwin was Sr Wr’s Attorney in London and that Mr Lodge might apply to him for any thing wanted - The time is now far spent and Sir Walter is uneasy at Mr Darwi
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 25 Apr 1774
To Mr John Holmes Farnacres 25th April 1774
Dear Sir
By the London carrier who set out from Newcastle on Saturday I sent you a Box containing 981 ounces of fine silver.
On the 13th instant I sent you a Newcastle Salmon which I hope arrived safe and proved good. It was a day later than I had intended on account of my not being able to get one the day I had fixed upon.
This day I write to brother Smeaton who is I suppose at Austhorpe or upon the Road between London and
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 29 Apr 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 29th April 1774
Sir
I wrote Mr Geo: Selby as you desired and he says the Drafts of the Conveyance of Unthank have been lying before Mr Duane since the Middle of March & that your neighbour Mr Lodge can tell better than he what progress Mr Duane has made & what the Delay is owing to - Mr Lodge and you have had some Conversation I understand about preparing the Copies of the proper Deeds & I
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Westgarth – 2 May 1774
John Westgarth Esqr at Unthank Newcas 2d May 1774
near Stanhope in Weardale
Sir
I have the favour of your Letter of the 27th alto saying you are at a Loss to make proposals for a Tack of a Lead mine as you do not know Sr Wr Blacketts Terms for Duty etc - I also have your Lre to Sr Walter on this subject which he desires me to answer: I cannot answer these Lres better than by referring you to my Lre of 17th May 1769 w
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 3 May 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 3rd May 1774
Sir
In this and three other Covers you will receive back the Draft of the Conveyance from Sir Walter Blackett to Mr Selby - also a Copy of two Awards adjusting the Inn grounds & Out grounds of East Ord and also a Copy of Sir Walters purchase of the Threap Colliery from Mr Lisle - Some of the Notes made in the margin of the draft I think should not have been made there & therefore
Letter – Henry Richmond to George Selby – 4 May 1774
Mr George Selby in Alnwick Newcas Wednesdy 4 May 1774
Sir
To my great Surprise I received Letters from Mr Darwin on Sunday last inclosing the draft of the Conveyance of Unthank with several Queries made by him in the Margin of it & a Letter with several more all tending to satisfy his doubts about the parcels etc which he said appeared to him very confused and uncertain - These Queries he might have made on his receiving the Copy of the
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 4 May 1774
Sir Wr Blackett Bt MP Half moon street Newcas 4 May 1774
Piccadilly London
Honr Sir
By Sundays Post I received from Mr Darwin the draft of the Conveyance of Unthank Estate with a great many Queries in the Margin of it & in his Letter which he might have made on the papers I sent him on the 16th of March last; however I answered them and returned him the draft by Yesterdays post and hope he will lose no time in getting
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Germaine Lavie – 7 May 1774
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Lavie Alston 7th May 1774
Sir,
I wrote you the 4th Ult & gave as particular accts of the state of the Lead Mines as I could & expected an Answer before now as I told you my intention of begining Smelting the Middle of this Month & that the present Mill Agent Simpson could not from his other Business attend the Smelt Mill as it ought to be attended neither did I think him a Judge Smelting Refining &ca & as you were so obliging when Simpso
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 7 May 1774
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London Newcas 7h May 1774
Gentn
I sent you Yesterday by Francis Ridley the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver containing Nine hundred & Eleven Ounces; which I desire you will place to Accot with Sir Walter Blackett Bt as usual, at the Market price & advise me on your Receipt thereof I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Robert Hornsby – 12 May 1774
Messrs Walton & Smeaton present their compliments to Mr Hornsby and in answer to his application to Mr Walton now take the opportunity of informing him that they understand his circumstances are such as very much to set him above the sphere of life as a common Refiner; and tho Mr Hornsby’s views of Industry are in themselves laudable, yet as the person that serves Greenwich Hospital in this way must necessarily be under a kind of subjection and restraint, which they cannot expect from a ma
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Walter Blackett – 13 May 1774
Sir Walter Blackett Bt MP Half moon Street Newcas 13th May 1774
Piccadilly London
Dear Sir
Inclosed you will receive Messrs Bell & Cos bill on Messrs Hallifax & Co for three hundred pounds. You will be pleased to acknowledge the Receipt of this Bill I am etc JEB
£300-.-. Newcastle Bank 13th May 1774
Twenty days after date pay to the order or John Erasmus Blackett Esqr Three hundred pounds - value received For
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Grey – 16 May 1774
Mr John Grey Attorney at Law Berwick upon Tweed Newcas 16th May 1774
Sir
Inclosed I return you the Draft of the Conveyance from Sir Walter Blackett to Mr George Malcolm and have made some Alterations in it and filled up the Blank for the Date - which I hope you will approve of and if so you may get it ingrossed and send it hither for Execution on Sr Wr’s coming to Newcastle which I suppose will be the beginning of next Month - I am obliged
