Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 17th May 1774
Sir
The Objection made by Sir Thos Clavering to the Blanchland and Hexham Boundary Bill is reasonable - for the Freeholders and Copyholders adjoining to the Ground in dispute have a Right of Common upon it and without their Consent the Bill may be objected to and lost for this Sessions tho’ it manifestly is for their Advantage to have the Bounder fixed Now; lest the Inroads that hav
Mr Robt Morrow at Blaydon Newcas 19 May 1774
Sir
I have not yet got your Years Rental ending Mayday 1773 tho I have often asked you for it - I am now at a Stand for Want of it & you will be blamed if you don’t bring it me on Saturday next I am etc HR
Dukesfd. 23d. May 1774
Mr. C. Hunter Allanhds
Being ingaged to Mr. R. Lowes for his Tenant Thos. Bell Raw Green, I desire you’ll order Mr. R. Allgood to let him have Ore twice a Week f’m Your Groves for this Season. I shall not admit of any excuse for Mr. Allgood’s not complying wth. the above request, knowing that it can be no inconvenience to him to let a Man have 12 H’s of ore in the Week as he only drives 6 Horses. & am
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D.f. 23d. May 1774
Mr. W. Foster at Coalcleugh
Sr.
I desire you’ll forward Thos. Bell of R[aw].G[reen]. a catch of Ore a Week for this Season
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Mr. C. Kidd Kilhope
I desire if you have any Ore Ready that you’ll send it here as soon as possible for Mr. <R> wants some of that Ld. & we have a Weeks Work at the Mill you’ll please to let Thos Bell have a catch of Ore in the Week this Season f’m yr grove & am
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To Mr John Holmes Farnacres 24th May 1774
Dear Sir
We were duly favoured with your letter of the 7th inst and have this day drawn upon you for £279-19-10 being the amount of 981 ounces of silver at 5/8 ½ p ounce, and we are glad to hear the silver market seems upon the advance
It gives us pleasure to hear the mustard proved an agreeable present & Mr Walton is glad the salmon came fresh to Town and that the losing of a day in sending it ws so lucky.
By the London carrier w
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 24th May 1774
Sir
The Query that Mr Duane has made respecting the Quarries in that part of the Town[shi]p of East Ord called Middle Ord, and what you say about it, is certainly right - for Sir Walter should not convey away the Quarries in his own Estates - Mr Selby bought only the Coalmines in the Town[shi]p of East Ord and Sr Wr afterwards voluntarily added the Leadmines & Quarries to the pur
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 25th May 1774
Sir
It seems to me necessary that Sir Walter should have a Counterpart of the Deed of Conveyance of Unthank on Accot of the Covenant about double Damage etc and I have mentioned it before but if Mr Duane thinks so it would have more weight with Mr Selby if he would advise accordingly upon the Draft I am etc HR
Mr Daniel Alder at Adderstone near Belford Newcas 27h May 1774
Sir
I have sent you Mr Bacon Forster’s Ex[ecu]tors Account of their proportion of Weardale Rents etc for the last Year & also their Accot with Sir Walter Blackett for the last five years. I have often asked Mr Johnson, but in vain, for the Money due on the four former Years Accounts and therefore now send the whole to you hoping your Attention to the carrying forwa
Dukesfd. 30th. May 1774
Mr. H Richmond N Castle
Sr.
I have taken f’m the Accots. the Charge of the Peats at Rookhope Mill f’m the Year 1760 to the p[as]t year and the quantity of Ld. made at the Ore Hearth in the sd. time, and find that the Peats has cost upon an average 18 ½ d p[er] Ton of Lead. I suppose there’s several Days charged for Wet Peats &c wch. I have not in the Accot for I took nothing but what was expressly so mentioned in the Accots. The Quantit
Dukesfd. 30th. May 74
Mr. Morrow Blaydon
Dr Sr.
When at Apperley Lane the other Day I found that some of the Carriage Men play Tricks wth. the Woman that keeps the Gate there by getting some of the Co.s Draugts through the Barr wth. them. I desire that youll acquaint them all, that who’ever of them any way deceives the Woman there or is any way aiding the Co’s Ld to pass the above Barr or connives at its passing along that Lane, shall be immediately discharged f’m S
Mr Mulcaster Farnacres 31st May 1774
As we cannot make our cash account and cash upon the Hexham Rece.s to agree must desire you will carefully examine your accounts and Cash and try whether you find they have been properly settled at the Pay and at Farnacres. We are in doubt whether you might not receive the Money you had paid on Account to the Smelters &c when we were at Hexham, except Henry Smiths money which you had paid him on Account & Lionel Charltons on Acct of leda car
Mr Joseph Hilton. Farnacres 31st May 1774
Mr Hilton
I am surprised you should so much misunderstand us about Mr Mulcaster as to think he had done wrong in employing Wm Wilson our direction to you being that he was not in future to take any of the Companys or any other Persons Smelters without leave unless there was a necessity and you were told that leave had been given to Wilson which tho' not given in any genteel way we yet thought it proper to
To Mr Hopper. Farnacres 3rd June 1774
Sir
Some time ago Mr Monkhouse spoke to me to take some Bone Ashes which had been got for the Brownley Hill Company more than they had occasion for. I could not at the time give Mr Monkhouse a satisfactory answer but the other day I called at your Office in the Side & acquainted your Clerk that if there were any Bone Ashes yet remaining which you wanted to be clear of, as a convenience to you and Mr Monkho
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 10th June 1774
Sir
I am obliged to you for the Satisfaction your Letter gave me in the Account that the Bill for Settling the Boundaries between Blanchland & Hexham Manors had passed both Houses of Parliament tho I am ignorant of some parts of its Contents - I have not yet seen Mr Adams but shod be glad to receive from him or by any other Conveyance some of the Acts when the Royal Assent is giv
Newcas 10th June 1774
Same Day Advised Mr Isaac Hunter of two pieces of Silver from Dukesfield Refinery HR
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London Newcas 11th June 1774
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I sent you yesterday by Thos Jennings the London Carrier two pieces of fine Silver (in a Box) containing together One Thousand Five hundred and seventy one Ounces which I desire you will place to Accot with Sir Walter Blackett as usual at the Market price and advise me on your receipt of Them I am etc HR
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Mr John Grey Attorney at Law in Newcas 11th June 1774
Berwick upon Tweed
Sir
George Mallcom must pay his purchase Money here to Jno E Blackett Esqr as soon as the Conveyance Deeds are executed by Sr Wr Blackett of which Notice will be sent you but I do not expect him here till after our Races P.S. Scotch Notes will not pass here So Mr Mallcom must either send Newcastle Bank Notes or good Money I
Mr George Selby Attorney at Law in Alnwick Newcas 11th June 1774
Sir
By the Lres I have from London I expect the Draft of the Conveyance of Unthank etc from Sr Wr Blackett to Mr Selby is now with you - if it is so I should be very glad of it and hope you will be able to get the Ingrossments completed and sent to me in our Race Week as Sir Wr Blackett will be here the Week after and the Deeds may the
Mr Ralph Heron Attorney at Law Newcas 12th June 1774
Hexham
Sir
The Lease of Hackford Leadmine which was to have been granted to Mr Geo: Baker by Sir Walter Blackett is now to be granted to his Exors subject to the Trusts in his Will
The Exors are the Right Honble John Earl of Strathmore John Baker of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne Esqr and one of the Aldermen of the said To
To Mr Caleb Hunter at Allanheads Newcas June 12th 1774
Sir
I desire that after the 30th instant all the Rope that you shall want for Allanheads may be got of Messrs Atkinson and Rutherford on the Keyside in this Town and that all the Rope that you may want for Wolfcleugh after the 30th instant be got of Messrs Stoddart Chapman and Liddell in this Town also I am etc HR
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr C Atkinson Alston 13th June 1774
Sir,
We have now at Stanhope Mill & upon the Road 28 Piggs of Common Lead which I have ordered to be forwarded to you with every possible speed it is just 20 Futher I send this therefore to desire you will be so kind as sell it as soon as you can at a Markett Price as I shall soon be out of Cash for Supporting the Workmen & would not like to Draw any more Cash from London if I could possably avoid it your Complyance wit
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 13th June 1774
Your Letters of the 9th and 11th were reced at this place by Mr Hilton yesterday.
The Lead you sell at the Mill may be at the same price as last fixed.
I am glad to hear the Reducers have done better this Operation than common and hope they will continue to do as well in future but I doubt that.
You should not give yourself any uneasiness about Wm Brown. As to his ingratitude, such a Being
To Mr Holmes. Farnacres 14th June 1774
Dear Sir
This day I have packed up in a Box directed to you near Somerset House London 853 Ounces of fine Silver which will be sent by the London Carrier who sets out from Newcastle on Saturday first.
The instant I had wrote the above I reced your Letter of the 11th and have drawn upon you dated this day payable 30 days after date for £98.12.. being the amount of 348 Ounces of Bullion at 5s/8d POunce. I am
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 14th June 1774
I understand the Lead Carriers West of Hexham have considerable Stocks of Lead in Hand & that they require the Hexham Carriers to come and fetch it from them without allowing any thing to the Hexham Carriers to Hexham. Let that matter be as it may among them it certainly is not proper that the Lead should lie and therefore I desire you will it deliver Lead to any except the Hexham Carriers including Mr Bell of the