Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 21st March 1775
As there will be probably be occasion for a greater quantity of Bricks at Langley Mil, this Year than usual, I desire you will make preparation accordingly. The upper part of the Chimneys for the new Hearths must be Brick you know and some part of the Chimneys for the Cottages also Brick.
I wish much to hear you have got some light into the Affair of the Bellows cutting but indeed I am afraid it wil
Mr Labourne. Farnacres 21 March 1775
You must be preparing Stones for the new Buildings at Langley Mill, as it is most probable we shall not only build two Cottages but Room for two Ore Hearths at the Refinery and a new Stamp Mill and Bone Ash House.
I am Your hble Servt
N W Junr
Mr Thomas Maughan at Newhouse in Weardale Newcas 23rd March 1775
Sir
In your Partnership Account ending 30th Septemr last you make the Ore delivered to Sir Walters Mill 118B. 2h & that he has 51B. 3h lying at the Groves & you say the Ore lying sent to Mr Bacons Mill & lying is 170B. 1b. : Now I want you to distinguish how much is sent to Mr Bacon’s Mill & how much is lying; & desire when you come hither you will be so good as
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths in Foster Lane London Newcas 26th March 1775
Gentlemen
I have this day sent you by Robt Cave the London a piece of fine Silver containing Seven Hundred and Nineteen 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 it
I shall in a few posts get Mr J.E.Blackett to draw a Bill on you for Fourteen Hundred pounds on Sir Walter’s Accot and am et
Mr Ralph Heron Attorney at Law Hexham Newcas 26th March 1775
Sir
Inclosed I return you the Draft of the Case about Nubbuck with such Alterations as appear necessary to Mr Bell and me - You will please as soon as possible to get this case laid before both Mr Fawcett and Mr Wilson for their Opinion and as there are only two Queries I should suppose a Guinea would be a sufficient Fee to each but of this you are a better Judge than etc
Mr Ralph Heron Attorney at Law in Hexham Newcas 28th March 1775
Sir
Sir Walter Blackett has executed the Lease of Hackford Mine and it will be ready to be exchanged whenever the Counterpart is brought to me executed by all the Lessees; of which please to acquaint them or some person concerned for them - I hope I shall receive from the Council their Opinions about Nubbuck as soon as possible I am etc HR
Mr Holmes. Farnacres 28 March 1775
Dear Sir
This day I am favoured with your Letter of the 25th inst and have drawn upon you payble one Month after date for £122.4.1 being the amount of 420 1/2 Ounces of Bullion at 5s9 3/4d P Oz.
I am Dr Sir. Your most hble Servt
N W Junr
Sir Farnacres 28th March 1775
One Month after date pay to the Order of Mssrs Bell Cookson Carr Widdrington & Saint One Hundred
To Mr Salter. Farnacres 28th March 1775
Dear Sir
I desire you will be so obliging as bespeak us of Mr Finch 100 Casks of Bone Ashes and desire they may be sent by any of the Newcastle Traders who Ship only Merchants Goods for we find there is a saving at London by their coming in that way rather than by the Colliers in the Cartage and Wharfage and it is more convenient to us in the delivery at Newcastle Quay instead of being delivered at Shields, an
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 31 March 1775
I very much approve of what you have done with respect to H. Smith and of your sentiments and what you intend doing as to him but I think it may be proper to let the matter rest til Mr Smeaton & I are together at Hexham and by this days Post I shall desire Mr Bell to give you Notice to Noble and Dixon to pay their Rents on the Monday when we shall have time to talk to them - but it has just struck me that perhaps i
The Rev Doctor Scott Farnacres 31st March 1775
Sir
On Monday and Tuesday the 10th & 11th of next Month (Monday and Tuesday Sennt) we intend receiving the Rents of Greenwich Hospital at Hexham and shall be very glad of the pleasure of your Company on either of those days most convenient to you to take a Dinner with us; in the mean time we wish you health to enjoy your new appointment under Greenwich Hospital and are
Sir Your most Obed Hble Servts
W &
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Newcastle 1st April 1775
Foster Lane London
Gentn. I have this day drawn a Bill on you at Twenty days date payable to Messrs Bell Cookson & Co for Fourteen hundred Pounds which I desire you will please to accept & place to the Account of Sir Walter Blackett Bt. I am etc John E. Blackett
£1400 . . Newcastle Bank 1st Apr
To Mr John Langlands or Mr Jo Hutchinson Farnacres 2nd April 1775
Sir
As we shall receive the Rents of Greenwich Hospital at Mrs Marleys in Gateshead on Friday first the 7th instant if convenient to you, should be glad to receive for the Bullion sold you the 18th February last. The Money will be £279.3s3d being the amount of Nine hundred and Seventy One Ounces at five shillings and nine Pence P Ounce. We now sell our Bullion at 5s9 3/4d. W
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 3rd April 1775
to be left at Mr Pearson’s, Surgeon in Hexham
Sir
I have fixed your Pay to be on Thursday the 27th of this Month and desire if you have no particular Objection to the day that you will give Notice accordingly - So I could have you be here on Monday Evening the 24th receive your Money on Tuesday the 25th, go to Dukesfield with it on the 26th and make your Pay as I said on
Dukesfd. 3d. April 1775
Mr. Richmond N.Castle
Sir
Have sent you the Pay Bill, Rental & Decr. Quartr. Accots. I am not affraid of any mistake in regard to the produce of Coalcleugh Ore last year, as that Ore was all Smelted before the Accot. was made up. the Ore that came f’m Kilhope last Summer must have been got a very poor Mine, & there was some white Ore came fm her very poor of Lead wch. after making Trial of I desired Mr. Kidd would send what they had, &
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Lavie 4 April 1775
Sir,
After those drifts are drove I intend cutting south to try the sun Vein you will see as above there is 16 Men Imployed in sinking & rising the sum from the Ore workings in to the deep Level & 6 Men rising the Borehole Shaft all 22, 10 of which was taken out of sundry Ore Bargons & will go back to their Bargains as soon as the sump & shaft is finished 16 Men to be employed in driving forward the Low Level the ot
£125 Newcastle Bank 4th April 1775
Twenty Days after Date pay to the Order of Walter Trevelyan Esqr. One Hundred and Twenty
five Pounds Value received
For Bell Cookson Carr Self & Saint
To Messrs. Hallifax Mills Glyn & Mitton Jno. Widdrington
_ London
No. 2994
Mr Daniel Alder at Adderstone Newcas 7th April 1775
near Belford - North
Sir
Inclosed is Mr Bacon Forsters Executors’s Accot of their Proportion of Weardale Rents Compositions etc for the last Year & also their Accot for the six Years past: & I cannot help expressing my wonder that the Extors should suffer this Money to remain unpaid so long; as they may be sensible they have no right to remove any Ore whilst such a
Gracefeald Aprill 19th 1775
Dear Sir
We Have come to the flatt in the S[o]uth cross cut but she is all under our sols we have just Broke in to the Top of hir, but Cannot Say what she will be as good as Littol Triyol [Little Trial] is made, the ore that w[e] See is very good I hope in a fortnets time I shall be abol to give you a b[etter] account, She is Very Hard. <Disire you> will send us two washers <……> popole is all Started to wash <…….> I should be glad to
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Atkinson 21st Apr 75
Sir,
Yours of the 12th Instant I recd the advice I now give is for you to sell all the Lead that lord Carlisle has now Smelted which I beleeive will be delivered you in a few Days & we cannot expect more than the Markitt Price I doubt not of your Care to get the Best price the Lead will fetch at NewCastle & as we shall have occasion for £1000 on the 15th next Month it would be very agreeable if you would advance that sum then to
Mr Willm. Alvey Darwin London Newcas. 22 April 1775
Sir I received your Letter of the 11th inclosing Mr. Wilkinsons receipt for £7 . 10s . 0 on Account of his Expenses coming down & returning to London. Your Account with the other Vouchers relating to the Election I have examined & find right Inclosed you have Messrs. Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Castell Whateley & Powell for Three hundred and forty two Pou
Mr Darwin No 47 Hatton Street London Newcas 24 April 1775
Sir
Inclosed I return you your several Queries with Answers thereto in order to form an Addition to the Case concerning the Inclosure upon the Waste of the Manor of Hexham at Nubbuck & hope it will be satisfactory - A ship is come in here with a Box & a Case directed to Sir Walter Blackett which I suppose will prove the Scales Weights & Measures for Hexham but they are not
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Lavie 25th Apr 1775
Sir,
In your Letter of 17th Feby last you mentioned that if I could Borrow the Money wanted to complete the Pays &ca at 5 p Cent till April when you would be in the Country it would oblige you in Consequence of which I did borrow it & as the Time of Payment now draws near I send this to know if you still retain the same determination of paying that Money out of the Rents my Reason for making this enquiry is that I beleive I can hav
Cornelis Joseph Osy Esqr Newcas 26th April 1775
at Rotterdam
Sir
By the direction of Sir Wr Blackett I have shipt this day in the Love & Unity - Captn Joseph Mack a hogshead of Ale directed for you to the Care of Messrs Pieter Dander Hoeven & Co - It is intended as a present to Mr Cornelisson at Antwerp to whom you will please to forward - it is inclosed in a Case with Saw dust between the Outer and Inner Casks
Thorpe Lee
27th Apr 1775
Dear Brother
We are now all dispers'd again; My Mother at Warwick, Bro. Will at Plymouth, Harry upon the road to you, My Son at Oxford, My Daughter in Town: & we here; we left Town on Monday last, & altho it was the 24th Aprl there, we found it the middle of June here; I rode out yesterday upon the heath, found it so hot I was glad to return again soon; This day too is very hot but wth more wind; Thermometer at 67. If we have not rain soon there
Mr Ralph Heron Attorney at Law Newcas 28th April 1775
In Hexham
Sir
The Weights & Measures which were ordered by Sir Walter Blackett for the Court at Hexham near four Years ago are now come & in his Office here - I shall send them to you as soon as I know you are at Home or you will please to order the Carrier to call for them. I shod be glad to know, when you open the Boxes, what they contain as I have not unpack