Messrs Farrers & Atkinson Newcastle 28 June 1791
Lincoln Inns Fields
London
Gentlemen I was favoured with your letter of the 24th and according to your request have sent enclosed an Account of the Annuitants and Bond Debts which are due here, I likewise enclose you a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at One Month dated this day for £200 to pay the two Miss Lilly’s you will pleas
Mr Richd Noble Bretton Newcastle 1st July 1791
near Wakefield Yorkshire
Sir Inclosed you will a bill drawn by Eden, Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at One Month dated this day for £2000 on Sir Thos Blackett’s Accot the Rec[eip]t of which you will please to acknowledge. I am yours etc J.E.B
£2000
Williams Hotel, <Rua> Nova do Sacramento Buenos Ayres,
Lisbon
July 20th 1791
Dear Skelton,
I am just favoured with yours, and have the pleasure to tell you, that we arrived safe here on the 9th. we had a very pleasant passage, and were 11 days out. Mrs. Bt. was sick one day, and kept her Bed three days, the remainder of the way she was very well. I was never sick the whole time. I am sorry that Wharton would not take Grove, however by this time, by advertisin
Messrs Stephenson & Pearnley Hull Newcastle 22d July 1791
Gentlemn By desire of Messrs Isaac & John Wilkinson of Chesterfield, I have Shipped in the Newcastle of Hull (Wm Marrican Master) Two Hundred Pieces of Lead to your care on their Accot, & which I hope will come safe. The Ship will be ready to sail in a day or two.
I am etc J.
Augustus Browne Esqr Newcastle 9th [August] 1791
Forster Lane London
Sir I have this day drawn a Bill on you payable to Messrs Fariers & Atkinson of Lincolns Inn Fields for £500 at One Month dated this day on Sir Thos Blackett’s Account & which I doubt not you will duly honor. I am etc J E Blackett
Messrs Fariers & Atkinson Newcastle 9th Augt 1791
Lincolns Inn Fields London
Gentlem Inclosed you will recieve my Bill on Augustus Browne Esqr for £500 at One Month dated this day to enable you to Pay Mr Erskine’s half Years Interest of £25000 at 4 per Cent due from Sir Jno Trevelyan Bart the 13th ins[tan]t _ Please to acknowledge the Reciept of the same and send me the usual Reciept. I am e
Hexham, Augst.10th 1791
Dear Sir,
I recd. your letter dated July 18th after a long time at Ediningburgh [sic] where I had been travelling and visiting about in the neighbourhood at several towns and friends houses, so that I could not give you an Answer directly as I could not be determin’d upon the time of my return. However now, after the Newcastle Assizes and my own business in this country are finished, I hope to return to Bretton the first week in September, when I shall
J. E. Blackett Esqr Mayor N.Castle Dukesf[iel]d 2 Sep'r 1791
Sir
Below you have an Acco't of the Quantity of Lead deliv'd this year f'm the several
Mills and a calculation of what will be deliv'd to the 31st of Octob'r in case the weather permits the Carriage to continue on till then. Viz
Deliv'd supposed to be
Mr John Beatson Newcastle 3d Septemr 1791
Cinderhill near Wakefield Yorkshire
Sir Please to send a Pack of Bends for the use of Sir Thomas Blackett’s Lead Mines at Coalcleugh and direct them to J.E.Blackett Esqr N[e]wcastle, at the same time send him a Bill of the same & he will remit you the Amount I am etc J.S
Augustus Browne Esqr Newcastle 13th Septr 1791
Forster Lane London
Sir I have this day sent you by Jacksons & Jennings the London Carriers a Piece fine Silver containing 1463 1/2 Ounces which I desire that you will place to Account with Sir Thos Blackett Bart as usual at the Market Price and advise me on your Reciept of it. I am etc J.E.B
Mr Richd Noble Bretton Newcastle 13th Sept 1791
near Wakefield Yorkshire
Sir Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at Forty days dated this day for £2000 on Sir Thos Blackett’s Accot, the Reciept of which please to acknowledge. I am etc J.E.B
P.S. The Bankers in this place have come to an Agreement not to draw Bi
Mr Walton Junr’s Comp[limen]ts to Mr Ruddock, and has recd his favor of the 15th Inst accompanying the Minutes of the Meeting in Allendale Town on Thursday the 11th of last month, but no Minutes made since tho[ugh] Mr Ruddock says he sent the Resolutions formed at the first meeting & since. Mr Walton thinks it will be too much to divide 1/3d of the whole of the Commons, and it requires great consideration what part sh[oul]d be divided. It is presumed that all the Incroachments that have be
John Ibbetson Esq.r
Farnacres 28th September 1791
Sir,
Notices having been given of our intention to apply to Parliament for an Act for the Division of Allendale & Hexhamshire Commons, upon which the Hospitals Tenants have Common Right for Estates in Hexhamshire the rental of which amounts to £701. 17. 6 per ann., we have tho[ugh]t. proper to take the sentiments of the Tenants upon this business, and find that they are in general for a Division. — We thought it the more necess
Messrs Goslings Bankers Newcastle 30th Sept 1791
Fleet Street London
Gentlemn Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at One Month dated this day for £112-10, being one Quarters Composition Rent for the Tithe Ore of Weardale Lead Mines due the 19th Augt last to The Revd Heny Hardinge From Sir Thomas Blackett Bart _ Please to advise me on your Reciept of the Bill and send me
Mr Richd Noble Newcastle 8th Octor 1791
Bretton Yorkshire
Sir Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at 40 days dated this day for £2000 on Sir Thomas Blackett’s Account
Please to acknowledge the receipt of the Bill & acquaint Sir Thos with the same
Naples Octr. 18th 1791
Dear Skelton,
I was in hopes of having had the pleasure of hearing from you before this time, as we are very glad to know what stirrings there are in our own Country, for letters are so long coming that it is an age before we can get an Answer. I am afraid you will think it very early my beginning to talk of money when I drew so lately, but in the month of February I shall be obliged to trouble you to remit me some to my Friend Hammersley, I have wrote to Rich
Mr Richd Noble Bretton Newcastle 19th Octor 1791
near Wakefield Yorkshire
Sir According to Sir Thos Blackett’s Order I have Shipp’d, on Board the Goldthorpe Capt Brown for Hull, One Hundred & Twelve Pieces Refin’d Lead which I hope will come safe, the Weight & Price you have below I am etc J.E.B
Q[uan]ty Cwt q lb
112 P[iece]s Refin’d Lead q 168 - -
Mr John Beatson Cinderhill NewC: 21st Octor 1791
near Wakefield Yorkshire
Sir I received your Letter of the 7 ins[tan]t informing me that you had sent two Packs of Bends for the use of Sir Thos Blackett’s Lead mines amounting to £78- 15-10, & inclosed I send a Bill for that amount, drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at 40 days dated this day _ Please to advise me on your Reciept of the same
Messrs Farrers & Atkinson Newcastle 15th Nov 1791
Lincoln Inns Fields
London
Gentlemen Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at Forty days dated this for £440; £240 of wch is to pay half a Years Interest of £12000 at 4 per Cent due to Mrs Pill from Sir Jno Trevelyan Bart the 1st Decem next the remaining £200 is to enable you to pay Sir John Trevelyan’s
Messrs Gosling Bankers NewC 15th Nov 1791
Fleet Street London
Gentlemn Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at Forty days dated this day for £112-10, being One Quarters Composition for the Tithe Ore of Weardale Lead Mines due 19th ins[tan]t from Sir Thos Blackett Bart to The Revd Henry Hardinge. As Mr Blackett is from home you will please to advise me on your Rec[eip
Willm Emm Esqr NewC. 15th Nov 1791
Auckland Castle
Sir Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at forty Days dated this day for £231-5, being One Quarter of a Years Composition for the Lot Ore of Weardale Lead Mines due 26th ins[tan]t to the Lord Bishop of Durham from Sir Thos Blackett Bart _ As Mr Blackett is from Home you will please to advise me on your
Farnacres, 18th. Novem. 1791
Jn Ibbetson Esq.
Sir,
Herewith you receive the Moor Masters Reports of Mines worked and unworked in the Manor of Alston Moor for Nine Months ending at Midsummer last and also an Account of all the Lead Ore raised at the sundry Lead Mines in the Manor of Alston Moor from Mich[aelmas] 1789 to Michs. 1790 with the Duty thereof all which you are desired to lay before the Board.
On the 28th Septemr. last we acquainted you with an intention of
Mr Nicholas Ruddock Farnacres 19th Novemr [1]791
Atty at Law Hexham
Mr Nicholas Ruddock
Dear Sir
I have recd your favor inclosing Copies of Messrs Bates and Fryer’s Letter in answer to yours to them and of Mr Richardson’s Letter relative to the Division of the Hexhamshire and Allendale Commons. I do not think the Letter of the former <cod> be expected to obtain contain more or even so much as they have said but it shews eviden
Auguss Browne Esqr NCastle 21st Novr 1791
Forster Lane London
Sir I have this day sent you by Jacksons & Jennings the London Carriers a Piece fine Silver containing Sixteen Hundred & Eleven Ounces which I desire that you will place to Account with Sir Thos Blackett Bart as usual at the Market Price & advise me on your Receipt of it. I am for J E Blackett Esqr yours etc J.S
Mr Nicholas Ruddock Farnacres 25th Novemr 1791
Attorney at Law Hexham
Mr Nicholas Ruddock
Dear Sir
I have the Pleasure to inform you that the Commissrs and Governors of Greenwich Hospital at a Genl Court held the 17th Inst resolved to join in the intended Application to Parliament for an Act to divide the Allendale and Hexhamshire Commons provided the Terms upon which such Division may be proposed to be carried into Execution shall be f