Messrs Gosling Bankers Newcastle 21st Feby 1792
Fleet Street London
Gentln Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Sir MW 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 from Sir Thos Blackett to The Revd Henry Hardinge the 19th inst __ Please to advise me on your Reciept of the Bill and acquaint Mr Hardinge with th
Mr Willm Tweedale Bretton Newcastle 21st Feby 1792
near Wakefield Yorkshire
Dear Sir I was favoured with your Letter of the 17th inst and Yesterday the Book came safe to hand which I shall get forward as fast as other Business will permit me.
Inclosed I send you a Bill for £36-1-3 to pay Mr E Dickinson for a pack of Bends he sent to Allenheads Lead Mines, & as I do not know the Places name where Mr E Dickinson lives I ma
Farnacres 24th February 1792
Dear Sir
I duly rec[eive]d your letter of the 18th Inst which surprised me not a little as I clearly understood at our meeting at Mr Herons that the two Commissioners to be chosen by the Lord of the Manor and the Commissioners And Governors of Greenwich Hospital were to chuse a third Commissioner but I now see that Ground is abandoned, and what astonishes me still more I find that the Petition as properly (in my opinion) drawn has been altered and m
Dear Sir
I wish the Petition had been permitted to remain as at first ingrossed in general terms, but that is now over,
You have favoured me with the Amount of Mr Straceys Bill to wit £302.19s.10d in Henshaw and Melkridge Business, which has induced me to look at Mr White in Acomb Divn which I find to be £229.16s.10d the Difference is £73.3s.- I paid all the Printers Bills etc, which I suppose in the former was discharged by the Commrs - but no Inference can be drawn in either Case as
Sir
I will be much obliged to you for informing me, whether or not, any thing was mentioned in the Bill for the Division of our Common, relating to the Corn tithes, belonging the Curacy of Allendale. I have lost my own Mare lately, and have not yet got another, by wch means I was detained from attending at the Black Bull on Tuesday last.
I will be much obliged to you, besides payment, if you’l get me the Money due for the Corf Rods which were sent to the Corver last Summer if you think
Dear Sir
I have made such Progress in the Division Bill, that I shall be ready for you on Friday, but I fear such Objections will be made to the including Catton Town fields that it must be given up, however so far as my Labour extended it is over. there should be a Certainty before we meet as to the third Commer. I have made it agreeable to what we thought the best way , that is, the two to name a third, but it may be altered if I knew how - I have <minuted> nothing as to Mr Jos Carr
Dr Sir
I have wrote one Letter to you this Morning and must trouble you with a Second to enquire who is to make the Survey and whether the payment for it is necessary to be invested in the Bill, I have a Copy of a paper signed by Mr Bates & Mr Fryer containing Propositions in which the Survey <JP> first plan is 2d per Acre - plans to annex to the Award 30 Gs - and then follows - Survey of the inclosed Lands if necessary for the purpose of valuing, 4d per Acre - this seems loose - th
Jno Bell of Hexham Abbey stands seised of a parcel of Land called Bankhead Riggs in Hexham Townfields and sevl Houses and Parcels of Land at Nether Coaten Hill in Allendale and a House and Parcel of Land called Fallside House in Allendale all Copyhold held of the Manor of Hexham in Trust for Sir Thos Blackett Barts
Isaac Hunter of Dukesfield stands seised of or interested in a parcel of Land on Dotland Common and a Tenement called Nether Staples Copyhold held of the Manor of Hexham
£500 Newcastle Bank 2d March 1792
Forty days after Date pay to the Order of John Erasmus Blackett Esqr
Five Hundred Pounds Value Recieved
For Sir M W Ridley Bart Cookson Widdrington Bell & Co
To Messrs Castell Powell Sumner & Co Thos Gibson
No 20928 London
Mr John Bell Farnacres 3d March 1792
Sir
Soon after I received your Letter of the 3d Ult: I wrote to the Commissioners and Governors of Greenwich Hospital relative to the Proposition of Sir Thomas Blackett to divide the Land in dispute between Langley Barony and the Regality of Hexham of which I before gave you an intimation. I now have the satisfaction to acquaint you that the Commissioners and Governors of the Hospital being actuated by the same motives as Sir Thomas Blacket
Terni March 3d. 1792
Dear Skelton,
I wrote to you from Rome desiring you would let me hear from you at Nice, since that I have received your answer to the question I had asked you. I was sorry to have so bad accounts of the Baronet, it has given Diana a good deal of uneasiness, and I have the pleasure to tell you we have determined upon coming directly straight home, we are now on our way, tho’ she is by no means well, yet the anxiety about her Father was we to remain any longer ab
Mr William Tweedale Newcastle 9th March 1792
Bretton Yorkshire
Sir Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Sir M W Ridley Cookson & Co on Castell & Co at 40 days dated this day for £2000 on Sir Thos Blackett’s Account the Reciept of which you will please to Acknowledge I am etc J.E.B
£2000
Messrs O & I Farrer Newcastle 10th March 1792
Lincoln Inns Fields London
Gentn I was favoured with your letter of the 7th inst & according to your desire I inclose you a bill drawn by Sir M W Ridley Cookson & Co on Castell & Co at 20 days dated this day for £138-8- for 3 Mo[nth]s & 14 days Interest of Mrs Pitt’s Mortgages to the 15th Inst. Please to advise me on your Reci[e]pt of the Bill
Sir Thos Blackett Bart Newcastle 11th March 1792
Bretton Yorkshire
D[ea]r Sir I wrote to you from Musselburgh the 22rd Ulto & am apprehensive that my letter has miscarried, as I have not heard from you I hope that this will find you & the New married couple perfectly well & that you have had a good account of Mr & Mrs Beaumont
On the 9th Inst I sent to Mr Tweedale a Bill on London for £2000 on A
Augustus Browne Esqr Newcastle 13th March 1792
Forster Lane London
Sir I have this day sent you by Jackson & Jennings the London Carriers a Piece fine Silver containing 1453 Ounces which I desire you will place to Account with Sir Thos Blackett Bart as usual and advise me on your Reciept of it. I hope that you will allow me the best price as I have been very much pressed to supply a House in London with a
John Ibbetson Esq Farnacres 18th March, 1792
Sir
On Tuesday last I attended a Meeting of the Proprietors of Estates having Common Rights on Hexhamshire and Allendale Common for the purpose of reading over the Bill intended to be presented this Session of Parliament for dividing and inclosing part of the said Common and Stinting the remainder. The Meeting was at Hexham and consisted of near upon one Hundred Persons and the busyness got thro’ with great unanimity. Upwards of Nin
Mr. Everest Farnacres 19th March 1792
Dear Sir
By the Mail Coach which sets out from Newcastle this morning I send you a copy of the Bill intended to be presented to Parliament this Session for Dividing parts of Hexhamshire and Allendale Commons and Stinting the remainder. It is directed to the care of Mr Holmes 156 Strand and I must beg you will call for it. I hope you will find it tollerably accurate and that with the additions in pencil which are also noted in the margin w
John Ibbetson Esq Farnacres 19th March 1792
Sir
Herewith you receive Heads of Bill for dividing and inclosing certain parts of the Commons Moors or Tracts of Waste Land called Hexhamshire and Allendale Common in the Regality or Manor of Hexham which you are desired to lay before the Board. I have taken the first opportunity of sending them not having had it in my power to inform you of the precise intended Terms till I got a Copy of the Bill and that was not till Friday night. I
Farnacres 23d March 1792
Dear Sir
I thank you for your last favor of yesterday and am glad to see that no doubt is entertained respecting the obtaining a sufficient number of Names to come up to three Quarters of the amount of the whole of the Rentals in Hexhamshire and Allendale. I have thought it necessary to send you a Letter to Mr Ibbetson as well as Mr Everest. I have acquainted Mr I with the object of your journey and that you will hope to have his assistance in procur
Farnacres 23d March 1792
Mr Tristram Everest
Dear Sir
As I understand something is going forw[ar]d in the House of Commons concerning the Repair of the Roads in the County of Berwick in Scotland I wish you to take the first opportunity of waiting upon Mr Ibbetson relative to this Busyness. Mr Heron will I hope be able to set out for London to morrow or the next Day and will I doubt not take the first opportunity of seeing or sending to you. If you sh[oul]d be in Town he wi
Mr W Tweedale Bretton Yorkshire Newcastle 23d March 1792
D[ea]r Sir Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Ridley & Co on Castell & Co for £2000 on Sir Thos Blackett’s Accot the Reciept of which you will please to acknowledge
I am etc Jaso Straker
£2000 Newcastle
John Ibbetson Esq. Farnacres 24th March 1792
Sir
On the 28th September last we gave the Board reason to think that parts of the Hexhamshire and Allendale Common would be sold for defraying Expences of obtaining an Act carrying the Division into execution and it was so at first intended but upon a careful examination of the improveable parts of the Common it was the opinion of the Persons who made the examination that no part could be sold without causing inconvenience to the Pro
I understand Mr Bell who accompanied Mr Heron to London is returned with the consent Bill it being I am told necessary that every resident & Proprietor of an Estate having right of Common upon Hexhamshire & Allendale Common sh[oul]d be waited upon and the answers of such as refuse to sign to be taken down in writing. I am very glad the Bill in general meets with your approbation. A great deal of attention was paid to the forming of Heads for the Bill in which I bestowed not a litt
Farnacres 9th Aprill 1792
Sir
As there is a Bill now before the House of Commons for the Dividing and Inclosing parts and Stinting the remainder of Hexhamshire and Allendale Common I take the liberty of intimating to you that it will very probably be well taken by Sir Thomas Blackett that you sh[oul]d interest yourself in favor of the Bill and in getting it thro’ the House with every dispatch. The Quantity of Ground the object of Division & Stinting is estimated at 60
Mr Tristram Everest Farnacres 9th April 1792
Dear Sir
Saturdays Post brought me the favor of your Letter of the 5th Inst. and I am glad anything has been got done in favor of Lime and Limestones in the Berwickshire Road Act. I think the opposers of the Bill have acted very foolishly however I hope the Tolls as now intended will not hurt the Lime Trade and I think the demand for Coals will continue as at present or nearly so. The Meeting at the British Coffee House seemed to pr