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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 10 Apr 1786
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 10th. April 1786
Dear Sir
This day we have recd. your Letter of the 6th. Inst and below you have an Account for the last Cake of Silver as it will stand after you make a further payment on our Acct. which we must by leave to request when our worthy Friend Mr. Smeaton calls upon you. We are
Dear Sir Your Obliged Hble Servts.
Walton & Turner
567 Ounces of Fine Silver at 5s/8 1/2 d £161 16 7
Deduct
Cash
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 18 Apr 1786
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 18 Apl. 1786
We have recd. your Letter of the 10th. Inst with Matthew Temperley’s two last Weeks Coal and Cinder Accounts.
The weather is still very cold, but we notwithstanding hope that it will enable you to get the Smelting finished against the time you mention, and we wd. have you keep the Silver ’til you can send all away together; and as we have cut the Piece of Silver which is here into 5 pieces we desire that Box may be made so much
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Stephenson – 21 Apr 1786
John Stephenson Esqr. Hull Newcastle April 21st 1786
Dear Sir I am favoured with your letter of the 17th inst. & observe that you have thoughts of sending a Ship to Venice with Lead & Allum in Case Mr Rowe can procure a suitable one on reasonable terms; You may have 30 or 40 Tons of Refin’d or Common Lead at any time you Please, of which I have informed Mr Rowe, the Price of Refin’d will be £16 . 10 . - . p Fodr.
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Lyde Browne – 22 Apr 1786
Lyde Browne Esq Newcastle April 22nd 1786
Foster Lane - London
Sir I have this day sent you by John & James Jackson the London Carriers a Piece fine Silver Containing Eight Hundred & Nineteen Ounces & a half which I desire you will Place to Account with Sir Thomas Blackett Bart as usual at the Market Price advising me on your Receipt of it. I am etc John E. Blackett
Letter – Thomas Richard Beaumont to Mark Skelton – 24 Apr 1786
Turin April 24 1786
Dear Sir,
I was favoured with yours Last Night dated 4 April, from Venice; and am very sorry to find that I am likely to Lose part of my Estate, and could have wished it had been settled in my Father’s time, however am much obliged to you, for the trouble you have had, and make no doubt but you will do everything in your power for me; I would have you have the best opinion you can respecting the business. I will most certainly be Home in September if not befor
Letter – John Donkin to Judith Baker – 24 Apr 1786
Sandoe 24 April 1786.
Madam,
I rec’d your Letter of the 14 Inst. and since which I have also had a Letter from Mr. Wood acquainting me that the Trustees agree to the Proposal; and requests my sending such Instructions on behalf of Mr. Errington & Co. as are necessary for preparing a Lease from. Will. Routledge, who had likewise rec’d Notice of the Proposal being accepted, came over hither & recommended my sending a Draft of a Lease, as he appeared confident that wo
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 6 May 1786
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 6 May 1786
Dear Sir,
By this Days London Waggon we have sent you a Box containing 1139 Ounces of fine Silver being the Sweepings of our Shop for the last years Lead Ore. Being very much hurried we have not more to say than that we are with best comp[limen]ts to yourself, Family & Mr. Smeaton.
Dear Sir Your most Hble Servts.
Walton & Turner
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 7 May 1786
Sir Thos. Blackett Bart. Newcastle May 7th. 1786
Bretton - Yorkshire
Dear Sir I wrote to you the 14th Ulto. to which I refer you. Inclosed I have sent you Bell Carr & Cos. Bill on Castell & Co.at Thirty days dated the 5th inst. for One Thousand Pounds the receipt of which you will please to acknowledge. The several Pays for your Lead Mines & Mills are made amounting to £41802.7.7.
The death of my Partner Mr Simpso
letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 9 May 1786
J E Blackett Esqr N[ew]castle Dukesf[iel]d 9th May 1786
Sir
Mr Salkeld died last Night shall wate your Orders as to Mr Westgarth who has taken care during his illness that the Business at the Mill & Refinery has been properly conducted – We have started the Lead Carriage f[ro]m all the Mill & hope in a little time that some of it will be got to Blaydon & am y[ou]rs etc IH
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Alexander Renton – 13 May 1786
Alexr Renton Esqr. Newcastle May 13th 1786
Hordington House
near Berwick on Tweed
Sir I am desired by my friend Sir John Trevelyan to Answer yours to him of the 27th Ulto setting forth the state of the Fisheries in the River Tweed owing to the many abuses Committed & that in the Present Association, the Subscription entered into is insufficient for the Purposes of enforcing the Acts for the Prevention of those abuses
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 27 May 1786
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 27th. May 1786
Dear Sir,
We duly received your Letter of the 17th. Inst and have this day drawn upon you for £293. 19. 3 being the amount of 1139 Ounces of fine Silver at 5s. 9d. per Ounce after deducting £23. 10s. which you will be pleased to pay to John Snowball, Carpenter of Greenwich Hospital for our Bill payable to him or Order Twenty Days after Date. The Bill draws upon you for £290. 19. 3 is pay[a]ble 50 Days after Date.
You are desire
Letter – Thomas Richard Beaumont to Mark Skelton – 29 May 1786
Paris May 29th 86
Dear Sir,
I am so far on my Return and hope soon to have the pleasure of shaking you by the Hand, a Month will be the outside, but don’t say I am either here, or on my return so soon, my reason when I see You, I hope by that time, my affairs will be a little arranged, and that I shall not be tormented by these Genius’s, I will see you on my Return immediately, and let you know what day I shall be at home. I hope to God, I shall be better received, than I expect
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Stephenson – 31 May 1786
John Stevenson Esqr. Hull Newcastle May 31st 1786
Dear Sir Your favour of the 19th inst. I duly received & observe that you had wrote to your Friends, & upon receipt of their Answer you would determine as to your Purchasing of me the 100 Fodder of Lead: I yesterday made a Sale of 20,000 ps. of Lead at £16 . 2 . 6 for Common & £16 . 7 . 6 for Refin’d, one half to Lancaster & Co, the other to Freemans & Co. the f
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 2 Jun 1786
Sir Thos. Blackett Bart. Newcastle June 2nd. 1786
Bretton - Yorkshire
Dear Sir I wrote to you the 16th Ulto. to wch. I refer you. Inclosed I send you a Bill drawn by Bell Carr & Co. on Castell & Co. of this date at a Month for £1000. the receipt of which you will please to acknowledge. On the 30th Ulto. I sold 20,000 Pieces of Lead at £16.2.6 for Common & £16.7.6 for Refin’d, one half to Doctor Hall, the other to Mr
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 2 Jun 1786
Sir Thos. Blackett Bart. Newcastle June 2nd. 1786
Bretton - Yorkshire
Dear Sir Inclosed I send you a Bill drawn by Bell Carr & Co. on Castell & Co. dated the 23rd inst. at a Months date for £1000. the receipt of wch. you will please to acknowledge. I received Mr Noble’s letters of the 5th and 12th inst. with a drawing of a Machine for Grinding Bones for which I am obliged to him. I have given directions to Mr Forster &
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 2 Jun 1786
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 2 June 1786
We have recd. your Letters of the 23rd. & 29th. Ult with Matthew Temperley’s four Weeks Coal Accounts one Cinder Acct. & the Lead Mill Operation for last Month, also 12 Assays. A Ream of Paper is ordered as also 100 Casks of Bone Ashes, and as to the Grindstone we desire you will give Directions about that yourselves. It must be sent to the care of Mr. Geo. Goodbed and he to be desired to forward it to Dukes Hall, and to give Dir
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 9 Jun 1786
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 9th. June 1786
Dear Sir,
On the 27th. Last we drew a Bill upon you for £23. 10 pay[a]ble 20 days after Date to the Order of Mr. John Snowball of Greenwich Carpenter to the Hospital and who you will find Stammers very much in his Speech. I send this to stop payment of the Bill till you hear further from me because he has not thought proper to acknowledge the Recet. of the Bill. I am
Dear Sir Your most Hble Servt.
Nich. Walton Junr.
Letter – Richard Beaumont to Mark Skelton – 10 Jun 1786
Sir
I desired the favour of Mr <Beatson> to give you a small Parsell wch. I desire the favour of you to give to Mr Beaumont of Darton when he returns home and if you will direct the inclosed letter to him you will oblige Yr Obt. Hble Svt
R:H: Beaumont
10. June 1786
[on verso:] Mr Skelton/ Birthwaite / near Barnsley
[a second undated note from same to same might relate to the same parcel]
Mr Beaumont of Whitley presents his Comps. To Mr Skelton & desires the
Letter – Westgarth Forster to Unknown – 12 Jun 1786
1786 June 12th: Viewed Fallowfield Mine
We are of opinion that the effectual Method of making a sufficient trial of Fallowfield Vein in the Sills west of the old Workings which are entirely whole, will be to make the old Man Level into a Horse Level, which is now already driven 237 faths. eastward from North Tyne, which may be done at 5/- a fathom, or thereabouts, after that is done to drive the present Level forehead in the same North String, which she now stands in, and upon a true
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Edward Blackett – 12 Jun 1786
The Lead Stewards have been with me this Morning they yesterday was at Fallowfield Grove & took a View of the Old Level, they say that only 3 Fathom has been lost in the Carrying it <…> wch. they imagine was done to prevent the Tryal from getting into the Level, they recommend that it may be carried on as a Horse Level [struck out: ‘wch. will be a considerable Saving & soon Pay for that Extra <Expence>’] tho attended with some additional expence will soon Pay itself [st
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 13 Jun 1786
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 13 June 1786
We have recd. yours of the 12th. Inst. All is right as to the Deals sent you, and we altered the Order for the Deals you sent for because we saw that the <Tare> was to take place. Under the Circumstances you mention we desire the Deals may be nailed with the <Sap> on, and by all means on the outside of the Posts, and when the <Sap> fails it may be dressed off and additional Deals put on, but we think it will not be amiss
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 18 Jun 1786
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 18 June 1786
We have recd. your Letters, but have not time to enter into Particulars about them.
When last at Langley Mill we desired you would acquaint us what Sum we are to expect from Mr. Wm. Jobling for the Materials sent to the Blagill Company in the Refinery &c as we expect very soon to see him. We desire to hear from you with those particulars, for tho’ we believe you did acquaint us once with them, we have not now time to look the
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Westgarth Forster – 23 Jun 1786
Mr W Forster Allenheads NCastle June 23rd . 1786
Sir I am desired by Mr Blackett to acquaint you that he has had another letter from Sir Thos. Clavering respecting the Workings at Harwood Shield; insisting upon the Ore being given up to him and that you discontinue the Winning of Stones there. Mr B. desires this may be done immediately so as to prevent a Law Suit wch. would be very disagreeable to Sir Thos. Blackett.
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Isaac Hunter – 24 Jun 1786
Mr Isaac Hunter Dukesfield Newcastle 24th June 1786
Sir Mr Blackett has this day acquainted me that he has seen Mr Humble who agrees to build up the Wall at Apperley Bank Foot at his own Expence & in this Case you are to suffer his Carts to pass paying a Acknowledgement of 2s. 6d Yearly to you as an Agent of Sir Thomas Blacketts; Subject to your Approbation, or not, as you find the Roads are. We have this day received a piece of fine Silve
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 27 Jun 1786
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 27th. June 1786
Dear Sir,
By the Newcastle Carrier for London we intend forwarding a Box to you on Saturday 1st. July containing 800 Ounces of fine Silver.
You are desired to be so obliging as Pay Richard Probert for 100 Casks of Bone Ashes and be so good as make out the Account upon a fourpenny Stamp and get him to sign a Recet. which you’ll send us when you write on Receiving the Silver. The account will be as follows.
The Commissione
