Dr Sir,
I this day sent H Bulman a piece fine Silver weighing 955 oz
[added underneath in a different hand:] H.B. 752 ½
On the 23d will wait on you for Subsistence for Col Beaumont’s Workmen, When I shall trouble you for £300.
I am Dr Sir Yr Obt Servt I Hunter
Dukesfd 16th July 98
PS. I have sent what Refined & Comon Lead we had at this mill to Blaydon
To Jno E Blackett, Charlotte Sq, Newcastle
Mess Browne & Brind Newcastle 23d July 1798
Foster Lane London
Gentn I have this day drawn a Bill on you payable to the Order of Surtees Burdon & Co at 20 days dated this day for £700-6 being the Balance of your Account for fine Silver with Col Beaumont & which I doubt not you will duly honor. also will send you by Jacksons & Potts the London Carriers, this day, a Pe fine Silver Containing Nine Hu
Mess Brown & Brind Newcastle 24th July 1798
Foster Lane London
Gentn Since I wrote to you yesterday I have received another Pe of fine Silver which have sent you by Jackson’s & Potts the London Carriers Containing One Thousand & Seventy Seven Ounces which I desire you will place to Account with Col Beaumont as usual at the Market Price & advise me on your receipt of the two Pieces I am etc
Durham, 1st August 1798
My Lord,
I have just seen Scruton, he has not as I imagined communicated the Content of the Memorandum, which I left with Mr. Bernard. I told him as indeed I did before that he had much overstated your Lordships Intention as to the portion of the Allotment to be given for the Maintenance of the Chapel, and also mistaken the Mode and Power to the Commissioners for Enfranchising. In the Conversation he seemed convinced, says it was hastily drawn up, and he w
Dr Sir,
I recd a line from Mr <P..> Harrison requesting to have 10 tons of the Old Metal, he proposes giving £4 pr Ton delivered at Blaydon. I shall bring his letter with me on the 17th inst for your opinion; & at that time will thank you for £300 for Col Beaumont’s Workmen.
I am Dr Sir Yr Obt Servt I Hunter
Dukesfd 8th Aug 1798
To Jno E Blackett, Charlotte Sq, Newcastle
Auckland Castle Aug. 22nd 1798
Dear Sir,
I consider the proposed inclosure of the waste hands in the parish of Stanhope as a measure, which will not only be very beneficial to the Country, but will (if properly arranged with regard to the rights and interests of the parties) produce a considerable advantage to every person interested, and among them both an immediate and prospective advantage to the Rectorial and Episcopal estate.
As however some questions may occur relat
Durham 24th August 1798
My Lord,
Mr. Heron answers me that for the benefit of his health he is going with his Family to Tynemouth on Tuesday, and therefore proposes coming here on Monday. I have written to him again and expect he will breakfast with me that morning _ so as that we may be at Auckland by twelve or one o’ clock, and accomplish his wish of returning to Newcastle the same Evening _ in case that time happens to be convenient for your Lordship and Mr. Bernard.
M
Auckland Castle Aug. 24 1798
Mowbray,
Mr. Harding was here yesterday & informed me that he shd. wish in any arrangemt. to be made as to his rights & claims to be advised by Mr. Hopper Williamson. This is the Man agreeable to me as Mr. H.W. is the person to whom, in point of character, I, probably & almost all the parties wd. have the most satisfaction in a reference. It is therefore very material that he shd. be consulted before the meeting on Thursday next, as to his
Newcastle 25 Augt 1798
Sir
I have called once at your House last Week, & three times there and at the Office since but was not so fortunate as to meet with you, Our London House wrote me last Week to buy of you 200 Barrels of Litharge for them which as you have sold the other Houses at 15£ they expect you will not charge them more please to send us a tickett for them.
We shall soon be in need of a Weekly or monthly supply of Lead and wish to take it from you either at a fixed or unf
Ballindaloch August 27th 98
My dear Sir,
We arrived here last night after passing some days at Blair with the Duke's family, who I think are the most pleasant people I ever met with, their attention makes every thing so affable & without any the least Form. We found here some Gentleman & Ladies of the General's relations very pleasant, & agreeable society, and the place very <healthy> he keeps an excellent House; enclosed I send you a letter from Mr Dixon, h
Sir
We have a letter to Day from Our London House saying they are quite out of Litharge and have some large Orders and request us to find them 100 barrels more, please therefore to send us a Tickett for the other 100 Barrels and as to the 5s per ton more which you mentioned we must leave that to yourself. We are Sir
Your most hble Servts
Walker Fishwick & Co
Newcastle Aug 29 1798
J E Blackett Esq/ NC
Suppose the Allotments to be 8000 Acres & Leased for 21 Years -
for the first seven at 5s pr Acre making £2,000 pr an
for the second seven at 6 pr Acre making £2,400 pr an
for the third seven at 7 pr Acre making £2,800 pr an
in the first seven years would be received - 14,000
2 Parsonage houses 3000
2 Churches 5800
Curates - 200 pr an 2800
Agent under the trustees 1000
Rector a 10th 1400
Durham. 3 Sep 1798
The Amount of the Rector’s Allotment in lieu of Tythes out of the new Inclosures to be referred entirely to the Commissioners.
The Tythes of the old Inclosures to be compensated for by a Money Payment to be fixed by the Commiss[ione]rs; unless where the Rector & any of the Proprietors unite in preferring an Allotment in Land.
The Lord to have an Allotment of 1/16th of the Commons:- this allotment, it is supposed, will be between 1500 &
Newhouse Sept 5th1798
Sir,
Yours of the 30thof last Month I received and am sorry to hear that it has been reported to the Bishop that my Father or I am so much adverse to the intended Division in this Country, as we don’t expressing our sentiments fully on that subject to any one but your self & Mr <Heron>. Mr Harding was here wishing to hear what we thought expecting the same when my father told him that he feared that it w[oul]d injure the working of the mines if Damag
Durham Septr. 8th 1798. –
Sir
Being now engaged in settling the Accounts of the late Mr. Pearson with the Bishop of Durham & being in Want of some Information relative to the Charge against Coll. Beaumont as Moor Master of Weardale I will be very much obliged to you if you will furnish me with Copies of the Rects. given for this Charge for Seven Years past. –
As his Lordhip wishes this Account to be settled in the Course of a few Days I will take it as a Favo
Mess Brown & Brind NCastle 11 Sept 1798
Foster Lane London
Gentn I have this day drawn a Bill on you payable to the Order of Mess Surtees Burdon & Co at 20 days dated this day for £553-17-8 being in full of your Account with Col Beaumont for fine Silver sent you, & which I doubt not you will duly honor I am etc J.E.B
Mess Girling Bankers London NCastle 11th Sept 1798
Gentn Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Mess Surtees Burdon & Co on Mess Barclays & Co at 20 days dated this day for Four Hundred & Fifty Pounds, being half a Years Composition for the Tithe Ore of Weardale Leadmines due 11th July last to the Revd H Hardinge from Col Beaumont _ Please to advise me on your receipt of the Bill & inform Mr Hardinge of the same
N.castle 11th. Sept. 1798.
Sir
By Mr. Blackett’s direction I write to inform you, that as he understands Mr. Beaumont intends to send Mr. C. Blackett & him some venison, he desires it may be quite cold before it is sent of from Bretton, otherwise it spoils in the Carriage & that he expects it to be here by the 19th. Inst.. By the Leeds Waggon is a Box directed for Col. Beaumont, containing Guns &c. which I hope you will receive safe –
I am Sir Your Most Obedt. Hble. S
Thomas Maynard Esqr Durham NCastle 12th Sept 1798
Sir By Mr Blacketts directions I inclose you Mess Surtees Burdon & Cos Bill on Mess Barclays & Co at 30 days for £150-1-2 which will be in full for One Year’s Rent due from Thos Rd Beaumont Esqr the 1st Aug last to the Lord Bishop of Durham for the Office of Moor Master of Weardale, with 1s-2d for Acquit[an]ce & Duty & likewise a Copy of the late Mr Pearsons’s receipts
Perth Sepr 13 98
My dear Sir,
I have the favour of yours and we are much obliged to you for the use of Mrs Collingwood’s House. I hope that it is not on our Account she is so obliging as to give up her staying over the Races, we purpose being at Edinburgh tomorrow and shall stay Saturday and go to Admiral Rodhams on Monday, & will thank you to desire mrs Collingwood’s maid to have the Beds ready for us on Tuesday evening. We left Lord Adam Gordons this morning where we arrived
The Revd Mr Hardinge Newcastle 13th Sept 1798
Stanhope Durham
Sir I am sorry that I was away from home when you did me the favor to call on me. I wished to have had some conversation with you respecting the proposed Division of the Common & Stinted Pastures in Weardale; I am apprehensive that it may be injurious to Mr Beaumont’s interest in those parts, for if care be not taken in the Bill that a reservation be m
Edinburgh Sepr 14th 1798
My dear Sir,
We are this moment arrived safe & well from our Tour, which we have passed very pleasantly. I have by this post wrote to Bretton to have a Buck killed, I hope it will prove good. I fear it will require a good deal of Wine to get it down. I beg you will present my Compliments to the Brethren of the Buffalo, & had I been favored with your letter sooner it would have met with their Approbation much better. Mr Beaumont unites with me in best re
Thomas Maynard Esqr Durham NCastle 15th Sept 1798
Sir In answer to your Lre of the 13th Inst Mr Blackett desires me to inform you that upon examination all the Receipts given for Rent for the Office of Moor Master for seven years back, are signed by Mr Pearson, except one given 29 Mar 1797 for £225-4 being for 1 1/2 Yr’s Moor Masters Rent, which is signed T Maynard for G Pearson Esqr Recr General for the Bp Durham; &
Messrs Browne & Brind NCastle 18 Sept 1798
Foster Lane London
Gentn I have this day sent you by Jacksons & Potts the London Carriers a Piece of fine Silver, containing Sixteen Hundred & Ninety Two & one half ounces which I desire that you will place to account with T R Beaumont Esqr as usual at the markett Price & advise me on your receipt of the same I am etc
Morpeth Septr. 21st 1798
Sir,
Coln. Beaumont and myself beg to inform you that it was the general wish of the Gentlemen who attended the races this year, that Lord Morpeth and yourself should be named as Stewards for Morpeth races next year – That being the case we have taken the liberty of appointing you both, hoping you would have no objection, and we remain
Sir
Your Obedt. Humle. Servts.
T.H Liddell
Tho. Rd. Beaumont