Messrs Read Lucas & Reads Sheffield Newcastle 5thJune 1806
Gent
Mr Blackett forwarded for you on Mr Beamonts Account a p[iec]e Fine Silver the 29 April last containing 1607 Oz the receipt of which he has not been advised of. The usual terms of Credit having elapsed he will feel obliged by your remittance for the same advising the price you allow at the same time.
I am Sir TC
Sir R. C. Glyn & Co 14 June 1806
You will receive inclosed 4 Bills value £7467-9-0 which you’ll please to place to the credit of TR Beaumont Esq for whom I am Sir CB
1806
31 March Mr Morison on T Preston & Sons at 5 mths 1660
Ditto 6 mths 1660
Ditto 7 mths 1666– 0- 7
J Locke & Co 6 mths 2481– 8– 5
Messrs Rundell, Bridge & Co N[ew]Castle July 2nd 1806
Gent
I have this day forwarded for you a p[iec]e fine Silver containing Seventeen Hundred & Thirty Nine Oz which I desire you will place to theCredit of TRB[eaumont]’s Acc[oun]t with you at the Market price as usual advising me on your receipt of the same. I have paid for the carriage of this p[iec]e here. I am etc CB
No.2 Dufton 10th July 1806
I send you a Copy of my remarks made this Midsummr Bargains, at Col Beaumonts Lead Mines, whereby you will see the general state of the Mines, and likewise observations necessary to their future working and shall begin with Coalcleugh, at the East end where the Water level is driven to the forehead, and sump nearly sunk for the Pumps to win the great Limestone on the east side of the Cross Vein. – A considerable quantity of Ore hath been raised in the
Messrs Read Lucas & Co Sheffield Newcastle July 12th 1806
Gent
On the 11th Inst I forwarded Per Pickergill & Co Leeds Waggon on your Account a p[iec]e fine Silver containing Thirteen Hundred and Sixty Nine Ounces which you will place to the credit of Tho[ma]s R[ichar]d Beaumont Esq Account with you at the Market price, advising me on your receipt of the same. I have paid for the Carriage of this p[iec]e here
I am Sir CB
That part of Garrigill mines called Tynebottom continues poor and all care and frugality is attended to in the several trials Jos. Wanless & Co are rising to try the vein.
Nenthead 19th July 1806
Hon[oure]d Masters
After having taken a general Survey of the Gov[ernor] & Co’s of Lead Mines under my direction, I Let the sundry Bargains, on the 26th, 27th, & 28th past, of which I have annexed a List.
Rampgill & Scaleburnmoss Mines, which in some respects are blended together (the Work of both com[in]g out by the same Level, are doing well. W[illia]m Falkin & co in Rampgill are Driv[ing] the Horse Level Southw[ar]d for the dis
Messrs Goslings & Sharp London Newcastle 24 July 1806
Gent
You will receive inclosed a Bill of £375 on Acc[oun]t of the Rev[eren]d H Hardinge Rector of Stanhope. Please to advise the receipt in course of post.
I am Etc CB
Rev. H Hardinge Stanhope Newcastle 24 July 1806
Sir
I am favoured with your letter of 23 inst & have this day remitted Messrs Goslings & Co £375 for your 2 years Comp[ositio]n for Tythe Ore. If it should equally meet your convenience I should be glad to make the payment to you here to any person you may appoint to call for it; or to pay your cheque to the Durham Bank on the day Money becomes due. I am for TRB & Co CB
Messrs Reads & Lucas Sheffield Newcastle Aug 7 1806
Gent
I am favoured with your letter of the 5th Inst covering Nine Bills amount £405-7-6 which sum is placed to the credit of your Account with Col Beaumont fo[r] fine Silver sent you. I am a little surprised that you have not allowed a higher price than 5/11 per Oz for this p[iec]e Silver having sent a p[iec]e to Rundells & Co London on the 1 Ulto (nine days only before the p[iec]e sent you) for which they remitted @ 6 Nov 2
Edw[ar]d Bunn Esq Newcastle 6th Sept 1806
14 Great Surrey Street Blackfryers Bridge, London
Sir,
You will receive inclosed 3 Bills for £500 which you’ll be pleased to pass to the account of James Cockshutt & advise the receipt to me. <W.C.> will give the necessary directions as to the appropriation of the above Sum.
I am Sir etc CB
795 - 45- 8-7
6 - 150-11-3
7 - 304- 0-2
£500- 0-0
Wylam September 15 1806
Present Mr Blackett, Mr Cockshutt, Mr Mulcaster& Son
The Roasting of Lead Ore previous to the smelting appearing to produce so considerable a Profit it was thought advisable not only of ascertain this fact & also more particularly to determine the effect upon the Quality of the Lead so obtained. It was determined that a further and more particular tryal should be made at the different Works of Col Beaumont & for this purpose it was determined tha
Mr Tho[mas] Smith Rookhope Mill Wylam Sept 15 1806
It being determined by Mr Blackett and myself in order more correctly to determine the advantage of Roasting the Lead Ore previous to the smelting it; that Mr John Mulcaster, shall attend a tryal to be made at your Mill under his immediate inspection that he may make a faithful and correct report of the same in this tryal you will give him every assistance in your power & you will be informed by him the time when it will be convenie
Messrs Rundell Bridge & Co Newcastle Sept 20 1806
Ludgate Hill, London
Gent:
I have this day forwarded for you per the London Wagon a p[iec]e fine Silver containing Thirteen Hundred & Eighty Eight Ounces which I desire you will place to the account with T.R. Beaumont Esq at the Market price as usual, advising me of your receipt of the same. I have paid the carriage here & remain etc CB
Messrs Drummond Bankers London Newcastle Sept 20 1806
Gent
You will receive inclosed a Draft for £462-10 in payment for half a years composition for the Lot Ore of Weardale Leadmines due to the Lord B[isho]p of Durham the 26th Ulto from Tho[mas] R[ichar]d Beaumont Esq. Please to advise the receipt of the same to Sir etc CB
Messrs C. T. Thornhill & Co
Gent
I am favoured with your two letters of <24> Inst enclosing 3 D[ra]fts on Lon[do]n and £113-5-0 also Bankers notes & Cash £10-10-6 making together £123-15-6 which have placed to the Credit of your Acc[oun]t with T. R. B. for Lith[arge] sent you. For CB TC
Edw[ar]d Bunn Esq Newcastle 6 October 1806
14 Great Surrey St Blackfryers Bridge London
Sir
I remit you inclosed a Bill for £500 by directions from Col Beaumont which he desires you will appropriate in the same manner as the like sum which I remitted to you on the 6th Sept[ember] Namely in purchasing Stock under the same trusts after which you will please to send down to me a power of attorney to receive the Dividends in like manner as the former.
I am Sir etc CB
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October 14th 1806
Coalcleugh Lead Mine upon the whole is not in so prosperous a state as at Midsummer, some of the old Workings are obliged to be advanced in price, and such a quantity of Water loosed by working in the back forehead, about the Cross Vein, is like to be too much for the Engine, in order to remedy that, ordered the Workmen to Dam the Water back, which comes from the Companys Works on the West end, which expect will give us the relief wanted; if not must seek r
Nenthead 25. Oct[ober] 1806
Hon[oure]d Masters
Having examined the Company’s mines under my care, on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd past I Let the sundry Bargains, of which is annexed a List - Many parts of the Mines are poor, & but for the Lead’s bearing a high price, they could not be Wrought, yet at the same time several of the other parts are doing well –
I have Let every Bargain as low as the nature & Circumstances thereof would admit, & hope upon the whole th
Joseph Wanless & Co are driving the Horse level at Tynebottom.
Mr Thomas Emerson Weardale Newcastle 30th Oct 1806
D[ea]r Sir
Col Beaumont & Mr Blackett have desired me to intiomate to you that it is Col Beaumont’s intention to support Sir R Milbank & Sir Tho[mas] Liddell in the approaching Election for the County of Durham. He wishes you to make this public in Weardale and hopes that his friends there will contribute in supporting the same Cause. I am etc TC
James Cockshutt Esq, Huthwaite Nov 14 1806
Along with this I have sent you an Acct of the operation of Roasting the Lead Ore previous to its being smelted according to your direction as exact as it could possibly be made, as I attended to the weighings necessary at the different works myself which were performed with the utmost scrupulous exactness. –
Yet you will observe that the results are very different at each place – I have attempted to account for the differen
George Baker Esq Elmore Newcastle 15 Nov 1806
Sir,
I have paid on your private Acc[oun]t at you Banking House, Twentyfive Guineas which have been so good as to advance for a <Co….> bought of Mr Bell for Col Beaumont. I am Sir etc CB
Messrs Reads & Lucas Sheffield NewC[astle] Nov 15 1806
Gent
I have now by me for disposal a p[iec]e of fine Silver weight about 1570 Ounces. Should you be in want of that article I will thank you to say by return the utmost price you can afford to give per ounce. I am Sir CB
Mr Geo[rge] Crawhall Weardale N[ew]Castle Nov 20 1806
You will on receipt of this, inform Mr Emerson that the price to be charged to the Workmen for Gunpowder for the last year is £6-1-6 that is after the deduction of the 10 percent and exclusive of the Charge of Carriage to the mines which will be paid here as last year. As the Pays are to be made at Xmas or soon after as may be Mr B[eaumon]t hopes the accounts will be prepared & sent in soon. T.C.