Letter – Edward Blackett to Matthew Featherstone – 16 Feb 1711

Sr

      I perceive the Offer you make me by your letter is to work up my Slaggs & give me a 1/5 when at this very time I lett them at £3 10s Pr Tunn & clear of all Charges so you may well Judge of my profit have all ready made severall hundred pounds of this the proposall I made to you was w[ha]t you would give me in money for the old slags & dead heaps I dont Question but to make some thousand pounds of them I dont think it possible they should be wrought up in many years, for often times in <summer> they want Water so that they cant wash the waste so let me know w[ha]t sum youl give me in hand for all the old slags & dead heaps, & then you may work them at your own time, I might[ily] rejoyce to hear both for your sake & my own that Fallowfeild is likely to prove as good as she has formerly been I wonder you do not make another hearth in the Mill for Ime sure the Axlletree will Carry it & your Charge will be Inconsiderable We shall now have a Free trade with france so that lead must needs rise in price Considerably let me know whether you have occasion for that lead I have in the Cellar otherwayes shall dispose of it to Mr Ald[erma]n Fenwick I am

      Your humble servt



For Mr Alderm[a]n Featherstone