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21-Oct-1714 Honest Will Your Son & his Fellow traveller was here last weeke, & staid wth me two or three days, I look upon him to be a good sober young Man, & if you keep him three or 4 Years longer at the university I am sure it would be very much for his Advantage, & you need not doubt but Interest may be made to get him a good Living Fail not to come to Newby as soon as possibly you can, to sett Strait May day rents, you know I have often told you, I wou’d never suffer one Halfe Years Rent to run in to another, but to have always my Halfe Years Rent pd at 30 days after due, I have writ to Harry Tulip likewise, to come to Newby upon the same Account, So if you’l prefix a day & the time to meet either at Hexham or any place upon the Road he will accompany you, so besure you Fail not as soon as this Letter comes to your Hand, let me have a Line from you & Acqunt me what day you designe to sett forward Your Assur’d Friend
Will Lowes’ son was Nicholas, studying at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and later the curate of Allendale, which was in Sir William Blackett’s gift.
