Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 23 Nov 1778

Sir Thos Blackett Barot at Bretton                                                   Newcas 23d Novemr 1778

     near Wakefield Yorkshire



Dear Sir

	I wrote to you the 18th instant to which refer you.  Mr Bell was with me this Morning & paid into my Hands £500 on Account of Hexham Rents - he tells me your Tenants have been backward with their Rents but expected that he should be able to pay me a Thousand Pounds in a Fortnight.  As I had some Money of yours in my Hands I now remit you Messrs Bell Cookson & Co two Bills on Castell Whately & Powell dated 18th instant at 30 days date 

for One Thousand Pounds; The Receipt of which you will please to acknowledge by the first Post & likewise inform me what further Remittances you would have made to you.

	We have still very bad Weather but I hope it will not prevent my being with you on Saint Thomas’s day.                                             I am etc  JEB





                                        £500 -. -.          Newcastle Bank  18th Novemr 1778

                            Thirty Days after date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus

                        Blackett Esqr Five Hundred Pounds - Value received

                                                                   For Bell Cookson Carr Self & Saint

To Messrs Castell Whately & Powell                                                  Jno Widdrington

                London                                   Endorsed

No 9092                                                  John Blackett





                                        £500 -. -.          Newcastle Bank  18th Novemr 1778

                            Thirty Days after date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus

                        Blackett Esqr Five Hundred Pounds - Value received

                                                                   For Bell Cookson Carr Self & Saint

To Messrs Castell Whately & Powell                                                  Jno Widdrington

                London

 No 9093