Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to William Darwin – 18 May 1776

Mr Darwin         Hatton Street    London                                                Newcas  18th May  1776



Sir     Inclosed I send you Messrs. Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Messrs. Hallifax & Co at 20 d[ays] date for Three hundred and thirty five Pounds to make good Sir Walter Blacketts quarterly & other Payments from the 1st April to the 30th June next.   You will please to acknowledge the Receipt of this Bill  _  Sir Wr Blackett is at Wallington & has had a slight fit of the Gout      Mr Richmond has had a return of his disorder but is better.       I am etc     HR  





                                                                                       Newcastle Bank  18th May   1776

                 Twenty days after Date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus Blackett Esqr. 

                  Three hundred and thirty five Pounds    Value received

						For Bell Cookson Carr Widdrington & Self 

To Messrs. Hallifax Mills & Co                                 Jos.  Saint

                   London                      Pay the Contents to Wm 

       No.  4388                              Alvey Darwin  or Order    Value 

by CP                                           in Accot                      John E. Blackett