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To John Ibbetson Esquire Farnacres 14th October 1778
Sir
On the 25th March last Mr Walton acquainted the Board that the Banks of the River Tyne at Fourstones having suffered by Floods it was necessary they should be defended by
Wearing with Stone that a quantity of Quarry Stones had been thrown at the foot of the Slope next the Water to defend the injured parts, that directions had been given to prepare Materials for compleating the Work and that an Estimate should be sent the Board. On Mr Walton’s arrival in the Country from London he found Mr Thornton had proceeded with the Work so as nearly to have finished it which made an Estimate unnecessary and the whole was done for the Sum of £49:19- with which you will be pleased to acquaint the Board.
Mr Walton informed the Board the 15 April last that before he left the Country having given directions to try for Coal at Deanraw he was informed the Coal had been met with at the Depth of Nine Fathoms and four feet that the Seam or Stratum was Twenty Inches thick or thereabouts of good Coal and that he had great hopes it would prove a very Valuable acquisition to Langley Lead Mill. Almost immediately on Mr Waltons getting from London he went to Langley Lead Mill and finding the Stratum of Coal after cutting into it to be much altered and very Inferior in quality to what there was reason to expect he ordered Drifts to be extended in the Coal in two different directions to try whether an alteration for the better would not take place but to his great Mortification in proceeding, the Coal was found to be worse and worse and, therefore Orders were given to postpone the Work. The Expence of the Drifting, has not amounted to much as the Coal tho in general very bad was some of it used at Langley Mill so that the whole of the Tryal including the Sinking of the Pit cost no more than £21:9:1.
Messrs Walton and Smeaton in their Letter of the 25th October last stated fully to the Board of Directors their proceedings with regard to part of the Boundary of the Manor of Alston Moor adjoining the Regality of Hexham that they had been so fortunate as to get the same set out and ascertained to the satisfaction of all parties present by a Ditch which by way of distinction had been named the Long Ditch and that directions had been given for a Survey and Plan to be made thereof which should be sent to you as soon as finished. We have accordingly delivered the Plan to the Newcastle Carrier directed to you and have the Pleasure to acquaint the Board that since the settling of this Boundary we have found it of great use in describing several Boundaries of Veins to referr to the Long Ditch and have not the least doubt but the Proprietors of the Manor of Alston Moor and of the Regality of Hexham will experience the best effects from this Bounder Line having been fixed as by that Means they will be enabled without difficulty to determine the Boundaries of the Workings of all such Veins as shall intersect it.
The 5th of September 1777 the Board of Directors were acquainted with the Evidence and several particulars relative to the enjoyment on Lees Fell and from Circumstances set forth in a Letter of the above date Mr Walton mentioned his expectation that the Claims for the Hospitals Farms of Harsondale Sillywray Lough Middle Deanraw and East Deanraw would be objected to and expressed his doubts that they could not be established. As was apprehended objections were made to all those Claims and when Mr Walton was in London Mr Everest and he having gone thro’ the Evidence and carefully considered the same it appeared proper to give up the Claim for East Deanraw and to referr the others which was accordingly done and the Claims for Harsondale The Lough and Sillywray were disallowed and that for Middle Deanraw established.
The Refferees assessed Costs to be paid by the Hospital for the Two Farms of Harsondale and the Lough each party to pay their own Costs for Sillywray, and Costs to be paid the Hospital for Middle Deanraw.
The Expence of this Reference has been considerable as you will see by Mr Peters Bill sent herewith it amounts to to £151:1:9 after deducting the Costs allowed for Middle Deanraw but as other Proprietors of Estates similarly circumstanced made and supported Claims for those Estates and as there seemed sufficient Ground from the Evidence collected by Mr Peters to found the Claims upon the proceeding to a Reference was unavoidable and we may reckon ourselves fortunate to have established the Claim for Middle Deanraw every one of the rest of the objected Claims including those of Mr Bacon for West Deanraw Mr Barrow for Sillywray and Edward Scott for Harlow Field having been disallowed.
Mr Peters desires you will lay the inclosed Bill before the Board.
We inclose our Cash Accounts for the Months of August and September on the latter of which there remains a Balance of £351:18:11¾ in favour of Greenwich Hospital our Contingent Account for Three Months ending 31st August last amounting to £306:12:1½ and two Proposals for Lead Mines all which you will be pleased to lay before the Board & we are
Sir Yours etc
NW Junr, J.C.T.
PS You receive inclosed a Draft of a Land Lease as revised and since settled by Mr Fawcett
Contingent Payments made on Account of the Derwentwater Estate from 31st May 1778 to and with 31st August 1778 as follows
1778
Jun 1 Pd John Wren weeding &c Wood at Keswick £11 3 6
Pd Do for fixing Gates & Gate Posts at Do & for
Iron work for the same 3 13 10
Pd do for half a year’s postage due 12th ult - 7 6
Pd do for repairing Keswick Shambles - - 9
6 Pd John Nixon for Building a Limekiln for the use
Of Lowbyer & Mark Close pasture 5 19 -
13 Pd Mr John Surtees for making a fence in the Haugh
Farm at Newlands where some wood was cut by order
Of the surveyor of the High Road - 5 10
Pd Do for cutting and Weeding wood at Newlands
This season 27 1 6 1/2
Pd Do for Quicks plated at Newlands & Whittonstall 4 15 -
Pd Do for Searching for Spring Wells & trying for
Quarries at Newlands - 14 -
15 Pd Mr Thos Alder One Moiety of the charges of
Casting a Bounder Ditch in the Salt Marsh between
Outchester & Ross – 14 -
Pd Mr Thos Bell for Casting a Drain in the High Close
at Glolorum joining Bradford – 14 10 1/2
Pd Mr Thos Alder for Dressing Trees at Spindleston
& Outchester 3 10 6
22 Pd expenses on account of riding the boundary of
Fourstones Common 3 12 4
27 Pd Fran. Ridley for carriage of a box to John
Ibbetson Esq containing the final Acct Rental
and vouchers of Messrs Walton & Smeaton – 10 6
Jul 8 pd Mr Edwd Bell for 14500 quicks planted at
Hartburngrainge 7 14 -
pd do for 4700 do planted at Needlesshall 2 11 3
pd do for 3000 do planted at Meldon Park 1 5 6
pd do for quicks planted at Meldon outgrounds 1 14 -
pd do for making tryals for water at Hartburngrainge 2 18 6
pd do for making do for do at meldon Park 3 3 6
pd do for quarry tools for his district 6 12 1
pd do for repairing plantation hedge at Needlesshall - 2 6
pd do for cutting & dressing trees at Meldon - 2 11
pd do for 2 doors for stable & byer at Needlesshall - 18 -
pd do for repairing Hartburngrainge Chancel - 9 6
pd do one moiety of the expence of repairing
Midford do 2 4 5
10 pd Robt Wardhaugh for carriage of a box to John
Ibbetson Esq containing plans of the ground
described in Mr Glbert’s proposals for lead &c
mines in the manor of Alston Moor - 5 2
11 pd Mr Geo Sample for weeding &c Wood at
Highwood & Bagraw 20 19 2
pd Do for weeding & wood in Hexhamshire 12 - 9 1/2
pd do for carriage of & fixing 28 gates and
gateposts Coastley Highwood Bagraw & Langhope 14 13 7
pd do for winning leading & setting gate posts
in Hexhamshire 3 19 4
pd do for 37,300 quicks planted in Coastley,
Langhope, Baggraw, Westwood & Hexhamshire 17 10 6
pd do what he pd Thoams Askew for shewing the
boundary of Turfhouse Farm - 1 -
pd do for repairing the Whitley Mill Wears - 7 -
14 pd Mr Nich.s Thornton for repairing Haydon
bridge Wears 1 10 6
pd do for repairing the Mill Hills Do 3 7 10
pd do for expenses on acct of seizing a Horse
(which was supposed to belong to Chris. Nicholson
Tenant of Woodhall Mills) by way of securing the
Arrear due from him but on enquiry the Horse was
proved the property of Joseph Lee 2 2 3
15 pd Mr John Jobling for repairing Dilston Mill dam 1 10 6
pd do for carriage & planting trees at Dilston 2 2 -
pd Do for weeding & housing Bark at Do 10 18 10
pd do for expenses valuing & Selling oak wood
at Throckley – 12 -
pd do for stubbing cutting & expenses valuing &
selling ash wood at Do. 8 7 10
pd do for carriage & planting wood at Whittle 4 1 2
pd do for carriage & planting wood at Thornbrough 2 - -
pd do for making a Road for the use of the New
Building & South Farm at Dilston Park 3 12 1
pd do for work done at Whittle New Road not
included in contract – 12 -
pd do for repairing walls at Dilston - 15 8
pd do dragging stone posts out of the quarry at Do - 12 -
pd do for making gates for the Derwentwater Estate 4 12 -
pd do for quicks planted in his district 10 14 -
Jul 17 pd John Turnbull & John Bell for working up
Wood at Dilston for Nentforce Level 18 14 6
pd Mr Peter Mulcaster for carriage of Do 15 16 6
Aug 7 pd Jno Price for setting gate posts at Lowbyer - 1 6
pd Wm Thirlwall for attendance with a standard
weight to examine & correct the weights by which
the lessees of the lead mines in the Manor of
Alston Moor weighed the Duty Ore - 2 6
pd mr John Bell for Viewing & Valuing wood at
Dilston as also advising about converting the
same to proper use 1 15 -
11 pd Messrs Walton & Turner’s expenses in attending
the Arbitration shewing the Lands &c to be
exchanged with His Grace the Duke of Northumber
-land at Alnwick Broxfield Denwick & Warkworth 6 7 10
13 pd Mr Nich.s Thornton for hoeing, cutting &
dressing wood at sevl places in Langley Barony - 8 6
pd do for making Watergates & Flakes for small
farms in Langley Barony 1 - 8
pd do for hanging a gate at Fourstones - 1 6
pd do for winning leading stones for & building
2 rood of stone wall at the east end of
Harsondale new cottage – 12 6
pd do for quicks planted in his district 9 1 -
pd do for filling up a quarry in Harsondale - 8 8
pd do for hoeing 52 old oak roots at Harsondale 1 14 8
pd do for grass seeds sown at Lowbyer – 11 6
pd do for taking roof of an old house at Altonside - 1 8
pd do for repairing a byer at Fourstones - 7 -
22 pd Mr Jos. Hilton for making a road through the
fold and the Heugh at Lowbyer & fixing Stone
Stairs &c in the Heugh 16 16 1
pd do for Hay seeds sown at Lowbyer 1 10 -
pd do for valuing Wood at Land Ends Woodhall &
Altonside in 1776 – 14 -
306 12 1 1/2
Farnacres 14th Octr 1778
Errors Excepted
NW Jnr JCT
