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To Mr Maule Ravensworth Castle July 9th 1742
Dear Sir
We recd. yours of the 18th June last with yr Auditors Qu[estions] upon our last years Accts. wch we mislaid or they would have been Sooner answered. They are now herein Sent you answered wch will shew the Acct. is right, & you will find it so on Comparing the Rentalls Ending at 1 Mayday 1740 & 1741 with the Acct. All the Querys with regard to the Rentalls on the Second page are owing to Mr Woodhouse’s taking the Rentall Commencing at Mayday 1741 instead of that ending then. We are preparing our Acct. Ending the <30th> June 1742. I will soon have it ready so that we would be glad to hear of a Declaration that the last year may be passed before this Comes to your hands, in which we doubt not but both you & Mr Woodhouse will doe what is necessary, our Compliments pray to all friends & believe we are Sir
Your most Oblig’d Hble Servts.
Walton & Boag
Queries on the Examination of the Acct. of Nichos. Walton & Hugh Boag Gentlemen Receivers of the Derwentwater Estate from 30th June 1740 to30th June 1741 Viz:
Queries
On the Rentall End’d Mayd’y. 1740 Whittonstall by Rentall £142.19.. By Acct 142 .9..
Answer
By Rentall to Mayday 1740 is only £142.9. & from that time £142.19. agreeable to the Acct due occasioned by Thos. Westgarth. Rent of Gray Mare Coll’ry being advanced 20 Shillings p. ann.
Query
Hexhamshire by Rentall 114.2.6 By Acct 114. .
Answer
By Rentall to Maydy. 1740 is only £114 - & from that time £114.2.6 agreeable to the Acct. wch is occasioned by an Advance of 5 shillings p. ann in the Farm at Nether Holmes Geo. Blackburn Ten[an]t.
Query
Langly by Rentall 572.15.3 By Acct. 572.17.9
Answer
By Rentall to Maydy. 1740 is £572.17.9 & from that time £572.15.3 Agreeable to the Acct. (See both Rentalls)
Query
Meldon by Rentall 590.7.6 By Acct. 589.7.6
Answer
By Rentall to Maydy. 1740 is £589.7.6 & from that time £590.7.6 Agreeable to the Acct. (See both Rentalls)
Query
Alston Moor by Rentall 82.14.4 1/4 By Acct. 82.5.11
Answer
By Rentall to Maydy. 1740 is £82.5.11 & from that time £82.14.4¼ Agreeable to the Acct. (See both Rentalls)
Query
Castlerigg, Derwentwater and Thornthwaite Customary Rents
By Rentall 27.10.8 ¼ By Acct. 27.14.8 1/4
On the Rentall Ending Maydy. 1741
Answer
By Rentall End’g at Maydy. 1740 & also at Maydy. 1741 it appears the half year Rent is £27.14.8 1/4 & tho’ the Totall of the rents for half a year Ending May 1741 be only £27.10.8 1/4 yet you will observe 4 Shillings half yearly for a Dwelling house & Garth at <Skinnershill hill> enter’d by it self in the <2nd> Rentall wch makes up £27.14.8¼ Agreeable to the Acct.
Query
Dilston By Rentall 476.15.- By Acct. 470.15.-
Answer
By Rentall Ending at Maydy. 1740 the Rtl. is £474.15.- & by Rentall Ending at Maydy. 1741 the Rent is £470.15.- Agreeable to the Acct.
Query
Corbridge By Rentall 112.12.1 By Acct. 111.7.7
Answer
By Rentall Ending at Maydy. 1740 the Rtl. is £111.7.7. & by Rentall End’g at Mayday. 1741 the same Agreeable to the Acct.
Query
Wark & Elrington By Rentall 403.14.1 By Acct. 409.4.1
Answer
By Rentall Ending at Maydy. 1740 the Rtl. is £40<8>.19.1 & by Rentall Ending at Maydy. 1741 the Rent is £409.4.1 Agreeable to the Acct.
Query
Meldon By Rentall 1179.15. By Acct. 1180.15.
Answer
By Rentall End’g Maydy. 1740 the Rtl. is £1179.15. & by Rentall End’g at Mayday. 1741 the £1180.15. Agreeable to the Acct.
Query
Castlerigg, Derwentwater and Thornthwaite By Rentall 231.8.7 By Acct. 234.18.1
Answer
By Rentall Ending at Maydy. 1740 the Rtl. is £234.18.1 & by Rentall End’g at Maydy. 1741 the Same agreeable to the Acct.
Query
Do. Custom’y Rents By Rentall 55.1.4 1/2 By Acct. 55.9.4 1/2
Answer
This is answered on the other [previous] Side, the last Article..
Queries on Receivers Disbursements Viz.t:
No <3> Repairs
Query
Geo. Thompson given a Receipt for Jane Cook for £9.10 for <Lead.g> the 21st Octobr. 1741 Query his Authority
Answer
Geo. Thompson is Brother to Jane Cook & Transacts most of the busyness in her affairs
Query
Robt. Johnson 155 Fothers of Stones at 3s p Fother should be at 3d to make the Computation right 11th of March 1740
Answer
Is at 3d p Fother
Query
By what Authority £1.2 is allowed Robt. Martinson for <hard> Bargain 10th March 1741
Answer
By approbation of the Boards being Included in the Contingent Acct. of payments End’g the 31 March 1741
No <7>
Receipts are wanting from the Following for <mak’g> Wood
Abra: Bunting £13. 5.-
Edwd. Oxley <…>
Robt. Bunting 1. 4.-
Wm. Ramsey 2. 5.-
Thos. Pattinson .12
Jno. Armstrong . 8
Robt. Martinson . 1.6
These Sums are included in £66. .6d payed the 19th Aprill 1741 to <Sevr’l> for wch £66. . 6d there is a full Rect.
Exam’d by Charles Clark Auditor
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