Letter – Thomas Thurlow to John Egerton – 15 Jul 1777

My Lord,

      I am informed that your Lordship will make no Alteration in that Part of the Agreement which respects the Ninth of the Lead Oar; or rather, that the Ninth Part is not the Subject about which Sr. Tho: Blackett is now treating with your Lordship: but the renewal of a Life.

      If this be the Case, my settling with Sr. Thomas Blackett has no Connection with the Treaty he is carrying on with the Bp. of Durham; being of a quite different Nature. Will your Lordship be so obliging as to desire your Secretary to write to me, that I may know this Matter more certainly?

      I would not presume to give your Lordship this trouble, but I have been repeatedly pressed by Sr. T. Blackett’s Agent, to send a definitive Answer about the Tythes of the Lead Ore, which I have hitherto deferred, as imagining, that your Lordship had not settled the Price of the Ninth Part – your Lordship’s Due.

      I acknowledge myself to be greatly indebted to your Lordship’s Condescention and Goodness on my former Application, and I remain,

      With the truest Respect,

      My Lord, your Lordship’s

      much obliged & most obedient Servant

      Tho: Thurlow.

Rochester

July15: 1777.