Letters – Robert Lilburn to John Wilkinson – 11 Aug 1706

Document Type: Letters
Date: 11 Aug 1706
Correspondent: Robert Lilburn
Recipient: John Wilkinson
Archive Source: NRO 324/W3/19
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Cos: Wilkinson

	Yours of the 10th inst I have considered, and as  [I am} sure you intended no insecurity to them in this affair by your Demands but hitherto have chiefly regarded that safety in prompt payment: as my forbearance to make a demand till now, does sufficiently testifie my good intentions; yet being immediately accountable for the same that must excuse me if I oppose your short answer wth such reasons as are conceived undeniable in this case.

	Mr Brummell upon oath Deposeth that three & thirty tennes of coles, & upwards were by Sr Wm Blackett’s appointment Delivered to me or my order<wch> includes all those coles sold by me, to himselfe, & perhaps 500 other persons, as well as those sold to yu: now certainly you will not have <infer>, that he, & all these persons are not safe because they have paid me, for wt was sold to them; seeing those sold to <yu> are charged in the same manner, & by the same Person; as those wch were sold to <yu> besides them: were my order for those coles as well as they for the rest; now if Mr Brummell had forborne to charge me wth ym yet yu had, yu had my demand been of none effect; but since he has & thereby exonerated Sr Wms Exec[utor]s in acct for so many coles, wthout all doubt my Demands on yu for them are just; who were but my ordr for the selling of these coles. But supposeing yu as Sr Wms Execr yu have yu done Mr Brummell a great wrong & put him in a very evil case, for thereby yu will deinigh yr own witness, who saith they are Delivered as well as those that I have the money for and yu now come & infer theya re not delivered. If yu had thus intended herein to demur yu had done will if yu had left those cole out of the charge & that I had neither been chargeable therewth nor had cause of demand upon yu these reasons well considered doe significe that answer not satisfactory and is no more in effect yet if A were to pay <sme> 20 £ or my ordr and I ordr B to receive it & thereupon A vouches my Ordr for paymt to B by wch means B wthout all doubt is accountable to me for the aforesd £20 and in answer to my demand for the same tells me that he is advised that he can’t safely pay the sd £20 to me now I perswade my selfe that yu will not conclude the answer to be a sufficient barr of payment to

	Yr assured <…d> & ser[van]t   Rob: : Lilburne



Our services to all <wth yu> as if named
date unclear, poss 11th

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