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Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Westgarth Forster – 24 Nov 1778
Mr Westgarth Forster at Allanheads Newcas 24th Novr 1778
Sir
As Mr Blackett purposes going into Yorkshire next Month it would be more Convenient to him for you and the rest of the Stewards to be in Town on Monday the 14th of Decemr & receive your Money on Tuesday the 15th of which you will please to acquaint the rest of the Agents. I am etc CP
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 26 Nov 1778
To Ibbetson Esqr Farnacres 26th Novemr 1778
Sir
You receive herewith our Cash Account for the Month of October upon which there is a Balance of £3003:6:7 in favor of Greenwich Hospital and you'll be pleased to acquaint the Board that we have remitted the Treasurers Deputy £3500 in discharge of the said Balance and in part of our Receivings since October We are Sir
Your most Obedt Servts
N W Junr. J.C.T.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 27 Nov 1778
To Mr. Peter Mulcaster. Farnacres 27th. Novemr. 1778.
Mr Mulcaster
The Errors following I have rectified in the several Operations Vizt.
30 May Greengill West End Bouse 11.6 altrd to 11.4
Cutting 2.2 altrd to 2.4
26 Sept Cornriggs Bouse 3.2 10/30 altrd to 3.1 10/30
Cornriggs Stock 15.1 15/30 altrd to 14.7 15/30
Novr.14 Guddmgll Bn X Vn.No2 Bouse 131.6 altrd to 133.2
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 27 Nov 1778
To Mr. Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 27 Nov. 1778.
Mr. Mulcaster
I have reced. your Letter of the 26th. Inst. wth. the Operation & assays inclosed.
You need not trouble making out any new Operations on accot. of the Errors you mention as we can rectify the whole here & it will certainly be proper to include the Ore you mention from Guddamgill Burn X Vein S. End No.2 or any other which may arrive after it, the Operation to the 14th November Inst.
I shall hope
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 27 Nov 1778
To Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 27th Novemr. 1778.
Dear Sir
We have reced. your Letter of the 24th and this Day draw upon you for £146.1.2 being the Amount of 515 ½ Ounces of fine Silver at 5s/8d p[er] Ounce. The Bill is pay.ble Thirty Days after date. We are
Dr Sr. Your &c
W & T.
PS. We are sorry to find Trade so bad.
£146.1..2 Farnacres 27 Novemr. 1778
Thirty days after date Pay to the order of Messrs. Bell Cookson Carr Widdringt
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Jonathan Hilton – 27 Nov 1778
To Mr. Jona: Hilton Farnacres 27th Novemr. 1778
Mr: Hilton
As it will be attended with the greatest Inconvenience to us if Joe does not come here on Sunday we must beg of you to take care and see that he sets forward on Sunday Morning so as to be here in good time the same Day. Pray has any thing been done at Clargill Cleugh Colliery since we were at Hexham & settled the laying out of Ten Pounds?
We are Your &c
W. & T.
PS. We inclose you
Bond – Robert Stagg – 1 Dec 1778
Know all Men by these Presents that We Robert Stagg of Garrigillgate Joshua Stagg the Elder and Joshua Stagg the younger of Howgillsike All in the Parrish of Garrigill in the County of Cumberland Gentlemen are held and firmly bound to the Governor and Company for Smelting down Lead with Pit Coal and Sea Coal in the Sum of Three Hundred Pounds of good and Lawfull Money of Great Britain to be paid to the said Governor and Company or their certain Attorney Successors or Assigns For the true P
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett – 4 Dec 1778
£90 -. -. Newcastle Bank 4th Decemr 1778
Fourteen Days after date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus
Blackett Esqr Ninety Pounds - Value received
For Bell Cookson Carr Self & Saint
To Messrs Castell Whately & Powell Jno Widdrington
London Pay the Contents to Robt
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 5 Dec 1778
To Mr John Holmes
Dear Sir
This only serves to acquaint you that on the 28th Ulto a Box was delivered to the London Carrier directed to you containing 443 Ounces of fine Silver which I doubt will come to a bad Markett as I observe Dollars and Standard Barrs are 5s/2d p[er] Ounce in the last Loyds List. I an
Dr Sir Yours &c.
NW Junr.
Farnacres 5 Decemr. 1778
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Edward Blackett – 6 Dec 1778
The Revd Doctor Blackett Newcas 6th Decr 1778
Stoke Plymouth
Dear Sir
I have this day sent Messrs Child & Co a Bill for Ninety Pounds due the 18th instant which will be one Years Interest on Sir Thomas Blacketts Bond to you for £2000 due the 2d instant. As I was uncertain of your being in Town I thought it advisable to send the Bill to your Banker to whom I have inclosed a Receipt for you to sign when y
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Bell – 6 Dec 1778
Mr John Bell Hexham Newcas 6th Decr 1778
Sir
I received yours of the 4th and observe that you have received about Six hundred Pounds and can be here with it any day after Thursday next. I shall be at Home on Friday & Saturday next so you may come which ever day is convenient to you. I fear Sir Thos Blackett will be greatly disappointed at not receiving a larger Sum. I have already remitted him a £1000 & he
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 6 Dec 1778
Sir Thos Blackett Barot Newcas 6th Decr 1778
Bretton Yorkshire
Dear Sir
I am favoured with your Letter of the 28th Ulto acknowledging the Receipt of the two Bills for £1000. Mr Bell writes that he will bring me £600 the End of this Week by which I imagine your Tenants have fallen greatly Short in their Payments. I have wrote again to him acquainting him that you do expect they will pay up for I must have £1
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Trevelyan – 8 Dec 1778
Sir Jno. Trevelyan Baro[ne]t Nettlecombe Newcas. 8th Decemr. 1778
Near Taunton Somersetshire
Dear Sir I received your Favour of the 11th Ult[im]o & am very glad to hear that yourself & Family are well. My Friend Mosley & I went to Wallington the 29th _ I received the Rents that day and the next morning & returned Home in the Evening The Tenants paid up much better than I expected considering the Price of Corn the l
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Joseph Gildart – 11 Dec 1778
Mr Joseph Gildart Congleton Newcas. 11th Decemr. 1778
Cheshire
Sir Mr Blackett desires me to acquaint you that he has received your Letter of the 6th Novem[be]r last respecting the Int[e]rest due to Blackett Midford upon the £200 left him by the late Sir W[alte]r Blackett The Int[e]rest upon it is to Commence from the 14th Febr[uar]y last (agreeable to a Letter wrote you by Mr. Blackett on the 26th Novem[be]r 1777) so that
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 11 Dec 1778
To Jno Ibbetson Esqr Farnacres 11 Decem 1778
Sir
Mr Joseph Hilton finding an utter impossibility of attending the Office of Moor master has acquainted us with the contents of a Letter which he has wrote to you desiring his immediate Resignation may be accepted and he has since left the Country, being recommended as Steward to a victualling Ship in his Majestys Service now setting out for America; the Hospital will therefore be in want of Agents
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 13 Dec 1778
Mr Thomas Wall Paper Buildings Newcas 13th Decr. 1778
Temple London
Sir Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs. Bell Cookson and Co on Messrs. Castell Whately & Powell dated 4th instant at 30 days for Two Hundred Pounds to make the Quarterly Payments on Sir John Trevelyans Account from 31 Decem[be] to 31st March next for which you will please to send me your Receipt as usual. I am etc JEB.
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 13 Dec 1778
Sir Thos Blackett Barot Bretton Newcas 13th Decr 1778
Yorkshire
Dear Sir
Mr Bell was with me Yesterday, he could only get £650 which Sum he paid me on Account of Hexham Rents and I shall bring a Bill or Bills with me to that Amount. Mr Bell expects he shall be able to pay me about £600 more the Middle of January which shall be remitted to you if you think proper.
I hope to be with you the 19th instant & a
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 13 Dec 1778
Messrs Plumb & Browns Forster Lane Newcas 13th Decemr 1778
London
Gentn
Inclosed I send you your Account with Sir Thos Blackett The Balance in his Favour £342. 3s. 9d for which I have drawn a Bill on you dated 12th instant at 30 days date payable to the order of Messrs Bell Cookson & Co which you will please to accept & place to Account. I shall send you a ps of fine Silver the beginning of next Month. In your next
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Francis Scott – 13 Dec 1778
Francis Scott Esq Cheapside Newcas 13th Decemr 1778
No 27 London
Sir
I am favoured with your Letter of the 9th instant & observe that the India Co have given £13.5s.0d p Ton for Lead this Year and that at present it is sold in London at £13 p Ton. You may have here any Quantity of Sir Thomas Blacketts Lead you please at the following Prices - £12.17s.6d p Fother for the sort usually sent to India & £13.2s.6d p
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Smith – 13 Dec 1778
Mr Thos. Smith Rookhope Dukesfield 13th. Decr. 1778
Sir
When I come to reflect upon the Accot. you gave me yesterday in regard to the New Bellows, cannot help thinking it a matter of more consequence then the discharge of a Smelter as (by your Letter) that seems to be your only desire, I cannot help saying that it was a falt in you to leave the Mill while they were Smelting & I hope it will be a caution to you for the future never to leave the Mill while [struck out: ‘Smel
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Robert Child – 14 Dec 1778
Robt Child Esqr & Co Bankers London Newcas 14th Decr 1778
Gentn
I wrote to you on the 6th instant (under Cover to Robert Child Esqr) and inclosed you a Bill drawn by Bell Cookson and Co on Castell Whately & Powell dated 4th instant at 14 Days date for Ninety Pounds and desired it might be placed to the Account of The Revd Doctor Blackett. As you have not advised me of the Receipt of such Bill I am apprehensive that it may have miscarried
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 15 Dec 1778
To Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 15 Decemr. 1778
Dear Sir
We have this day drawn upon you for £123..13..5 being the Amount of Four Hundred and Forty Three Ounces of fine Silver at 5s/7d p[er] Ounce – a bad Market indeed
Walton & Turner
[The following section before the bill has been struck out:]
I am obliged to you for the Notice you take of my Son and am in haste to save the Post.
Dear Sir Your &c.
NW Junr.
PS. Be so good as send the
Letters – Thomas Blackett to John Wentworth – 26 Dec 1778
Bretton, Decr. 26th 1778
Dear Sir,
I can only return you my cordial thanks for the trouble you have taken in sending me news, dispatches and American Papers for it is out of my power & Yorkshire to furnish anything like them. Fate and time will certainly produce some good, and some bad, but our Ministers & Co: are bewitched to promote only the latter.
It may be uncommon now a days to mention a wife to a Husband, but excuse me for once; when I desire you to make
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 26 Dec 1778
To Mr. Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 26th Decemr. 1778
Mr Mulcaster
We have yours of the 19th inst. and the Silver is arrived at Newcastle. It gives us pleasure to see your produce so good in the reducing and we hope there will be no difficulty in settling the matter between Carr and Elliot but think Carr shd. pay a Guinea. It seems proper to continue John Craig, & to be sure Bill Brown never can be admitted to work for us again. You are desired to make a Tryal with Dunwoo
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 26 Dec 1778
To John Ibbetson Esqr Farnacres 26th Decemr 1778
Sir
It is with great concern when we have occasion to trouble the Board on account of our having lately had a very extraordinary Demand made upon Greenwich Hospital from Alston Moor by one William Thirlwall whose Debt contracted by Mr Joseph Hilton according to Mr Hiltons own Account amounts to £103- - & there is a debt similarly contracted & due
to John Bell of Alston Amounting to £
