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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Messrs Child – 30 Dec 1783
Messrs Child & Co Bankers Newcastle Decemr 30th 1783
London
Sir’s
Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Bell Cookson & Co of this date on Castell & Co at 30 days date for £100 wch I desire that you will Place to the Account of The Revd Doctor Blackett of Plymouth acquainting him with the same & acknowledging the Receipt to Sir’s yours etc J E Blackett
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Edward Blackett – 30 Dec 1783
The Revd Doctor Blackett Newcastle Decemr 30th 1783
Plymouth
Dear Sir
I have by this Post remitted a Bill to Messrs Child & Co for £100 for one Years Interest of £2000 on Sir Thomas Blackett’s Bond to you due the 1st instt for wch you will Please to send me your Receipt, on your having advice from Messrs Child & Co of the Receipt of the Bill. My Daughter joins me in best Compts to you wishing you man
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 31 Dec 1783
Messrs Plumb & Browne NCastle Decem 31st 1783
Forster Lane London
Gentn
Agreeable to my Letter of the 29th Ulto I send you by John & James Jackson the London Carriers a Piece of fine Silver Containing One Thousand & Twenty seven Ounces wch I desire you will place to Acct with Sir Thos Blackett Barot as usual at the Market Price Advising me on your Receipt of it. I am Gentln Yours etc John E Black
Letter – Thomas Blackett to Mark Skelton – 1 Jan 1784
Mr. Skelton
I rec’d your Letter & will not think any more of the Kexbro’ Farm, You may remember that I guessed very near the Price. I hope your pretty Girl will go home safe but I thought that she was come to stay & to learn to riot with the other Girls.
All well & Compts. to you.
Yours &c
T Blakett
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 9 Jan 1784
Mr Thos Wall Temple Newcastle Jany 9th 1784
London
Sir Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Bell Carr Cookson & Co on Castell Powell & Co of this date at one Months Date for two Hundred Pounds wch. Sum is to enable you make the Quarterly Payments on Acct of Sir John Trevelyan Bart. from 31st Decem[be]r last to 31st March next for wch. you will please to send me your Receipt as usual. I wish you many happy returns
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 9 Jan 1784
Sir Thos Blackett Barot Newcastle Janry 9th 1784
Bretton Yorkshire
Dr Sir
I am favoured with your Letter of the 2nd inst & am glad to find that the Disposition of the Rooms in Mr Wilson’s house meet with your Approbation; I observe what you say as to the Safe Closet & on Consulting again with Mr Anderson he is of Oppinion that the Proper place for it will be in the Part that I described in the Plan by taking o
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 9 Jan 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 9th January 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 5th. Inst and are very happy to hear of the three persons you mention having had so narrow escape from death, and that our Buildings afforded them the means of being preserved, and it likewise gives us much satisfaction to be informed of your being all safe and well after the Terrible Snow of Blowing Weather which was similar here but not so bad as you describe. Mr. Walton could not possibly have excuse
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 11 Jan 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 11th. January 1784
As you will want some Ash Wood I desire you or either of you James Watson & Mr. Thornton will go together & make an Examination where it can be most conveniently got so as to save Carriage and let the Trees wanted be taken down where they stand thickest & don’t take down more than wanted yet take enough as it will be better by being seasoned to be using it. I am
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Trevelyan – 13 Jan 1784
Sir John Trevelyan Bart . Newcastle Jany 13th 1784
D[ea]r Sir I wrote to you the 28th Ulto. to wch. I refer you. I have laid the Article between the late Sir Walter Blackett & Sir Edwd. Winnington (as Trustee for Sir Arthur Blount) before Mr. Fawcett & he is of Opinion that Sir Wr. Blount may Compel you either to Pay the £25000 on the 6th of Feby. next or to Pay him 5 P[er] Cent Inter[est] from that time, but Mr. Fa
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Messrs Child – 13 Jan 1784
Messrs Child & Co Bankers London
Gentln
Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Bell Carr & Co on Castell & Co at one Month dated 13th instt for One Hundred & Fifty Seven Pounds ten Shillings; being half a Years Composition Rent for the Tithe Ore of Weardale Leadmines due to My Lord Bishop of Lincoln the 14th Febry next from Sir Thos Blackett Bart. You will please to Acknowge the Receipt of this Bill advising His Lordship of the same, & when paid send me his Lord
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 13 Jan 1784
13th Jan[uar]y 1784
J E Blackett Esq[ui]re N[ew]Castle
Sir
I have just received f’m Blaydon a Pay bill for Dukesf[iel]d & Allanheads Lead Last y[ea]rs carriage by w[hi]ch it appears that it will take 437£ 11. 8 to make that Pay w[hi]ch we promised to make (provided the Lead was all in) before the 31st Dec[embe]r last. If it’s agreeable to you would make it in the first week of February (either the 3d or 5th) youll please to let Mr Peart acquaint me if the that time will s
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 20 Jan 1784
Mr Thos. Wall, Temple London
Sir Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs. Bell Carr & Co on Messrs. Castell & Co at one Month dated this day for Five Hundred Pounds to enable you to pay Sir Edwd. Winningtons half Years Interest on Mortgage of Wallington due 6th of next Month on Sir John Trevelyans Acct. _ You will please to acknowledge the Receipt of this Bill, & when Paid send me the usual Receipt I am etc
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 24 Jan 1784
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 24th. January 1784
Dear Sir,
We this day send you a Box containing 770 Ounces of fine Silver which hope you’ll receive safe; and we have this day drawn upon you for £43. 14. 3 payable 30 days after Date to the Order of Mr. Tristrum Everest which we will allow for and when we draw for the Silver. We are Dear Sir
Your most Hble. Servts.
Walton & Turner
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 26 Jan 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster, Farnacres 26 Janry. 1784
We have recd. your Letters of the 14th. 16th. & 20th. inst and thank you for the Delivery of Mr. Thornton’s Letter to which we have recd. an answer. We have recd. Thos. Temperley’s Accounts and also 4 Assays, and are very glad to see the Produce at the Reducing Furnace so good. The Silver weighed 770 Ounces.
We are obliged by your attention to the smelting of 100 Bings of Lough Vein Ore, and shall be glad to receive the P
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett – 31 Jan 1784
£21 Newcastle Bank 31st Janry 1784
Ten Days after Date Pay to the Order of Mr Ra Heron
Twenty Guineas Value received
For Bell Carr Cookson Widdrington Co
To Messrs Castell Powell Sumner & Co Thos Gibson
London
No 3634
NB The above Bill was
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 8 Feb 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 8 February 1784
On looking over the Assays we find the following Errors.
<..> 80ths
1/2 lb 1783 Dec 10 Dowke Burn 1 2 - 9 18 10 8 shd be 10 21 6
1/2 lb Browngill Sun Vein 1 20 -11 - 12 - shd be 12 5 - -
1/2 lb Refineable Lead 1 9 -10 7 - 6 shd be 10 18 1 2
1/4 lb 1784 Jan 22 Keswick Minerals 2 63 -54 12 16 8 shd be 59 10 16 3
We have recd.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 10 Feb 1784
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 10th February 1784
Dear Sir,
We are favoured with your Letter of the 5th Inst and have examined our Accounts and find you want £22 for Bone Ashes which Sum ought to have been deducted from the amount of the Silver drawn for the 8th of August last but you’ll recollect and see by our Letter of that date that our attention was then taken up concerning a difference between us about one Ounce of Bullion which certainly had occasioned our neglecting to acc
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett to John Trevelyan – 13 Feb 1784
£300 Newcastle Bank 13th Feby. 1784
Thirty Days after Date pay to the Order of John Erasmus
Blackett Esqr. Three Hundred Pounds Value received
For Bell Carr Cookson Widdrington & Co
To Messrs. Castell Powell Sumner & Co Jas. Wilkinson
London
No.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 13 Feb 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 13th Feby. 1784
We have recd. your Letters of the 5th. 9th. & 11th inst. together with Thomas Temperleys last Weeks Accounts.
We have corrected the Errors mentioned in yours of the 5th. and upon reexamining the weight of the Assay of the Lead produced from Keswick Minerals we find your calculation to be right.
We are sorry to see this severe weather continue so long and desire the Smelting may stop if you find the carrying it on bef
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 27 Feb 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 27 Feb. 1784
We have recd. your two Letters of the <21st> and Letter of the 23rd. inst. together with Thos. Temperley’s two last Weeks Coal Accounts.
We have no Objection to John Friend getting Corn for the Nent Force Level Workmen from N’Castle but as we told him when he was here in December that we wd. have nothing more to do with the furnishing the Corn ourselves, we think he ought to have mentioned the matter to us before he had
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 3 Mar 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 3rd. Mar: 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 1st. inst with the Operation for February.
What you have done as to the 34 pieces of Common Lead (in reality 51 of 1 Cwt.) is perfectly right, and with regard to the Slag Lead wch. has been refined you will report that in the same manner as you do the Refineable Ore Lead, taking Notice that the Silver is not yet taken off.
On examining the last Operation and comparing it with that of th
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Lyde Browne – 4 Mar 1784
Mr Lyde Browne Newcastle March 4th 1784
Foster Lane London
Sir
I am favoured with your letter of the 24 Ulto & am concern’d for the Death of your Worthy Partner Mr Plumb. Inclosed you have your Account wch on examination if you find right I will with your leave draw a Bill on you for the Balance. I shall send you the Silver as usual & have not the least doubt of meeting with the same Exactness & Punct
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett to John Trevelyan – 6 Mar 1784
£600 Newcastle Bank 6th March 1784
One Month after Date pay to the Order of John Erasmus
Blackett Esqr. Six Hundred Pounds Value received
For Bell Carr Cookson Widdrington & Co
To Messrs. Castell Powell Sumner & Co Thos. Gibson
London
No. 3815
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 11 Mar 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 11 March 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 7th. inst and corrected the errors in the Operation of February.
This day we have written to Mr. King desiring him to send a dozen Double of Bricks.
We are sorry for the Account you give of the Ore Galloways but must submit. We are
Your Humble Servants
Walton & Turner
PS. Refined Lead £17. 5 - per Fodder.
Silver 5 10 per Ounce.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 15 Mar 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 15th. March 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 13th. inst with the Assays involved.
We are glad to see that the Reducing continues as good as we observe our Loss in the extracting of the last 81 Fodders is something better than between a Twelfth and Thirteenth.
We desire to have an Operation made out on the last Saturday of this Month, and the Operation after finishing the Slag Hearth &c Work may be made up at such time as you ma
