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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
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 19 Mar 1784
Mr. Jno. Holmes Farnacres 19 March 1784
Sir
By tomorrows Waggon you will receive a Box containing 922 Ounces of fine Silver.
I desire you’ll be so good as to pay Richard Probert for 100 Casks of Bone Ash which he acquaints Mr. Turner & me he sent on Board the Peggy Captain Middlemas the 12 Instant at Red Lion Wharf where I suppose the Vessel is still lying on or waiting for a Wind. I am Dr. Sir
Yours &tc
NW Junr.
PS. I send a proper Rec
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 19 Mar 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 19 March 1784
We have recd. your 3 Letters, two of the 15th. & one of the 17th. Inst together wth. Thos. Temperley’s three last weekly Colliery Acct.
As it is now, we think, quite clear that you will compleat last years Ore &c so as to be ready for the Pay at the time we mentioned in our last, we shall probably fix the Pay accordingly, and desire that an Operation Paper may be made out for this Month ending the 27th. Inst, and another
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Lyde Browne – 20 Mar 1784
Lyde Browne Esqr Newcastle March 20th 1784
Foster Lane London
Sir
I received your favour of the 9th inst inclosing your Acct with Sir Thos Blackett Bart. Balance in his favour £529-2-0 for which Sum I have drawn a Bill on you dated 20th inst Payable to the Order of Messrs Bell Carr & Co at 20 Days date, wch I doubt not will be duly Honoured. In a few days I shall send you a Piece of Fine Silver of wch I shall A
Bill – John Erasmus Blackett – 22 Mar 1784
£1000 Newcastle Bank 22nd March 1784
One Month after Date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus
Blackett Esqr One Thousand pounds Value received
For Bell Carr Cookson Widdrington Co
To Messrs Castell Powell Sumner & Co Jas Wilkinson
London P
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Isaac Hunter – 26 Mar 1784
Mr Isaac Hunter Newcastle 26 March 1784
Dukesfield
Sir
Your Cake of Silver is Received safe; it is weighed & Contains Nine Hundred & twenty Nine Ounces. There is a mistake in Mr Salkeld’s Decemr Quarter Rookhope Mill Accot Viz Wolfcleugh 377 3/8 Bings of Ore at 30d p Bing £18.17s.4 1/2 d. Please to get this Mistake rectified & send us your Accounts as soon as possible. I am etc
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Lyde Browne – 27 Mar 1784
Lyde Browne Esqr
Foster Lane London
Sir
I have this day sent you by John & James Jackson the London Carriers a Piece of fine Silver containing Nine Hundred and twenty Nine Ounces, which I desire you will place to Accot with Sir Thomas Blackett Bart as usual at the Markett Price advising me on your Receipt of it. I am etc John E Blackett
Newcastle 27th March 1784
sold
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 27 Mar 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 27 March 1784
As Allendale Town Fair day is upon the 10th May we shall to accommodate the people make the Lead Mill Pay on Tuesday the 11th of May and on Wednesday pay the Lead Carriers being the 12th of May, but if we are wrong as to the Allendale Town Fair being on the 10th of May the Pays may be upon the 10th & 11th of May as before fixed.
It is requested that all the Lead may be got to Newcastle by Monday the 19th of April if that can b
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Trevelyan – 28 Mar 1784
Sir J Trevelyan Bart. Newcastle March 28th 1784
Nettlecombe Somersetshire
Dear Sir I am favoured with your letters of the 9th & 12th ins[tant]t and as they were answers to my letter I postpon’d answering them for a few days. Inclosed you have a Bill drawn by Bell Carr & Co on Castell & Co dated 22nd inst. at One Months date for £300 the receipt of wch. you will please to acknowledge. Mr. Winship called on
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 28 Mar 1784
Sir Thos Blackett Bart Newcastle March 28th 1784
Bretton Yorkshire
Dear Sir
I am favoured with your letter of the 21st inst and observe that you wou’d have £10,000 Remitted you this Year, which shall be done; but I hope that it may suit your Convenience to have the Principal part of that Sum the latter end of the Year. Inclosed you have a Bill as undermentioned for £1000 you shall have another £1000 the end of
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Cuthbert Peart – 29 Mar 1784
Dukesf[iel]d 29th March 84
Mr Peart N[ew]Castle
Yours of the 26th I have just rec[eive]d and the Mistake you speak of in the Rookhope Dec[embe]r Quarter Acco[un]ts is in wrong Cop[y]ing for the price p[er] Bing of the Wolfcleugh Ore is 12d therefor[e] the Sum & quantity of Ore are both right – you’ll please to correct the price in the Acco[un]ts you have – I have here with sent the Pay-Bill, Rental & General Acco[un]ts and also the Mill Month Acco[un]ts all of w[hi]ch
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 2 Apr 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 2nd. April 1784
I have recd. your Letter of the 29th Ulto. and am obliged by the trouble you have taken but sorry you are are again reduced to trudge on foot. As Harsondale will be out of Lease the 12th of May 1785 do you not think part of that Farm might be kept for you &c and the Housing then allotted to it & the remainder be laid to Sillywray. I wish you to consider this & let us have your sentiments when you see us at the Mill.
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 4 Apr 1784
Mr Thos Wall Paper Buildings Newcastle April 4th 1784
Temple London
Sir Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs. Bell Carr & Co on Castell & Co dated 2nd ins[tan]t at One Months Date for Two Hundred Pounds to make the Quarterly Payments on Sir John Trevelyan’s Acct . from 31st March last to 30th June next for which Sum you will please to send me your Receipt as usual. I am etc John E. Blackett
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 9 Apr 1784
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 9th. April 1784
We recd. yours of the 4th. inst and have written to Mr. Thornton to get the Plans of Harsondale, Sillywray & Plankey Pasture Farms, and have ordered him to deliver them to you; and you are desired to keep them ’til we come to the Mill.
We hope all the Lead will be got in by the 19th. but rather doubt Thomas Ions will fall short. We have written to Mr. Mentam about the Test Bottoms.
We have recd. Thos. Temperley’s
