Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 13 July 1784
We have recd. your Letters of the 8th. & 10th. Instant and thank you for the information you give us concerning the Estate at Lipwood which we wish might be purchased for Greenwich Hospital and if you will get the Coats to name a price we will take the matter into immediate consideration after we hear from you or them. We are
Your Humble Servts.
Walton & Turner
PS. We are much obliged by yr. calculation as to
Mr Thos Emerson Newcastle 15th July 1784
Newhouse Weardale
Sir
I received a letter from Mr Blackett on Tuesday last wherein he says the time fixed for your being here for Subsistance was the 26th Augt but as Sir Thos Blackett will be here the first Week in Augt he thinks you had better meet Sir Thos at Hexham & at the same time receive your Money there of which pray acquaint the other Stewards. You will be acquainted
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 16th. July 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 12th. Instant with Thomas Temperleys last Accounts to the 10th. inst inclusive and Six Assays agreeable to what you mention. What you propose respecting Tyne Bottom Ore is very proper, but it must reported in your Operation at least for this Year [underlined: ‘Tyne Bottom formerly called Hill Close’], as the Ore is raised out of Hill Close Vein.
If the Ore is not to be got carried on account
Mr Thos Wall Paper Buildings Newcastle 17th July 1784
Temple London
Sir Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs. Bell Carr & Co on Messrs. Powell Sumner & Co for £200 at 30 days dated this day to enable you make Sir J Trevelyan’s Quarterly Payments to 30th Sept. next. Mr Blackett is at present from home & therefore you will please to advise me on your Receipt of this Bill I am etc C Peart
Mr John Beatson
Cinderhill Yorkshire
Sir
Inclosed you will receive Messrs Bell Carr & Cos Bill on Messrs Castell Powell Sumner & Co at 40d dated this day for £71.0.0 for Leather Bends sent hither for Sir Thos Blackett’s Leadmines. Mr Blackett is at present from home & therefore desire you will advise me on your Receipt of the inclosed Bill. Both Packs came safe. I am etc C Peart
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Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 19th. July 1784
Dear Sir
We have recd. your Letter of the 14th. Instant and have this day drawn upon you for £123. 18. 7 being the amount of 499 ½ Ounces of Silver Bullion at 5s./9d. per Ounce after deducting 4s. for cleaning my Sons Watch £4.10s you pay on his Acct. £1. 1. for Waterage of the Pipes and £13. 9. 6 for 49 yards of Elm <Pipes> at 5s/6d per Yard. You’ll be so good as send the Recets. for the Pipes & Waterage by Post if Mr.
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 20th. July 1784
We have recd. your Letters of the 16th. & 19th. Inst and are very much obliged to you on account of your attention to the Lipwood Estate business. You may be assured we shall not take it upon any Terms without being well advised as to the Title and thank you for that hint. We would not by any means have you think it necessary to make a secret to the Coats’s of our wish to purchase and we wd. have you therefore tell them that you
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 25th July 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 22nd. Inst & approve of your conduct respecting Lipwood Estate and are of opinion the Coates’s are taking quite a wrong method by say[in]g any thing about what they are bid if it is in expectation of stimulating us. All we have to say upon the occasion is this. The Estate is well situated for Greenwich Hospital and therefore if they will ask a fair price such as we think we can recommend we shall mo
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 One Thousand and fifty four Ounces which I desire you will place to account with Sir Thos Blackett Bart as usual at the Markett Price, & advise me on your Receipt of it. I shall in a few Posts draw upon you for £300 I am etc J E Blackett
Sir Thos Blackett Bart Newcastle July 31st 1784
Bretton Yorkshire
Dear Sir
Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Bell Carr & Co on Castell & Co dated 30th inst at a Months date for Two Thousand Pounds the Receipt of which you will please Acknowledge. I am etc J E B
£2000 Newcastle Bank 30th July 1784
To the Revd. Mr. J. Cleaver Malton Yorkshire
To the Revd. Mr. Cleaver Alstone 31st July 1784
I rec’d yours on the 8th Inst & wrote you the day following. I expected an answer ere this. Mr. Gilbert came here on the 14th Inst. the next morning by chance I met with him and had long conversation relative to the Lead mines &c with which he was well pleased, and said he would be glad to see me at any opportunity; I told him there was a probality I might be concerned with him in t
J.E. Blackett Esqr N[ew]Castle Dukesfield 2d Aug[us]t 1784
Sir
The 9th being the time that the Mining Agents are to be in Town for Subsistance Mo[ney] shall be obliged then to Trouble you for 250£ the cause of my demand being larger then usual at this Season is owing to the Wheel Wright that made the Wheels etc for the Smelt & Corn M[ill] being behind w[i]th his Journeymen & having promised to pay them once he had finish[ed] the job, their resentment at his deception we
Messrs Child & Co Bankers Newcastle Augt 4th 1784
London
Gentln
Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Bell Carr & Co on Castell & Co at One Month dated 3rd inst 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 inst from Sir Thos Blackett Bart. You will please to Ack
Lyde Browne Esqr Newcastle Augt 7th 1784
Foster Lane London
Sir
I have this day drawn a Bill on you for Three Hundred Pounds at 30d dated the 3rd inst which I have no doubt you will duly Honour on Sir Thomas Blackett’s account & am etc
J E B
20 Augt. 1784 - Mr. Holmes wrote to this Day acquaint[in]g him that a Box containing 683 ½ oz. of Silver Bullion was sent from Newcastle to him the 14th Inst
J.E. Blackett Esqr N[ew]Castle Dukesfield Augt 24th 1784
Sir
The Miller at the Corn Mill here wants to sell Ale, I told him that I was sure you would not allow of it being so near the Smelt Mill I find by him that Mr Salkeld reather encourages him (who’s pub Tenant he is) and that he’s not willing to give it up without an order f[ro]m you, I therefor beg you’ll let Mr Peart acquaint my by l[ett]re of your disapprobation of it for I am sure that it will be a detrement to Si
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 27 Augt. 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 25th. Inst and desire the acct. for the Mill may end upon the 2nd. Day of Octr. & the Refining & Reducing may be brot. into the Pay Bill as far beyond that as you can make it so as to make the Pay as much as you properly can. The Lead Mill pay will be made the 16th. October, and we propose being at the Mill the 13th. in the Evening & staying til the Pay is over. We are
Your &c
Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 31 Augt. 1784
Dear Sir,
We duly recd. yours of the 18th. & 25 inst and have this Day drawn upon you for £196. 10. 2 being the Amount of 683 ½ Ounces of Silver Bullion at 5s/9d. We have made the Bill payable 40 Days after Date. We are sorry to find the Market is likely to be lower. The Receipts for the pipes &c we have recd. from Mr. Walker, and thank you for the transacting of the Business relative to these matters. There are two 2d. penny St
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 1st. Septemr. 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 30th. Ult. wth. the Operation for August and Thomas Temperleys three last Weeks Accounts. We are very much concerned on account of the sad accident to William Pattinsons Son but hope he may recover and heartily wish that he may do so. Mr. Joseph Hall we fear will not get the better of his illness he has however Youth on his side & with care he may yet do well. We are
Your Humble Servants
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 9th. Septemr. 1784
We have recd. yours of the 2nd. Instant and also the Box for which Mr. Walton is obliged to you & he desires you’ll put him in mind of settling his Acct. wth. you when we come to the Mill. The Coat to be kept ‘till then and worn by Mr. Peter Mulcaster as often as he pleases. We approve of what has been done as to the School & are glad to hear there is a chance of William Pattinsons Son recovering.
You are desired
Dr Sir
Your Cake of Silver is come safe to Sir Thos Blackett’s Office. It is weigh’d & Contains One Thousand Two Hundred & Forty one Ounces & an half which will be placed to the Credit of Dukesfield Refinery. I am etc C Peart
Mr Isaac Hunter Dukesfield Newcastle 10th Septr 1784
Lyde Browne Esqr Newcastle Septr 11th 1784
Foster Lane London
Sir
I have this day sent you by John & James Jackson the London Carriers a Piece of fine Silver containing One Thousand Two Hundred and forty one Ounces & an half which I desire you will place to Account with Sir Thomas Blackett Bart as usual at the Markett Price, advising me on your Receipt of it. I am etc
Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 13 Sept. 1784
We have recd. your Letter of the 11th. inst. I cannot possibly take time to look at the Silver and therefore return the whole. If any of the pieces are in your opinion clean, I certainly think it wd. not be proper to let them undergo a second Operation. You will therefore only clean the pieces that are dirtied and then return the whole to Newcastle.
On the 25th. of August Mr. Harvey sent me his Note for 60 single 1 ¼ Inch Deals
Mr Luke Noble Newcastle 17th Septr 1784
Bretton Yorkshire
Dr Sir
Inclosed you will receive Messrs Bell Carr Cookson & Cos Bill on Messrs Castell Powell Sumner & Co at 35 days dated 15th inst for Twenty seven Pounds Sixteen Shillings; being so much I received of Mr Hunter for the Waggon which Bill you will please to advise me on your Receipt of. I shall the beginning of next week send you the Cash Book
Lyde Browne Esqr Newcastle Septr 23rd 1784
Foster Lane London
Sir
I wrote to you on the 11th inst advising you of a Piece of fine Silver being sent to you to wch I refer you. I have this day drawn a Bill on you payable to the Order of Messrs Bell Carr & Co for £400 at 30 days date on Sir Thos Blackett’s Account wch I doubt not you will duly Honour. I am etc J E Blackett
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