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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Bell – 10 Nov 1793
Golden Lion 10 Novemr 1793
Dear Sir
I got here about three Quarters of an Hour ago and am come on purpose to examine into the Claims wch have been made in consequence of obtaining the Act for Dividing Allotting and Inclosing Hexhamshire and Allendale Common along with any others who might think proper to join in that examination. This matter was hinted by me to Mr Ruddock soon after the second mee
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Messrs Gosling – 13 Nov 1793
Messrs Gosling Newcastle 13th Nov 1793
Bankers London
Gentlemn Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Messrs Surtees Burdon & Co on Messrs Glyn Mills and Mitton at 30 days dated this day for £225, being one Quarters Composition for the Tythe Ore of Weardale Lead Mines due 11th Octor last to The Revd Heny Hardinge from Thos Richd Beaumont Esqr
Please to Advise me on your Receipt of th
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Mark Skelton – 19 Nov 1793
M Skelton Esqr Newcastle 19th Novr 1793
Birthwaite Hall near Wakefield Yorkshire
Dear Sir I have your favour of the 17th inst and observe the Contents _ I have not yet rec[eiv]ed from the Lead Stewards the Rental of the several Estates under their Management that you were desirous of having; nor have I got their Calculation of the Amount of the next pays for the several Lead Mines and Mills, it must be
Letter – John Bell to William Bates – 1 Dec 1793
To Mr William Bates Mr John Fryer and Mr Thomas Bates Commissioners named and appointed in and by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 32nd Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George th 3rd intitled ‘An Act for Dividing and inclosing certain Parts of the Commons Moors or Tracts of Waste Land called Hexhamshire and Allendale Common and also certain Townfields within the Regality or Manor of Hexham in the County of Northumberland and for Stinting the Depasturing of the other Par
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Augustus Browne – 7 Dec 1793
Auguss Browne Esqr Newcastle 7th Decemr 1793
Foster Lane London
Sir I have this day drawn a Bill on you payable to the Order of Messrs Surtees Burden & Co at 30 days dated this day for £897-6-9 being the Balance of your Account with Thos R Beaumont Esqr & which I doubt not you will duly honor _ In the course of this Month I shall send you a piece fine Silver & am etc JEB
Letter – John Hardy to Mark Skelton – 9 Dec 1793
Bradford Dec 9 1793
Dr. Sir/
I have just now seen Mr. Sharp and he has promised me to go upon the Valuation of Wibsey as soon as he can but his present Engagements will take him a fortnight, in the mean time as he understands his Value is to be compared with Mr Clark’s he wishes he may be favoured with a field Book otherwise he must be obliged to make a kind of <....ing> Notice which will not do to compare with Mr Clarks; if you will favour me with the Book I will take care to
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 12 Dec 1793
Thos Richd Beaumont Esqr Newcastle 12th Decr 1793
Bretton Hall near Wakefield Yorkshire
Dear Sir I am favoured with your Letter of the 9th inst and shall agreeable to your directions subscribe for you £200 towards the intended Road from Burtreeford to Fadstone West of Alstone which Sum with your former Subscription of £100 to the Road from hence to Burtreeford will compleat your original Subscription towards that Road
Letter – John Bell to John Erasmus Blackett – 13 Dec 1793
Sir Hexham Abbey 13th Decemr 1793
I got home on Wednesday and in my way through Newcastle had a Conference with Mr Williamson and Mr Heron respecting Westburnhope and upon considering that the antient Inclosures as so called contain only about 97 Acres and cost £140 in the last Century - that the Estate in the purchase Deeds is described to be a Messuage Tenement or Farmhold and Sheep-Walk and also taking into
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Lancaster Bax & Elill – 16 Dec 1793
Messrs Lancaster Bax & Ellill Newcastle 16th Decemr 1793
Merch[ant]s London
Gentn I am favoured with your letter of the 13th Inst & observe that the Assignees of Walter Hall & Co have drawn a Bill on you for £277-2 the Amount of the 50 Casks Litharge purchased by them for your house with their Charges thereon. As the Debt has been proved & Admitted by the Commiss[ioner]s it must be submitted to. notwiths
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Bell – 16 Dec 1793
Farnacres 16 Decemr 1793
Dear Sir
I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that I am fully empowered to act for the Commissioners and Govrs of Greenwich Hospital respecting the Claims on the Hexhamshire and Allendale Common. I shall be happy to hear you are under similar circumstances. I am also authorised to Subscribe £300 towards the Road from Burtry Ford to Alston and from thence to Burnstones
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 17 Dec 1793
Thos R Beaumont Esqr Newcastle 17th Decem 93
Bretton near Wakefield Yorkshire
Dr Sir I had the favour of your letter & before this time you will have Rec[eiv]ed a letter from Mr Heron with the best information that he can give you respecting the Affairs of the Halls. Mr Straker went to Hexham yesterday to meet your Lead Agents with Subsistence for the Workmen which with some Payments for Wood Amounted to £2910, The
Letter – James Lee to John Erasmus Blackett – 17 Dec 1793
London 17th Dec. 1793
Dear Sir
I take the liberty of addressing myself to you as one of the Trustees under the Will of Sir Thomas Blackett upon a subject most interesting to myself and Miss Wentworth As you may most probably have heard of our mutual attachment, I flatter myself you will be neither surprized nor displeased by our application for your consent to our union which by the Will you know is necessary. That my pretensions in point of fortune are not adequate, I must admit
Letter – Joshua Straker to Lancaster Bax & Elill – 18 Dec 1793
Messrs Lancaster Bax & Ellill Newcastle 18 Decemr 1793
Merch[ant]s London
Gentn Mr Blackett wrote to you on the 16th Inst in Answer to yours of the 13th Inst & is this day favoured with another letter from you with a Copy of one from Mr Frederick Hall _ Mr B being indisposed desires me to inform you that he has only to refer you to his last letter & begs that you will do nothing in this business until you hear furthe
Letter – John Skelton to John Bell – 18 Dec 1793
Bretton Decr 18 1793
Sir
By the Coach you’l rece the two Deeds of <R..> of the Westburnhope Tit[le] - Mr Beaumont is gone from Home
I am Sir Yr very Ob Sert
Jno Skelton
No 2 Decr 2d 1687 - <Release> Sr John Fenwicke or the one part to Edwd Burdett of Grays Inn in the County of Midx on the other part of All that Messuage Farne Tenement or <Sheepewalk> called Westburnhope and all Tythes &c
Letter – Nicholas Ruddock to John Bell – 20 Dec 1793
Mr Ruddock returns Compliments to Mr Bell with Thanks for his pleasing Information & kind Congratulations for which Mr R is sure All the proprietors will think themselves obliged to Mr Bell.
They will feel themselves now as a House not divided agin its self. Mr R submits the inclosed to Mr Bells Correction - is much divided in his Opinion whether it shod state the Withdrawing of the Claim or the Objection first - but thinks it not very material - The Withdrawing the Claim first is more
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 22 Dec 1793
Thos Richd Beaumont Esqr Newcastle 22d Decr 1793
Bretton near Wakefield Yorkshire
Dr Sir Inclosed I send you Copies of Letters from Messrs Lancaster & Co & my Ans[wer]s thereto as well as Mr Heron’s Lre [Letter] to you on the Subject I could wish to advise you for the best in this unfortunate business but I am really at a loss what to say as to the matter of Law; Equity certainly is in your favor. What Mr Willia
Letter – John Bell to Nicholas Walton – 22 Dec 1793
Hexham Abbey 22nd Decem 1793
Sir
When at Bretton I received Instructions how to act under certain Circumstances and according to the Exigencies of Cases of the different Nature of the respective Claims. It is most extraordinary there has not one person since the Advertisment of the 3rd Meeting applied to inspect or examine a Claim
I am very glad to hear the Road from Burtry Ford to Alston and from thence
Letter – John Fryer to John Bell – 23 Dec 1793
Newcastle 23rd Decemr 1793
Sir
On the other side I send you an account of the Incroachments which have been noticed in that part of Allendale which I have Surveyed. I am not enabled to give you an account of those in the Shire, having never seen them, but at the times of the Boundary riding. I am Sorry you should think the notice too short. I called upon Messrs Bates the 1st day of decr and we then fixed the Meeting to be on t
advertisement – Nicholas Walton – 25 Dec 1793
LEAD STOLEN
FOUR PIGS of Lead marked G H _ L the property of the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich, in the County of Kent, having between the Evening of the 23rd, and Morning of the 24th Instant, been stolen from the Hospital’s Lead Yard or Wharf, at Skinner Burn, - Notice is hereby given, that any Person or Persons making Information to Messrs Peters, Attornies, in Newcastle, of the Offender or Offenders, so as he, she, or they may be convicted o
Legal Opinion – Robert Hopper Williamson to John Bell – 28 Dec 1793
Case
Sir John Fenwick of Wallington in the County of Northumberland by Inde[nture]s of Lease and Release bearing Date the 1st and 2nd Days of December in the 3rd Year of King James the 2nd and in the Year of our Lord 1687 in Consid[eratio]n of £140 conveyed to Edward Burdett of Grays Inn in the County of Middlesex Esqr All that Messuage Farm Tenement or Sheepwalk with the appurt[enance]s called or known by the Name of Westburnhope and all Lands Tenements and Heridit[ament]s thereunto
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 29 Dec 1793
Thos Richd Beaumont Esqr Newcastle 29th Decr 1793
Bretton near Wakefield Yorkshire
Dr Sir In Ans[we]r to your last Letter I send you annex’d a Calculation of the Amount of the late Sales of Lead as near as I can form a Judgement. I wish it was in my power to make a larger Sale; but at present we have not any demand.
Mr Heron received Mr Skeltons letter and I had some difficulty in prevailing on him to draw
Letter – John Bell to William Bates – 30 Dec 1793
To William Bates of Clarewood in the County of Northumberland Gentleman John Fryer of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne Gentlemen and Thomas Bates of Halton in the said County of Northumberland Gentleman Commissioners named and appointed in and by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the thirtysecond Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the third intitled ‘An Act for dividing and inclosing certain Parts of the Commons Moors or Tracts of Waste Land called Hexhamshire
Letter – Anthony Watts to Mark Skelton – 1 Jan 1794
Hatton Garden 1st. January 1794
Dear Sir/
Beaumont vs. Bosville
I am sorry that I could not Answer yours sooner but the delay has been occasioned by the holidays and Mr. Barkers non attendance during them. I have now this day procured his Sentiments hereon and find the Exemplification must be sent back and Resealed and have the great Seal put to it de novo.
The mistake of the <Test> is certainly a great one and Mr. Barker takes shame to himself that it was returned out
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Augustus Browne – 2 Jan 1794
Augustus Browne Esqr Newcastle 2d January 1794
Foster Lane London
Sir I have this day sent you by Jackson & Jennings the London Carriers a Piece fine Silver containing 1703 Oz, wch I desire you will place to Accot with Thos R Beaumont Esqr as usual at the Markett Price & advise me on yo[u]r Reciept of it I am etc J.E.B
Letter – John Bell to Mark Skelton – 3 Jan 1794
Sir Hexham Abbey 3rd Janury 1794
On the other Half Sheet you have a Copy of Mr & Mrs Beaumont’s Claim for Westburnhope with a Copy of the Objection thereto the persisting in the Claim desiring the same may be refused to the Arbitrators and the Objectors refusing to refer the Claim to the Arbitrators and desiring the same to be tried at law subjoined
When at Bretton I told why I made the Claim
