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Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 1 Jul 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co London July 1st 1833
I have duly rec[eive]d your fav[ou]r of the 26th,27th,29thUlt and am glad to learn the price at <ch/10> you have effected Sales of 5000 P[iece]s Lead. This I trust will establish the Bill in the Market and enable you to make further sales. In the course of the week I will send a statement of our stock. Monthly Cash and etc et.c I note your sale of the two pieces of Silver and the Payment of the Proceeds Am[oun]ts to £48
Journal entry – John Grey – 1 Jul 1833
Monday 1st July 1833
Sent Mr Hunt off this morning to endeavour to ascertain from old Watson, of Allerwash, who has lived long at the place, the portions of boundary fence belonging to the different farms which have allotments on Grindon Common, about which the ne Tenants are not agreed, & if he can get that point fixed to make an agreement with one of the parties from whom I have had proposals for repairing the walls – He will be engaged for a day or two in examining the draining in th
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 2 Jul 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson& Co London July 2nd 1833
I return you enclosed the Bill of Messrs <Pallatreau Per> & fils accepted by Mr W. F. Blackett payable at Messrs <Tobarts> & Co.
I have this day forwarded to your address as usual by Jackson & Co Waggon a piece of fine Silver weighing 776 3/4 Oz which you will please to dispose of to the best advantage.
BJ
Journal entry – John Grey – 2 Jul 1833
Tuesday 2nd July 1833
Rode to Westwood, which is let to Mr Snowball for one year – This is a compact, pleasant little Farm of 147 Acres, of land generally good quality and well situated for Shelter & climate, but too small in size to be managed to advantage – The appearance of the present crops, does not warrant he high rent which has been usually given for this farm, & which leaves strong indications of want of rest – The House is new and neat. The Offices in good repair – Th
Journal entry – John Grey – 3 Jul 1833
Wednesday 3rd July 1833
Engaged most of this day in writing & attending to business in the Office, also having several confrences with tenants on their way to Stagshaw fair, some urging their claims for certain repairs of their farm buildings respecting which I had no instructions, and others stating the necessity they would be under if they could not obtain abatement, of giving up their farms – I wrote to Mr Mitchell of Otterburn requiring immediate payment of £112.5.10 due by hi
Journal entry – John Grey – 4 Jul 1833
Thursday 4th July 1833
This being the day of the Fair, I had at an early hour, interviews with several of the Tenants from different quarters – Mr Howdon with a plan of the new buildings to be made upon the farm he has entered to, at Haydon town, which he is now desirous to begin – After discussing the Plan etc & ascertaining the prices per yard, at which he would undertake the work, which I consider reasonable, with the understanding that it should be subject to the inspection of any
Journal entry – John Grey – 5 Jul 1833
Friday 5th July 1833
I have been engaged for some hours in the Office, & afterwards occupied till evening with Mr Hunt and the Contractor for the work at the Dilston embankments, in narrowly investigating the encroachments of the river, upon the banks and plantations and endeavouring to come to a decision upon the most effectual & economical mode of securing them, which is a very difficult and perplexing subject.
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Thomas Maltby – 6 Jul 1833
Messrs Maltby & Co July 6 1833
D[ea]r Sirs
I am favoured with your letter of the 3rd Inst. I wish Mr Hodgson a few days ago to request he would arrange with you to pay the amount of the 20,000 p[iece]s of lead when due, in cash to Mr Beaumonts Credit with Batson Berry & Co at Glyn & Co. I have no doubt he will have seen you upon it & have made such arrangement.
I am Ser[vant] BJ
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Grace & Freeman – 6 Jul 1833
Messrs Grace & Freeman 6 July 1833
I beg leave to advise you of Shipment of the last 300 frs Ref[ine]d Lead purchased by you of Mr Key. I shall commence with your purchase of 2000 P[iece]s of Mr Hodgson next Mo[nth] giving you an a/c of the expenses of Shipping with each parcel, which shall be affected at the lowest rate.
I am <dear sir> BJ
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 6 Jul 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co 6 July 1833
I now send you my Cash A/c & Stockton List. It is quite evident that we must substitute ordinary Refined Lead for Common & the sooner we commence to make our sales half Ref[ine]d half Com[mon] including one tenth Slag the better. I have this day sent you by Jackson & Cos Waggon a p[iece]e of fine Silver w[eigh]t 1401 1/8 Ozs. I must trouble you to forward to Mr Beaumont in case he should not return to London before he goes to
Journal entry – John Grey – 6 Jul 1833
Saturday 6th July 1833
After writing some letters & attending to business in. the office, I went according to appointment to Haydon town Farm, to decide upon the plan of the Buildings to be erected there this summer. The Farm house has been already repaired by Mr Hoopers directions, & the necessity of the other buildings also agreed upon, but the precise arrangement of them, left to future consideration – after particular examination of the ground, which is very uneven, & a view
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Robert Stagg – 7 Jul 1833
I beg leave to hand your Statement of the quantity of Ore received by Mr Beaumont in Weardale in the year of and in Sept[ember] 30th 26, by <2 v/8 > since 1832 and will feel obliged by you furnishing me with the quantity revised by the Lead Company in that year to the 30th Sep[tember] same period.
Journal entry – John Grey – 8 Jul 1833
Monday 8th July 1833
Having answered some Letters which I shall forward by tomorrows Post, as they relate to transactions with which Mr Hooper id acquainted I rode to Allerwash & Eastbrokenhaugh – at the latter place, some internal repairs are making at the farm house – I then proceeded to Lipwoodwell, where the Workmen were beginning to the intended building – I found after much consideration & contrivance, that the old hovel could not be saved without a greater sacrifice of co
Journal entry – John Grey – 9 Jul 1833
Tuesday 9th July 1833
After being engaged for sometime in the Office I rode to Hexham market where I received from Mr Errington Ridley £77.19.1 being the balance due for Bark, and paid £80 to Mr Benson on account of buildings at Grindon – also saw many of the tenants on other matters, but failed to obtain the payment of any arrears, which I wished, rather than expected – The prices of Corn continues very low, & in this part of the country it is generally spoiled & of inferior qu
Journal entry – John Grey – 10 Jul 1833
Wednesday 10th July 1833
Received from Mr Thomas Dickinson applications from three parties for permission to make trial of certain veins in the Manor of Alstonmoor upon the usual terms, which I have authorized upon his recommendation & which are recorded in the customary manner in the Office Book – Had an interview with Mr Green respecting the repair of buildings at Whittle which were ordered according to estimate of 1832 - & for which he had prepared Timber and made the Doors etc â
Journal entry – John Grey – 13 Jul 1833
Saturday 13th July 1833
I rode to Scremerston, having previously written to apprize Mr Hogarth of my intention of calling upon him, hoping to find him prepared to settle the arrear of Rent, which however he said it was not yet in his power to do – I also received a Note from Mrs Thomson of Glororum, asking for a longer time to pay the sum £100 left by her at the last rent day – I then went to Mr Pringle’s but found that he had gone to Tinmouth to look after a fishing concern which he h
Journal entry – John Grey – 15 Jul 1833
Monday 15th July 1833
I rode over to Learmouth to see the manner in which the encroachments of the Tweed upon Lord Grey’s property there had been guarded against. In one part, it has been done by laying large flat Stones of equal size in rows, beginning at the river’s edge, & receding as they advance in height like steps of stairs. A good deal of this has given way, owing to the gravel upon which it is founded, having been washed out, which loosens the stones at the Bottom – and in
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 16 Jul 1833
Finlay Hodgson& Co July 16 1833
D[ea]r Sirs
I am in receipt of your favours of 6th 12 Inst the former advising of the receipt of £271.3.6 from Messrs Grace & Freeman & the payment of the same to Mr Beaumonts Credit at Glyn & Co & Mr Keys A/c of bills & Payments for the month of June, the latter of the receipt of Balance from Messrs Bayley & Co of £101 & pay to Mr B[eaumon]t credit at Glyn & Co.
I have this day forwarded to your address
Journal entry – John Grey – 16 Jul 1833
Tuesday 16th July 1833
I left Milfield Hll, having written to Lord Tankerville’s Bailiff, & the tenant of Chillingham Newtown, to meet me at the river’s side that I might see the work lately done & ascertain the expense etc. – This Mr Jobson kindly did, & in the absence of the Bailiff who was otherwise engaged, furnished me with the cost – Except that the body of water here is much less than in the Tyne, the Banks pretty much resemble those at Dilston, & the manner ad
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Robert Stagg – 17 Jul 1833
Rob[er]t Stagg Esq July 17th1833
Annexed you have [a] Statement of the quantity of Lead Ore received by Mr B[eaumon]t from his Weardale Mines in the year ending Sept[ember] 30th 1832 and the Am[oun]t of Composition due to him from the Lead Co for the 409 5/8 Bings received by them
Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Jul 1833
Wednesday 17th July 1833
Rode in the morning 12 miles to Hartburngrainge where I visited the three farms belonging to the Hospital, giving the respective tenants charge of directing & superintending such repairs of their buildings, chiefly the roofs, as are absolutely necessary to be done before winter, to secure the timber & floors from further decay, leaving all new & more expensive erections that they either wished for, or expected, to future consideration – One Barn & Gr
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Grace & Yallop – 18 Jul 1833
Messrs Grace & Yallop July 18th 1833
Sirs
Our lowest price for WB Litharge is fourteen Pounds & ten Shillings per ton delivered on the same terms as your last purchase.
Yours BJ
Journal entry – John Grey – 18 Jul 1833
Thursday 18th July 1833
I received from Mr Bell some Plans of the late workings of Stublick Colliery, which I shall hand to the present Lessee. Remitted the Rent (£95) of Tarretburn allotment up to the 12th May last, to Sir M W Ridley’s Agent, which had been received at this Office by mistake – Wrote to Mr Gibson fixing a meeting with the Hexham Road Trustees at Riding Mill, as they propose, on the 8th August to consider their intended change of road near Dilston. Also wrote to Mr. Hoope
Journal entry – John Grey – 19 Jul 1833
Friday 19th July 1833
I was called upon this morning by the tenant of Woodhall Mill, asking permission to sell some hay – He produced an account of a quantity of manure bought by him at Haydon Bridge & laid upon his land, also of the straw of certain Tithe Corn which had been consumed on the premises – In consideration of which, & his promise to continue to bring dung from Haydon Bridge, I thought it right to grant his request.
I had a call from the Representative of the late
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 20 Jul 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co London July 20th 1833
I have duly received your letter of the 16th inst and am this day advised by Messrs Batson & Co of the Payment of £5500 by Messrs Maltby & Co to Mr Beaumonts credit at Glyn & Co on the 15th Inst. I have this day sent by Jackson & Co Waggon to your address as usual a piece of fine Silver from the Blaydon Refinery weighing 16631/2 Oz which you will please to dispose of to the best advantage.
