Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Germaine Lavie – 19 Mar 1771

A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Lavie				19th March 1771



Sir,

In a Letter to you the 11 Feby Last I inclosed Paybills for Stanhope Burn Lead Mine repairs of the Lead Mill and Alston Moor Mines from Michs 1769 to Michs 1770 with some other Accounts & would be glad to know if you received them as they were put in four Letters in order to save Postage the Grants for Howblagill & a Vein North of Do. Granted by the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital were forfeited by not working the same according to the above Grants but the said Commissioners are still willing to revue the said Grants on my Lord Carlisle or Mr Cleaver makeing new Proposals but the Commissioners cannot specify in their Leases my Lord & Mr Cleavers Pticular shairs it would be right that my lord & Mr Cleaver should settle whither the Proposals must be maid out in my Lord Carlisle & Mr Cleavers name Equally or Wholly in my Lords Name or wholly in Mr Cleavers Name & the party that the Grants are maid to by the Commissioners may give security to the other for his shair this should be done with all Possable dispatch as no Proposals can be made till this be done I have this Day wrot Mr Cleaver to the same purpot desiring the above affair may be settled with all convenient speed. Bacon’s Level will be railed to the forehead against Lady Day as I wrot you before & as soon as I let the Men Bargons their which will be about Lady Day will writ you again Greengill West End is granted to John Cleaver & Company & a lease for the same is riddy to be filled up so soon as my Lord & Mr Cleaver have agreed as above.

      I am &ca Jona Hilton