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Mr. John Homes Farnacres 10th May 1784 Dear Sir, Yesterdays Post brought us your favour of the 6th. Int and we have this day drawn upon you for £248. 6. 10 being the amount of 874 Ounces of fine Silver at 5. 8 ¼ per Oz. after deducting 4s. for Mr. Jno. Waltons Watch, at the same time he received his, Mr. Thomas Walton would have been glad to have received his own Watch which he left with you when in London with his Father in February last. We are sorry to see that Silver is likely to be so low. We are Dear Sir Your most Humble Servts. Walton & Turner PS. The Bill is payable 40 days after date. Best Compliments to Mr. Smeaton & desire you will acquaint him that we are enabled to build the Water House at Spindleston New Mill or Waren Mill so as to Roof all fair with the Mill House & that the Gangway and upper Chamber will lye quite open from the Inside Gable of the Water House to the inside of the Gable of the Mill House next the Bridge & that all is going on well except the Aqueduct a considerable part of which forming the the Woody Bank has Slid quite down & must be supported with a Wall. £248. 6. 10 Farnacres 10 May 1784 Forty days after date pay to the Order of Messrs Bell Carr Cookson Widdrington & Co. Two Hundred and Forty Eight Pounds 6s. & 10d. Value received as Advised by Walton & Turner To Mr. Holmes London