Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 27 May 1786

Document Type: Letter
Date: 27 May 1786
Correspondent: Nicholas Walton
Recipient: John Holmes
Archive Source: TNA ADM 66 98
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Mr. John Holmes					Farnacres 27th. May 1786



Dear Sir,

      We duly received your Letter of the 17th. Inst and have this day drawn upon you for £293. 19. 3 being the amount of 1139 Ounces of fine Silver at 5s. 9d. per Ounce after deducting £23. 10s. which you will be pleased to pay to John Snowball, Carpenter of Greenwich Hospital for our Bill payable to him or Order Twenty Days after Date. The Bill draws upon you for £290. 19. 3 is pay[a]ble 50 Days after Date.

      You are desired to be so good as to take the trouble of ordering us 100 Casks of Bone Ashes from Richd. Probert.

      Mr. Walton desires to be remembered to his good Friend Mr. Smeaton from whom he has this day recd. a Letter wch. shall be attended to. It will be about a Month before we send you any more Silver. We are

      Sir Your most Humble Servts.

      Walton & Turner



PS. I deliv[ere]d yr. <respects> to my Father who desires to join in best wishes to you and yours. I observe I have drawn £10 short which mistake shall be rectified in our next Account.

NW Junr.





£293. 19s. 3d.						Farnacres 27th. May 1786

Fifty Days after Date Pay to the Order of Messrs. Bell Carr Cookson Widdrington & Co. Two Hundred and Ninety Three Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Three Pence. Value received as advised by Walton & Turner 

Mr. Holmes London





£23. 10 _						Farnacres 27th. May 1786

Twenty Days after Date Pay to the Order of Mr. John Snowball Twenty Three Pounds Ten Shillings. Value received as advised by Walton & Turner

 Mr. Holmes London

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