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To Jno Ibbetson Esqr Farnacres 13th April 1779
Sir
It is now only 28 days to the time of the commencement of the Leases upon the biddings made last year and I beg leave again to repeat my earnest desires to have directions
concerning the Letting. If directions shd be so late as that the Tenants cannot be put into possession the 12th of May the Board will be pleased to give Orders what we are to do respecting the Tenants now in Possession as I have reason to think several of them mean to continue to hold for another year & will probably do so, if possession is not, in such case taken for the Hospital. The distress of the Tenants on the determination of the Hospital being so late is I assure you such as not to be described and indeed they are many of them become
so ungovernable that they will not pay the least regard to any thing that is said to them you will therefore most readily conceive the disagreeable and uneasy situation I am in which it is hoped I shall be relieved from in some degree by receiving the Boards immediate commands. On the 12th Ulto. I acquainted you that the Water & Cog Wheels at Whitley Mill had so failed that it would be necessary to have new ones this Summer and that the amount of the Money to be expended in the doing thereof was estimated at £22 - -. Since writing to you I have been at the Mill and find both Wheels very bad the Water Wheel particularly in so much that it is with difficulty the Mill can be kept going. When on the spot and the Mill Wright with me I took into consideration the making an Improvement in the Mill by adding an upright Axis and Spurr Wheel which with the other consequent alterations will only cause an addition of about £13 - - and as the Mill will be much improved by the doing of this I cannot doubt its being for the Interest of Greenwich Hospital to be at the Additional Expence.
On the 29th Ulto. I inclosed you a Memorandum which had been entered into by his Grace the Duke of Northumberlands Agents and myself relative to the Exchange between the Hospital and his Grace and that no loss might happen on account of the Parcel of Ground proposed to be Conveyed to Greenwich Hospital being unoccupied I inserted an Advertisement in the Newcastle Papers in the name of Mr Turner and myself for its being Let
and Entered upon immediately and not having an offer of more than £25 - - for one year I could not take that knowing the Value of the Ground to be considerably more for a Farm and as I thought it likely a proper Rent might be had by letting it for the same Term as the Hospitals Corbridge and Thornbrough Farms I gave directions to Mr Jobling to enter into a treaty with one William Hepple a man reckoned Substantial and who I knew wanted a Farm and Mr Jobling has let it at Forty Pounds p annum for Six Years which I am of opinion is as much as it is worth and doubt not the Boards approbation in what has been done on the occasion.
You receive herewith our Cash Account for the Month of March on which there is a Balance of £1228:8:5 3/4 since which there has been a Bill sent to the Treasurer's Deputy Mr Edwd Boxley for £700 and you also have herewith our Contingent Account from 31 Augt to and with 28th February last amounting to £637:16:6 3/4 which with the Cash Account you'll be pleased to lay before the Board. I am for Mr Turner & Self
Sir Yours &c
N W Junr.
Contingent Payments made on account of the Derwentwater Estate from the 31st August to and with the 28 Feby 1779 as follows:
1778
Sep 7 pd Messrs Penman& Robson for making estimates for
Housing at Newlands and Woods Close £ - 15 -
19 Jno Riddle & others for water pipes &c for Scremerston
Mill and fixing the same 9 12 8 1/2
Oct 11 pd Mrs Ann Wilson for carriage of the plan of the Long
Ditch from Newcastle to London 4 8
29 pd Wm brown Jnr for damage of ground at Throckley by the
Fall of wood & for damage to Hedges by the same 9 16 2
pd Robt Shepherd Two Years allowance due 12 May last on
account of ground taken from his farm at Whittle for
growing wood upon 9 6 -
pd Do for Plowing Gills Haugh part of the said Ground - 10 6
pd for damage of ground by carriage of stones for
fencing the said wood ground 1 - -
pd George Wrightson for attending to the Driving of a
drift in Wallbottle Moor Colliery by way of ascertaining
the barrier left by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland
for the security of Throckley Colliery 10 10 -
pd Mr Jno Surtees for dressing quicks at Newland &
Whittonstall 2 4 6 1/4
pd Do the expense of fencing quicks at Newlands 1 4
pd Do for making and fixing two stiles at do 2 6
pd Do for collecting & carriage of stakes & putting
them into a house at Do 1 11 9
pd Do for making and fixing a gate & gate posts
at Highfield - 7 3
pd Do winning, leading, dressing & cutting Oak bark
at Newlands 7 19 5 1/2
pd Do for expenses selling wood – 18 -
pd Do for removing wood & roots at Newlands - 7 8
31 pd Mr Edwd Sibbit for opening out & weeding quicks at
Scremerston - 9 -
pd Do for planting quicks and trees in a nursery at Do - 2 -
pd Do filling up the vacancies with quicks round the
Night Close at Do - 3 -
pd for scouring the hedge between Mr Romers Stack Yd &
the Turnpike road to Scremerston – 15 11
pd Do 7 thousand quicks planted at Do 2 9 -
pd for opening and Unwatering a Freestone quarry at
Scremerston 5 15 1
Nov 2 pd Mr John Wren for weeding & peeling wood at Keswick 4 11 6
pd Do for selling Fire Wood and Bark from the woods
at Keswick & Thornthwaite - 2 -
pd Do for repairing deer close fence - 6 6
pd Do for carriage of an oak tree from Thornthwaite to
Keswick Mill – 12 6
pd Mr Wm Dodd for stubbing wood at Buteland 1 12 5
pd Do for expenses on acct of wood at Do – 6 -
pd Wm Todd one years allowance due 12 May last on acct
of the Dove Coat Close at Dilston being fenced off for
growing wood upon 4 4 -
pd Mr John Wren half a years postage due Mich last - 7 6
pd Mr Jona Hilton for assistants in Dialing measuring
and levelling the Underground works at Rampgill and
Coal Cleugh by way of fixing the Boundary of Rampgill
Vein in the Great Limestone – 12 -
pd Do for assistants Dialing in Windy Brow Lead Mine - 3 -
pd Mr John Wren for repairing Keswick Mill Dam - 7 6
pd Do for repairing Keswick Shambles 1 9 10
pd Do for repairing Do Moot Hall windows - 5 10
3 pd John Martinson 2 years allowance on acct of ground
fenced off at Highwood for growing wood upon due 12th
May last 4 5 -
12 pd Ra. Westgarth for making lime to repair at Harsondale - 4 -
14 pd Mr John Fryer for copying a plan of Spindleston and
Outchester 2 2 -
pd Do for 2 plans of that part of the Manor of Alston
Moor wherein Mr Gill has proposed to make Tryals for
Lead Mines 10 10 -
pd Mr Edwd Bell for a Barn Floor for Meldon Park Fam 1 5 -
pd Do one moiety of expence for repair of Meldon Chancel 1 7 4 1/2
pd Do for carriage of materials for new buildings at
Meldon Park 45 8 4
pd Robt Nixon for do 52 2 9
16 pd Mr Edwd Bell for a Water Cart and screen 4 1 -
pd Do for making tryals for Water on Hartburn Graine
South Farm 5 1 -
pd do for books and paper - 8 6
pd Mr Edwd Bell for a Gate and Gateposts for Meldon Park
North Farm & for repairing the Park Wall & fixing the
Gate and Posts 1 13 -
pd do for casting drains in Hartburngrainge Moor Farm 2 2 4
pd do for making conduits in Do Middle Farm 8 2 2
pd do at Needlesshall 7 7 8
pd do for cleaning out a ditch at Hartburngrainge - 2 4
pd do for facing Quicks with stones at Do - 2 4
pd do for dressing Quicks at Do - 10 6
pd do for Do at Needlesshall - 3 6
pd do for Do at Meldon & Meldon Park - 14 6
20 pd Mr Farrer expences on acct of attending a meeting
of the Commissioners appt to divide Corbridge Common – 19 1
21 pd Mr Geo Sample for 500 quicks planted in Hexhamshire - 5 3
pd Do for making a small wear at Peacock House – 13 -
pd Do for chopping oak bark at Highwood Baggraw
Mirehouse & Salmon Field 4 4 -
pd Do for hoeing & burning brushwood at Longhope – 13 9
pd Do for do at Aydon Shields – 15 -
pd Mr Nick Thornton for repairing a Road on the Chapel
Hills at Haydon Bridge 1 7 8
pd Do for cleaning old guns and bayonets - 7 6
pd Do for pulling down an old house at Altonside - 3 6
pd Do for pulling down old houses at East Deanraw 3 14 8
pd Mr John Jobling for altering a road at Dilston - 5 10
pd Do for expences attending a meeting of the
proprietors of Corbridge relative to the division - 3 6
pd Do for making 4 conduits on the side of the
turnpike road at Whittle – 10 -
pd Do for a messenger with a letter from the Receivers
to Mr Sample one of the Hospitals Bailiffs - 2 -
pd Do what he gave Geo Tweddell for shewing the boundary
claimed by the Callerton freeholders on Throckley Fell - 6 -
pd Do for making a Wear at Whittle Burn 2 11 -
pd Do for repairing a breach made by the water joining
the Hanging Baulks at Dilston – 13 4
pd Do for repairing Widehaugh Wears – 12 8
pd Mr Nick Thornton for repairing the thatch of houses
on George Gibson’s farm at Fourstones - 4 8
pd Mr Jn Richardson for making a conduit at Alston Mill 6 19 6
pd Do for enlarging the Water House at Alston Mill &
new roofing for the same also for fixing a Window
& trough 13 - -
pd Mr John Jobling for repairing Whittle Mill dam 1 - 10
pd Do for repairing Dilston Mill race 3 7 8
pd Mr Nick Thornton for carriage of materials for the
new buildings at Land Ends West Farm 81 5 4
pd Do for Do at Mill Hills East farm 89 14 1
pd Do for Do at Allerwash 43 18 10
pd Mr John Jobling for 8 gate posts for Coastley Farm – 12 -
pd Do for 18 Do for Highwood 1 7 0
pd Do for 6 Do for Whittle Farms & fixing the same – 12 -
pd Do for hanging gates at Do - 9 6
pd Do for building 1 rood of wall at Whittle & for
2 gate posts and fixing the same - 9 4
pd Do for walling Gate Cheeks at Thornbrough - 1 8
pd Do for cleaning quicks at Do 1 12 8
pd Do for dressing quicks at Whittle 2 10 2
pd Do for clipping do at do - 2 4
pd Do for cleaning quicks at Dilston - 14 -
pd Do for 2 gate posts for Dilston New Town farm - 3 -
pd Do for 2 do for Dilston Park South farm - 3 -
pd Do for carriage of & lodging Hedge stakes in the
Barn at Dilston 2 5 9
pd Do for materials for & making 79 gates for the
Derwentwater Estate 28 15 6
pd Do for 2 pieces of Lead for fixing gate crooks in Do 2 - -
pd Do for 173 gate posts got at Dilston for the use
of the Derwentwater Estate 9 15 -
pd Mr Nick Thornton for cleaning Quicks in the
Barony of Langley 1 10 11
pd Do for carriage of 13 gates from Dilston for farms
in the Barony of Langley - 4 4
pd Do for cutting & peeling wood in the Langley Barony 17 19 8
pd Do for carriage of & stacking oak bark in Do 1 11 2
pd Do for carriage of wood from several woods in Do
to Howdenside for sale 1 10 8
pd Mr Jos. Farrer what he pd for gathering sycamore
seed to plant in the Derwentwater Estate - 3 -
pd Mr John Jobling for carriage of acorns & sycamore
seed from Gateshead to whittle, Thornbrough – 16 -
pd Do for gathering nuts to plant at Dilston - 4 -
pd Do for gathering sycamore seed - 5 3
pd Do for plowing ground for and planting acorns and
sycamore seed at Dilston 3 7 -
pd Do for planting acorns, sycamore & horse chestnut
seed at Thornbrough 1 6 -
pd Do for planting acorns & sycamore seed at Whittle 2 13 2
pd Do for weeding beech & dressing young trees at Do - 3 6
pd Do for stubbing wood in Spences Bank at Dilston – 17 6
pd Do for Do wood & quicks in Yew Tree Haugh at Do - 8 6
pd Do for dragging Oak weedings out of the wood at Do - 3 6
pd Do for chopping Oak bark at Do 2 5 -
pd Do for his trouble & expences valuing wood in
Hexhamshire, Highwood, Newlands, Coastley and
Langley Barony 2 2 -
pd Do for blasting & removing tree roots at Throckley 4 16 10
24 pd Mr Jos.h Riddell for acorns planted in the
Derwentwater Estate 2 12 -
28 pd Messrs Donkin for blocks for several mills in the
Derwentwater Estate 5 14 6
1779
Jany 4 pd Mr Josias Farrer for postage of letters last year on
Account of Greenwich Hospital 4 6 7
13 pd Mr Wm Charnley stationer in full of his bill 12 3 2
22 pd Messrs Surtees Newcastle & Snowball for building
House yard, & fold walls at Allerwash and for fixing
a door case therein 13 17 8
pd Do for fire grates & fixing at Dilston Park 2 1 11
25 pd expences on acct of Reading over the drafts of
Awards for the divisions of Lees & Fourstones Commons
at a meeting in Hexham pursuant to advertisement of
the Commissioners appointed to divide the said commons – 18 5
Feb 11 pd Mr Wm Pattison for making packing boxes - 4 2
£637 16 6 3/4
Farnacres 13th April 1779
Errors excepted W & T
