Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Romer – 17 Feb 1758

To Mr  Romer					Ravensworth Castle   February 17th   1758



Sir

      We reced. your Letter in Answer to ours of the 8th January last, in which you Offered your small Estate at Scremerston for Seven Hundred Pounds with which we acquainted the Board of Directors for Greenwich Hospital, & recommended that which we thought right upon the occasion, in Consequence of which I rec’d last post a letter from Mr Horne acquainting me the Board agree to give you Seven Hundred Pounds for your Estate, to Grant you a Lease of it at £23 p Annum on a Term of 21 years, and to grant you a Lease of the whole Township of Scremerston exclusive of it & Thomas Scott’s Farm at £780 per Annum, upon all wch. I give you Joy.  It will be necessary for us to see you soon in order that this purchase may be carried into execution and for that end I wish you would send the Title Deeds to Mr Clennel or who you think Proper that a short Article may be entered into till the Conveyance can be perfected,  And it will be necessary to see you that the Farm may be Confirmed to you according to the Form we use wth. the rest of the Tenants.  When you have sent the Title Deeds & that the Article is ready I will give you notice, or can you come with them your Self; the Article will be short and cannot require much time.  I shall be glad to have notice of your coming.  I am for Mr Boag & Self

      Sir Yours etc

      N Walton