Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 1 Nov 1786

Document Type: Letter
Date: 1 Nov 1786
Correspondent: Nicholas Walton
Recipient: Peter Mulcaster
Archive Source: TNA ADM 66 98
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Messrs. Mulcaster					Farnacres 1 Nov. 1786



      We have recd. your Letter of the 30th. Ulto. with the two last Weeks Coal & Cinder Accounts, but cannot find more than 2 Assays, which are of the Refineable Lead, and therefore if you took notice of what they weighed we shd. be glad to know that we may enter them in our Assay Book.

      The following is a List of the Lead Carriers with the Quantities they have delivd. at the Warehouse since the 27 May last.



                    Pieces

   Geo: Dickinson    12

   Wm. Wilson        38

   Wm. Havelock      30

   Thos. Robson     149

   Wm. Bell         278

   John Bell        194

   James Johnson    314

   John Corbett     483

   Geo: Goodbed    1120

                   2618

delivd. at Langley 

Mill since 

27 May last        4421

                   1803



      We have the pleasure to acquaint you that the price of Refined Lead is now £17 - - per Fod[de]r but Silver is only 5 / 7 ¾ per Ounce.

      In your Letter of the 25 you desire to know who are to come for the Money for the Pay. Thos. Temperley & Jno. Friend must come, and either of you may accompany them. We are

      Yr. Hble Servts

      Walton & Turner

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