Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 13 Feb 1785

Document Type: Letter
Date: 13 Feb 1785
Correspondent: Nicholas Walton
Recipient: Peter Mulcaster
Archive Source: TNA ADM 66 98
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Messrs. Mulcaster							Farnacres 13 Feb. 1785



      Inclosed I send you some Memorandums concerning Langley Farm &c as applied to the intended erection of a Lead Mill by the Blagill Company, and desire to have your & Mr. Thornton’s joint Sentiments upon the following Matters so as that with Certainty, I may receive the Acct. from you if possible by the Post which comes down from Hexham on Thursday; but if you cannot let me hear from you then, I must hear from you by the Carrier who will arrive in Newcastle on Friday Morning. My wish is to have as exact a Valuation of the Ground which is contained in the Memorandum above referred to amounting to 90 Acres as your knowledge with that of Mr. Thornton will enable you to make, and you will observe that by my reckoning 90 Acres to be liable to be damaged. I am supposing the New Mill is to stand at a Distance from our Mill, & if I am under or over in the Quantities which I have set down, you will be so good as to set that right. You’ll take notice that I reckon only a part of the East Shield Field & a part of the West Shield Field will be damaged; my reason for which is that I think if 12 Acres of the West Shield Field on the Lower part thereof are laid as for Damage by the new Mill, & the whole of what was intended for yr. Home Pasture laid to yr. present Cow Pasture, that will probably answer your need even better than at present, and you wd. then have 2 Cow Pastures, one of 12 Acres, & the other about 15 ½ Acres, I have reckoned the whole of Little Mill as liable to Damage, but only part of Castle & Kiln Fields; perhaps some part of Little Hill may be reckoned safe, but notwithstanding I think the whole of it shd. be included in what is expected to receive Damage. These being my Ideas respecting the Situation of a new Mill at a Distance below our Refinery, I now come to that part of this Subject which relates to a new Mill being situated near to the Refinery which part of this Business, I must leave to your Discretion to Determine as far as you can by way of opinion only, what Ground shd. be allotted as being liable to be damaged in addition to the Ground now damaged by our own Mill &c only I would first mention that I think it clear these will be our <Lands> of Robinson & Forster’s Farms, that part of the Mains & the Cow Pasture wd. be damaged, and the low part of your Cow Pasture, so that at all Events if a New Mill is to be erected, I wd. have the Alteration made so as that you might have 2 Cow Pastures instead the one you now have. I doubt not the Ground is covered with Snow, and that the Valuation you make of the Grounds will be from your Remembrance after using it at over many times, and perhaps if you were to get Mrs. Brown to bring up her Lease so as to have an Opportunity of seeing the Plan of Langley Castle Farm, it might be of use to you in marking off the parts liable to Damage. I am

      Your Hble Servt.

      Nich. Walton Junr.

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