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Farnacres 16 Feby. 1783 Messrs. Mulcaster We have recd. your Letter of 14th with the Assays of Nentsberry Haggs Slags. You are intending to do right in dividing the Lead so as to make two pieces of Silver. What you propose as to the Carriage of the Ore is so perfectly proper that you are desired to make it immediately known to the Carriers that they shall be paid 6d. per Bing for all the Ore they carry from the Mines in Alston Moor from this time to the 17 Day of May inclusive from such Mines as we paid 4 1/8d per Bing for last yr. & for such other Mines as Ore may be brought from this year near to such Mines as 4 2/8d per Bing was paid. 5d & 10d per Bing for Blagill Thorngill Hole & adjoining Mines and 7s/4d per Bing for Windy Brow & the Mines West of Tyne. If any at Greengrove & Rockhill & near to be at 6d. per Bing. We are Your Humble Servts. Walton & Turner PS. You are desired to acquaint us whether they have begun smelting with the Air Furnace at the Cupola and what progress is made in that work.