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Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 18 Augt. 1785 We have recd. your Letters of the 16th. & 17th. inst to which we have particularly attended, and as we think Thos. Ions has behaved very improperly with regard to our Letter which was to have been forwarded by his Messenger to Alston we desire you will not pay any thing on that account, nor will we. Mr. Walton has often wished to be with you at Langley Lead Mill during the course of the Works wch. have been lately carried on there, but he was so perfectly satisfied of the Attention of Messrs. Mulcaster that he has been quite easy under the Disappointment of not being able to be with them for so long a time when he was at the same time sensible of several very material alterations and improvements which however he is satisfied have not escaped being taken Notice of. The Weather in this part of the Country has been much the same as you describe. The good by the rain will far more than counterbalance any Disappointment of ours at Langley Mill; possibly we may experience the Benefit of it after our Works are completed when it gets into the Chinks of the Earth, Stublick Colliery Level may gradually afford us a part of it. We hoped that the Refining & Reducing at Langley Mill might have got to work sooner than you expect, but we must be content, not doubting that every thing will be done to have them ready as soon as possible. With regard to the Blagill Mill, we consider it to be very agreeable to have had the Blagill Company accommodated so long as they have been previous to the time they were entitled to any advantage in consequence of the Alterations and Improvements originally proposed for their accommodation. Neither you nor we must think it a Difficulty what time it will take to complete the whole of this Business. It was undertaken for their accommodation, we have not had great inconvenience, and they have had every Indulgence that could possibly be granted to them, and after they get the whole of the works intended for them deliv[ere]d up to them, they certainly will be furnished upon the whole with what will be equal to the original Proposition, which was that they shd. be put into full possession at Lammas, the 12th. inst. This to yourselves. Under the Circumstances you mention we think that it may not be improper for you to give out that we shall want a Refiner, and if anyone shd. apply that you think proper to encourage as a man who has learned the Art, such person ought to be put upon applying to his Employer for leave to serve with us; if he shd. be refused, it will then be time enough to consider what is to be done. We see it wd. be improper to take Forster under the present Circumstances, and we are sorry it so happens. Since writing to you last we observe that the charge of the Cast Iron for the Test <Bowsers> and Rings is made to the Improvements &c now carrying on and not to Langley Mill. Whatever Iron you see to be necessary we shall always be ready to send. The Acct. you give as to the Bricks is indeed very bad, and Geo. Turner must feel the ill effect of it. Any further expense wch. it may be necessary to put Greenwich Hospital to on this acct. (we mean the want of sufficiency on the part of Geo. Turner’s Men) we desire you will let us know the Amount of, and the sooner this whole Business is got completed the better.Nothing can be more agreeable to me than that of encouraging a Propriety of Behaviour, the contrary will always meet with our Resentment. We are Your Hble Servts. Walton & Turner PS. The man who furnishes us with Bone Ashes agreed to allow £5 per Cent on acct. of prompt payments and therefore we think it will be proper to go on with him ’til a thorough Trial is made with respect to the other Ashes, and we must desire you will not take Notice of this matter to anyone.