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Messrs. Mulcaster Farnacres 21 Nov. 1786 We have recd. your Letters of the 20th. Inst, and desire you will do whatever you think proper concerning the Slags at Woodhall, as we are certain you not only know what is best to be done, but that you will do that; and we send you a Letter which we have recd. from Mr. John Cooke concerning this Business. We do not think it at all proper to limit you in any respect as to this Matter, and therefore desire you will act both as to manner and price as you think best. Tho’ we do not expect that any good will come as to the Enquiry concerning Lead Stealing yet we cannot but think it our Duty to have this Matter further enquired into, and therefore desire that Mr. Peter Mulcaster may go to Carlisle again and apply to Mr John Mitchinson to whom you are desired to deliver the inclosed Letter wch. we send open to you; if Mr. Mitchinson should happen to be from home you are desired to apply to Mr Hugh <Stanyer>, and shew the Letter to him which we have sent you for Mr. Mitchinson, and desire him only to accompany you to any Magistrate in Carlisle in case it shd. be necessary to apply to a Magistrate; for Mr. Peter Mulcaster’s own good sense will dictate to him whether any further Information which Ann Strickland may be enabled to give will make it necessary to apply to a Magistrate, and at all Events we think it will be by no means proper to give Ann Strickland any more Money. It is our opinion that particular attention shd. be had as to the time when the Offences wch. Ann Strickland gives an acct. of were committed, and we shd. be glad that you wd. examine her particularly as to the stealing of the Lead from Sir Thomas Blackett because if Mr. Blackett shd. think proper he may make further Enquiries into that, and your doing so will not only be obliging to us, but we are certain very much so to him. Any other particulars which you may think proper to enquire into we desire you will, as we think the more Circumstances we can come at the better. This Idea is however upon the supposition that the Circumstances will be founded on facts, but this after all we very much doubt. Mr. Mitchinson is a Quaker, but practices as a Conveyancer, and is a very sensible Man, and we desire that you will employ him not only in advising what Magistrate you are to apply to, but that you will take him along wth. you to the Magistrate and that you will pay him what he charges for his trouble. We are of opinion that it will be proper for you not to take Notice which way you are going when you set off for Carlisle. What you say as to Dukes Hall shall be attended to. We are r. Hble Servts. Walton & Turner PS. I send you inclosed Mr. Tweddell’s Letters of the 9th. and 20th. Inst which desire you will take care of & return to me after you have done with them, and I also send you Mr. Hopper Williamson’s Opinion and a Copy of the examination of Ann Strickland wch. you are desired also to return to me when you find you have no further occasion for them. After Mr. Peter Mulcaster returns Home, it will be proper for him immediately to wait upon Mr. Tweddell, and as I suppose in case the Magistrate at Carlisle shd. think proper to issue a Warrant it will be deliv[ere]d to a Peace Officer, that peace officer and Mr. Mulcaster must come together to Mr. Tweddell to get the Warrant backed, and afterw[ar]ds such Officer, or other Officer as Mr. Tweddell shall advise, must take the person or persons into Custody who are specified in such Warrant. I am Nich. Walton Junr.