Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 24 May 1785

Document Type: Letter
Date: 24 May 1785
Correspondent: Nicholas Walton
Recipient: Peter Mulcaster
Archive Source: TNA ADM 66 98
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Messrs. Mulcaster						Farnacres 24 May 1785



      We have just now recd. your Letter of the 22nd. Inst.

      We wish you at all times to be attentive to the Interest of Greenwich Hospital, and have very great satisfaction in finding that you are so. You are perfectly right in what you say as to John Richardson & also as to Thos. Wood. The former we blame very much & have wrote to him this Day such a Letter as we hope will have some Effect with him. With regard to Thos. Wood, we shd. have blamed him if he had come to Langley Mill, because he has been employed for some time past in a matter much more necessary to attend to than the Concerns at Langley Mill for the present, and tho’ Mr Walton did not mention his having spoken to Thomas Wood to go to Langley Mill as soon as he possible could, yet he actually did so, and could not have been satisfied if Thos. Wood had gone sooner than he did.

      We are very much concerned to hear that the Bricks are so bad, but tho’ bad, are they not such as will stand the Weather? If they will Answer, we may think ourselves lucky in being able to get them at all, as the short time allotted for casting the Clay and making the Bricks was understandably a Circumstance very much against both us and the Brick makers. We think you perfectly right in making the Observations you do concerning the Business, but, under the Circumstances we must now make the best of it we can; and we wish most heartily that the whole had been in Stock Bricks. It will be a small Consideration in such an Undertaking as we have now in hand to pay the Difference between Stock Bricks and Common Bricks, and therefore by all means let us proceed and make the best of the people we have by producing Stock Bricks instead of common. If we were to change our Men possibly, nay probably, we might get worse, for we all know the Tribe to be a very bad one - We believe the Price of making Stock Bricks to be 6s/- per Thousand, but if we even have to pay 7s/- we had better do that than stop; however you may depend upon it we will be well informed as to this, and settle with Geo. Turner accordingly.

      We have just had the Founder, Mr. Harrison, here, who thinks that the Determination which was come to by Mr. Walton when Mr. Peter Mulcaster was at Farnacres, - Mr. P. Mulcaster will remember that this Resolution was come to even tho’ it was supposed that Cast Iron might be had for 10s/- per Cwt.

      The Directions you have given abt. the Lead Carriage we very much approve of.

      The Lead Mill & Stublick Colliery Pay must be on Monday the 13th. of June, and the Lead Carriage Pay on the Wednesday following. You will be so good as to take care of the inclosed Letters. We are

      Your Hble Servants

      Walton & Turner

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