Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 30 Nov 1784

Messrs. Mulcaster,						Farnacres 30 Novr. 1784



      Your Letters of the 23 rd.> & 27th. are now before us. If you shd. happen to be called upon either by the Gov. & Co. Agents or the Blagill Company, we think all that will be necessary for you to say is that on comparing the Produce from last years Ore and this you find it has taken less Ore to make a Fodder of Lead this year than last; we however hope this Business will be got settled without Difficulty, as we understand Mr. Hall is perfectly satisfied.



Lead sent from Langley Mill viz. By Operation ending 

26 June     845

31 July    1003

28 August   772

2 October  1119

30 October  779

           4518

Lead received at Newcastle by Warehouse. Account ending  

26 June     288

31 July     724

28 August   627

9 October  1137

6 November  753

           3534

            984

On the Road betwn. of Lead which was delivered from the Mill to the 30 October inclusive 



      From the above we are apprehensive you will be right in your Conjectures concerning the Lead being kept too much in the Carriers Hands which we must desire you will speak to them about.

      The Assays No. 1 of Peatstack Hill have not been right calculated, their Weight being <.4/80> which gives 7. 16. 19. 2 whereas you have it 7. 16. 9. 6 The variety of produce per Assay is very extraordinary in the Instances you have last sent particularly Peatstack Hill, and we can only attempt to account for it by supposing that some part of the Ore was <scaly> raised out of <Peatstack Hill> and other part out of some of Mr. Errington & Co.’s Cross Veins.

      What you mention respecting the Behaviour of the Ore Carriers is perfectly right. We now wish most heartily that the Ore Carriage was finished, and as soon after it is finished as possible shd. be glad to have one of you and John Friend and Mr. Temperley to come down for the Cash, but we must have the Pay Bill sent down here a few Days before that we may have all ready put up for you against you arrive, and when you send the Pay Bill, we desire to have John Friends Check Ticket Books, and the new Delivery Book which he got to enter this years Ore into.

      We observe that the loss by Refining & Reducing is nearly a Twelfth as could possibly be expected in this last Operation. We desire that the Operation may not be made out ’til all the Ore of this Year is brot. in and the Account settled, and we are in no hurry about it. We are

      Your Hble Servts.

      Walton & Turner