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Messrs Mulcaster, Farnacres 7 September 1787.
We received your Letter of the <5th> Inst with a Copy of ours of the 3rd.
The Pay will most certainly be about the Middle of October, and therefore if you can contrive to refine and reduce as much as will make a good Cake of Silver so as to bring it within the Pay we shall have no objection, and we must repeat that it is our utmost wish to get as far forward with Smelting and Refining as possible consistent with having the work properly done, and it is our particular desire that if ever there should be any weighed-over Ore at the end of the year, we should have the Duty of it to Langley Lead Mills and indeed we think that to be necessary and that it ought to be done as far as it can be practicable, and we approve of what you propose writing to Messrs Temperley & Friend upon the occasion.
We are much obliged by your care as to the Hay, and hope it will look as handsome when we come to the Mill as, from your account, it does now. When it is offered to Sale (which perhaps it never will be) perhaps it will not look quite so handsome.
The Farmers in this Neighbourhood are wishing to get forward with their Corn Harvest, but have been prevented by foggy weather and this Day by Rain; it certainly has been the worst season ever known for Hay & Peats, and now does not promise better for the Corn Harvest, it is however our Duty to be content and make the best of it. We are
Your Humble Servants
Walton & Turner
