Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Corbett – 12 Dec 1735

To Thomas Corbett Esqr

                                                                               Ravensworth Castle   Decemr 12th 1735

Sr	

      We recd yours of the Sixth of December Inst with a Rentall of the Derwentwater Estate, which we thought proper to acknowledge; and we will take care to informe you of any Errors that appear to us in any part of it.

	We have pursuant to your directions appointed Mr Robert Johnson Bailiff in the Roome of Mr Readhead & Mr Abraham Bunting in the roome of John Atkinson & Mr Joseph Pearson is wrote to in Comformity to your Commands.

	The Commission we have had the Honour to receive, Shall be now, imediately putt in execution, & we hope to discharge it with Fidelity, & Satisfaction to the Directors, & you Shall have our opinions, from time to time, how farr any of the Rents may be rais’d, or otherwise are improvable, but we cannot be so exact in a View in that point, as we may be enabled to be, by a Survey of the Estate. & we think a general Survey of it should be putt in execution imediately as the Estate is extensive & will require time.

	We intent to Sett forward, next Monday, to View as much of the Estate as we can before Christmas, & to receive the Rents thereof, & we will give you are opinions at our returne, what part of the Estate is most likely to Sell well; Castleridge is the most remote from the Bulk thereof.

	To whom Sr Shall we returne the Rents of the Estate, we desire you will be pleased to lett us know, as we intend to return them as fast as they come into our hands; & we also desire you will be pleased to lett us know what outgoings are payable out of the Estate which you intend to be paid by us.   

      We are Sr Your most Obedt Servts

                  Nichos Walton	Hugh Boag