Letter – William Thirlwall to Nicholas Walton – 7 Mar 1779

Copy of Letter from Messrs Walton Thirlwall & Bell to Mr Walton Junr

                                                                 

      Alston 7 March 1779

Sir 

      Having now no prospect of any Redress by your means, in the recovering the Money due to us from the Greenwich Hospital, on whose Acct. we granted Credit at the order of Mr Jos'h Hilton their Ag't in this place. We have now come to a Resolution of petitioning the Comm'rs [Commissioners] for the payment of our Bills, and in case of their refusal to try to recover them by such methods as the Law shall direct. If upon a mature consideration, you will procure us the payment of our Money, which certainly lies in your Power, in a short space, and give us Notice of such intention in a Week or or ten days time we will desist from any further application; but if you refuse, your compliance must do it instantaneously. Trusting to the Justness of our Cause, we do expect that if the Hospital refuses that we shall be able to force it to a payment by Law. 

      We thought it but right to acquaint you with our resolved intentions, which considering the distress which Non payment will bring upon us, who are none of us in the most affluent Circumstances, cannot fail to be justified by the Reflections of your own Consciences.

      We are  Your very humble Servants

                      Nich[ola]s Walton   William Thirlwall   John Bell