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Letter – Hugh Boag to William Corbett – 10 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 10, 1741
To William Corbett Esqr.
Sir
Inclosed is our Cash Acct. for Last Month by which you will Please to Observe there is a Balance due from us to the Hospital of £510.16.10. We have this day sent Mr Wood a bill on Mr Bell for the last Loading of Coales amounting to £46.3.7 ½ payable 14 days after date on Acct. of the Rents of the Derwentwater Estate.
We have recd. The Boards Minutes of the 1st July Inst & that […] Observe their
Letter – Hugh Boag to William Bell – 10 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 10, 1741
To William Bell Esqr.
Sir
We sent Mr Corbett the Invoice of the last Loading of Coales on board of the Stephen & jane of Scarbrough, Mr John Hebb Marster amounting to £46.3.7 ½ which we hope you have received in this; We have this day taken the liberty to draw upon you at 14 days date for that Sum payable to Mr James Wood on Accot. Of the Rents of the Derwentwater Estates. I am for Mr Walton & myself
Sir your &c
Letter – Hugh Boag to James Wood – 10 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 10, 1741
To Mr Jas Wood
Sir
Inclosed is a bill upon William Bell Esq. for £46.3.7 ½ the Value of the Last Loading od Coales payable 14 days after date, which please to receive on Accot. of the Rents of the Derwentwater Estate. Please Also to Acknowledge the rct.of the Bill. I am for Mr Walton & myself
Sir Your &c
Hugh Boag
PS
We made it payable 14 days after date as its some time since we paid for the Coales & hop
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Abraham Bunting – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11.1741
To Mr Bunting
Sir
One Mr James Scott of High Shaws in the Parish of Haltwhistle has made a proposal to Take a Lead Mine calld Burchybank in the Parish of Nether Warden at One fifth duty, but the Directors being unacquainted with his Character & Circumstances, have Orderd us to Inform them in that Pticular. I desire you will therefore on rect. of this make the necessary Enquiry and give me your Answer as Speedily as you can. Pray tell Mr C
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Francis Woodhouse – 11 Jul 1741
To Mr Woodhouse Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
Dear Sir
We are extreamely obliged to you for the Care you have taken of despatching <our quarterly acct>, which by yours of the 2d Inst we hope are d[elivere]d to Mr Maule, who we doubt not will forward them to us. The Acct. ending the 30 June last is preparing and will in a months time or less come before our board & Consequently soon after under your <care>. Please to Acquaint Mr Hunter therewith & that a
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Radley – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
Sir
Herewith we send you Mr Wranghams State of the Proceedings in the Suite about the Tyths of East Thornton now demanded by the Vicar of Hartburn with a Coppy of Our Letter to the board sent therewith. & which must be now in their hands. We can give you no further Information having not been Able to make it Appear if 2s 6d was in Lieu of all small tyths, but only for half.
In ours of the 30 June last you shd. have recd. the draught of the
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Richard Horne – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
Sir
We recd. Yours of the 23d June last & also that of the 7 July for both which we beg a <tender> of our hearty thanks. We were very heartily concerned for Poor Mr Mauls Accusation, but we do not question his being Acquitted with Honr, he is in our Oppinion a very honest man, and it is hard he should be Accused for an Act of Inadvertancy; which it must have been if he has done any thing amiss. Pray let us know how the Affair Ended as it
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Mannock Strickland – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
To Mr Manock Strickland
Sir,
Above is my bill on Mr Benjamin Skutt for Ninety Nine pounds which pray Acknowledge the Rect. of after you have got it Accepted & return me a proper Rect. for the Years Annuity due at last Ladyday to Lady Cathrine Radcliffe. The Certificate of the Lady’s being alive you will please to Shew Mr Skutt when you tender the bill to him for Acceptance, and when he pays you the money deliver him it up. I will give a
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
To Wm Corbett Esqr.
Sir
In Obedience to the Boards order of the 29 Apr. last, we have made Enquiry into the Hardships of Thomas Stephenson the Tennant of <Hartside> Colliery which we find to be comprehended in Sinking Shafts Driving Levells and Cutting a dike three times over. He has produced to us an acct. thereof which we send you Inclosed: As to the Certainty of the Expense we cannot Exactly Judge, Altho’ from the Appearance o
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Snow – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
To Messrs Pollock & Snow
Gent.
The want of an opportunity to get bills payable in London has been the occasion of the
Int[erest]: due at last Ladyday to the heirs of Dr Chamberlain being unpaid longer than it shou’d have been, & now it is wth great Inconvenience that I send you my Bill on Mr Ben. Skutt for it, as above. You will please to Acknowledge the Rect. of it by return of the Post & send me a proper Voucher for the yea
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Watson – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
To John Watson Esqr.
Sir
The Rents which are Undermentioned are containd in the Rentall Returnd by youy to the Treasury, of which No return of Arrears were made, so that we do not in the least dispute, but during your Receivership they were regularly paid. Since We have been Concerned the payment of them have been disputed so that without bringing Actions as the Law directs those Rents cannot be recover’d. What I have therefore (by directio
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ridley – 11 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 11. 1741
To Mr John Ridley
We have taken a great deal of pains to find out the Articles by wch it shou’d Appear you are Entitled to an Allowance of Timber in regard the bargain you bought was a hard one, and after all we can find no Such Article. If therefore you cannot come at it you will Certainly have no manner of Allowance on that Acct. By a friend of Ours we have had an Application made to Mr Coulson of Jesmond, who has look’d over all his pap
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 17 Jul 1741
To Wm Corbett Esq Ravensworth Castle July 17 1741
Sir
We have only now to advise you that we sometime agoe advertised the sale of the leda ore dues raised & to be raised within the Derwent.r Estates from Mich last to Mich next for which we have no offers from any persons but the Exec.rs of George Liddell Esqr & ptners wth whom we have agreed at 45s for bouse & 40s for Cutting Ore p Bing wch we hope the Board will approve of. You will observe so that this price is u
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 19 Jul 1741
To Wm Corbett Esq Ravensworth Castle July 1 1741
Sir
Inclosed herein we send you our contingent cct for the last three months which pray lay before the Board for their concurrence. Out acco.t to the 1st May last is very near Ready & will soon be sen you by
Sr yours &c
N Walton H Boag
[There follows a table of detailed expenses available in the PDF of this document]
An Accot. of the Contingent payments made on accot. of the Derwentwater Estate
Letter – Charles Busby to Nicholas Walton – 20 Jul 1741
Corbridge July 20, 1741
Mr Busbies to Messrs Walton & Boag
Sirs
I Received yours of the 11 Inst. & tho the places therein and here under mentioned were returnd me by Mr Errington my Predecessor in his Rentall yet for the 4 Years of my Recvrship I never Recd any rent for them; nor do I believe Mr Errington ever recd any of them because he writ to each place that that rent was never paid, for which reason I gave my self no trouble about them. I am, Sr Yours&c
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 25 Jul 1741
Ravensworth Castle July 25, 1741
To Willm Corbett Esq.
Sir
We reced yours with the Boards Minutes of the 15 July Inst. which we duly observe, & with regard to the Petition of the Hexhamshire Tennants for Repaire of their Chappell, we have given direction to proper persons to gett us a valluation of the Severall Gents Estates within the Chappellry together with their Contributions to this work & as soon as that comes to our hands we will transmit you a State of the
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Snow – 25 Jul 1741
Recd July 16, 1741 of Messrss Walton and Boag Two Hundred & Forty pounds for two Years Interest on Three Thousand pounds due out of the Derwentwater Estate, to the Heirs of Dr Hugh Chamberlane at lady day last past for whose use & by whose order I say recd the sais £240 by me.
Ravensworth Castle July 25, 1741
To Mr Thos Snow
Sir
I recd. yours of the 16 Inst acknowledging the rect. of my bill on Mr Benjamin Skutt for Two hundred Thirty seven Pounds twelve
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Maule – 3 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 3d 1741
To Mr Maule
Sir
We have the favour of yours of the 29 July last Inclosing our two Quarters Ending the 30 June 1739 & the 3d June 1740 for wch we beg a return of our most hearty thanks & Inclosed herin we send you a bill on Mr Skutt for the £49.12.1 ½ you have been so kind as Pay the Auditers to whome pray at your first opportunity present our Complimts for the Dispatch he has been so kind as give to the accot.
We have made up our
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Bell – 3 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 3d 1741
To William Bell Esqr
Sir
We have this day drawn a bill upon you payable to Mr James Wood for One Hundred & three pounds one shilling & fivepence the amount of the two Loading of Coales as per Invoice sent William Corbett Esqr. we hope the Coals will come to your satisfaction & doubt not but you will give due Honr. to our Bill and we are Sir
Yours &c
Nichos. Walton Hugh Boag
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Radley – 3 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 3d 1741
To Mr Radley
Sir
In answer to your Letter in regard to the Libertys which may be proper to grant the purchasers of Derwentwater woods we are of Oppinion the purchasers ought to be exempted from the Damages which may arise to the Tennants upon whose ground the Woods Stand & Grow; only they re to be restraind from Cutting any wood at such times as their shall be Crops of Corne browing where the Woods is interpresd amongst it & in such Ca
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 3 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle 3d Augt. 3d [sic] 1741
To Wm Corbett Esqr.
Sir
Herewith we send you the Bill of Loading Charter Party Invoice of 72 Char. Of Coals Newcastle Measure amounting to £54.11.1/2 shiped on Board of the Submission of Scarbrough Richard Sisson Mastr which we hope will come safe to hand. We have this day drawn on Wm. Bell Esqr. for the value of this and the former Loading amounting to £103.1.5 which we have sent into the hand of the Deputy Treasurrer Mr Wood on A
Letter – Nicholas Walton to James Wood – 3 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt. 3d 1741
To Mr James Wood
Sir
As above we send you on Bill on Wm Bell Esqr for one Hundred & three pounds one shilling & five pence on Accot. of the Rents & Profitts of the Derwentwater Estate wch acknowledge the Recet. Of & youll oblige.
Dr Sr your most Hble Servts
Nichos. Walton Hugh Boag
Ravensworth Castle August 3d 1741
Sr Ten days after date pray pay Mr jas Wood or his Order One Hundred and three
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Radley – 11 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 11 1741
To Mr William Radley
Sir
We reced. Yours of the 6th of Aug Inst & hope that ours of the 3d will be sufficient to answer what you want with Respect to the Derwentwater woods.
Some of the freeholders within the Lords Waists, in the Manour of Wark will prove their having got coals without the Lords Leave or Licence & have sold and disposed of the same, but always in a Forceable Way, as we apprehend. We do not think any Custom can be pr
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 11 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 11 1741
To William Corbett Esqr
Sir
We reced. Yours with the boards minutes of the 5th of August Inst & that of the Generall Court of the 7th May preceeding which we have A due Regard to, and in answer to that part of the Minutes of the 5th Inst we begg leave to Inclose you the advertisement of the lead ore dues which was Inserted in the Newcastle Journall three weeks the first of which of the 9th May last. The proper time of the year for advertis
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Richard Horne – 11 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 11 1741
To Mr Rd. Horne
Dear Sir
We reced. Yours of the 6 Aug Inst & thank you for the kind Intimation you have given us with regard to Mr Stricklands Enquiry, & you may be Assured we will act cautiously.
We are very well Acquainted with most of the miners at <NC [Newcastle?]> and believe we can Serve you, however you may depend upon all we can doe. You Say you would be glad to <Clubb your mites> which we desire you will Explain
