Srs
I wrote you some time ago, of a Complaint sent me by Mr Abraham Bunting The Com[missioner]s of Greenwich Bailiffe for the Manor of Wark on which you desired a State of that affair. The Case is this - at the last Court Baron held for the Manor of Wark Judgem[en]t was given, in two plaintifs on account of debt for 39s:11d tryed there. For respective pl[ain]t[iffs] in Each accot. One ag[ains]t One Thos. Read of Humshaugh and another against Wm. Smith of Haughton with the said Smith &
To Mr Ja Wood. Ravensworth Castle October 14 1743
Dear Sir
I herein Send you Mr Ralph Fetherston’s bill on Samuel Child Esq & Co for One Thousand Pounds dated the 8th Inst and payable 28 days after date on Acct of the Rents and Profitts of the Derwentwater Estate which pray acknowledge the Recet of & you’l oblige.
Sir, Your most Hble Servt
Nichos Walton
Ralph Fetherstons bill on S Child Esq dated 8 Inst at 28 ds £10
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A paper endorsed 'Bill & answer. The case between the Rector & Bp' is, with the notes which are in the margin of the original document, entirely in the handwriting of bishop Chandler. It is here given:
[original as transcribed:]
‘The Bishops of Durham have been possessed very antiently of the Lordship & Mannor of Stanhop & the Moors or Wasts in Weredale, wch are 30 miles or more in extent belonging to the said Mannor.
My very good Lord Durham, Oct. 23rd. 1743
With the greatest Pleasure I give this short Return to your Lordship’s kind Desires, concerning your Lordship’s Dues belonging to your Manour of Weredale as the Rectors Tyth of Lead Oar.
I presume to think the ninth Load taken at the Grooves or Pitts of unwashed Oar, is not better than the Tenth of washed Oar, so cannot pronounce any Injury done to the Rectors, as I’m confident all Traders in Lead must determine. For thoâ
COPY of part of A Letter from the Lady Darwentwater Trustee and Guardian for her Son the honourable John Radcliff Esqr. dat[ed] June 8, 1720
To Thomas Errington Gent. at Capheaton in Northumberland her Agent and Steward as follows:
This is to lett you know that I would have you to renew the Lease of the Tythe from the Dean & Chapter: You must be Sure to agree for it at Midsumer; otherwise they say those Gents Rule is to advance considerably; You must make use of Some protestant Tru
My Lord Stanhope Decr. 2. 1743
I am honour’d with your Lordships Letter of the 26th Ulto., and have on the other side ascertained the Sum due from Mr Blacket to your Lordship for the Lot oar of the last year, I cannot foresee any way whereby they can reduce it lower, unless by deducting £4.15s from the dues of 45 bings got at Prydale, for which they will perhaps alledge they ought but to pay 20s per bing, because it is within the enclosures; and by reckoning the oar of Dodhill
My Lord Mr Richmond 16 Dec 43
I Receiv’d your Ldships Lre of the 10th, with your Account of the lot Oar raisd in Weardale between the 1 July 1742 & 1st July last, which differs 9l.12s.7d with the Acct sent to me by the Grove Stewards, whose acct I have herewith inclosed, & desire yor. Lordsp will please to send it to your Agent with Directions to compare matters with Mr Blacketts servants in Weardale that wee may know where the mistake lies, When that is done I will endea
My Lord
I have us’d my best Endeavours to procure your Ldship a bill for the amount of your last years dues, but without Success: here being no trade stirring at present, neither has Mr. Denton, who I intended should have paid you in London any money of Mr Blackett’s at this time in his hands, so must desire your Lordsp will order your Steward at Durham to call upon me for the money, which will be no more than 255l.16s.4d after deduction of the land tax, for Mr Dover is mistaken as t
To Wm Corbett. Ravensworth Castle January the 19th 1743/4
Sir
In Answer to your Letter of the 8th of December last relating to Peatstack Hill being Advertized we have Inclos’d Sent you an Advertizement agreeable to the Moor masters Report at Christmas last ; in which you will be pleased to observe Peatstackhill is not Comprehended not having yett been given up by the Execrs of Geo Liddell Esq and Partners. We would have sent this Advertismt Sooner but waited
To Mr Richd Peck & Mr Amos Barnes Ravensworth Castle April 12th 1744
Gentlemen
We are Commanded by the Directors of His Majestys Royal Hospitall for Seamen at Greenwich to call into our assistance proper persons Skilled in Winning & working of Colliery, to Inspect & view the Colliery called Scremerston in order to discover whether the winning of Scremerston Colliery might not have been done at such a Distance and in such a manner as to have effectually prevented the
To William Corbett Esq Ravensworth Castle April 20 1744
Sir
In Answer to yours of the 16th Inst we will take care to Insert the Clause in the Newcastle Papers for letting Woodall Mills, but as the law does not oblige us to Advertize the Lead Ore dues for Six Months we Intend it to be a Separate advertizement not only on that Acct but as they ought to be Sold and remov’d off the Premises this Summer which cannot be if you Limitt the time of Sale to the 17 October next & C
A SURVEY OR VIEW of Scremerston & Berwick hill Collierys made the 16th April 1744 By Orders of Messrs Walton & Hugh Boag by us Richard Peck & Amos Barnes Viz:
We this day descended the first Coale pitt in Scremerston Liberty & there viewed such of the open workings as are adjoining to the water Levell the Coale being all wrought in that pit which can be got to the rise within the Inscribed Pricked Line Square on the map A & found the water Levell secure & a Drift dro
To Willm Corbett Esq. Ravensworth Castle April 22nd 1744
Sir
In obedience to the Boards Commands we went to Scremerston and viewed the Colliery there the 16th Inst above ground as Mr Peck & Mr Barnes did below, whose report of the 21st Inst we send you here together with a Coppy of our Letter to them, as their Government, by which report we doubt not but the Board will see the Injustice of the Charge, as to any Fraudulent practices or Injuries do
To Mr Thomas Westgarth at the Riding in Alondale
Hond Master
According to Your Order, I have consulted with my Father about my going into Scotland, which he thinks will not do well, for he finds himself being but in an Indefferent State of Health, not able, with my Brother, to work about 2 tests (to wit, 6 or 7 Fothers) in the week - - - far Short of what you will have made here, wch in all likelyhood, (as I suppose you don’t intend the Lithurage Shall any more hinder the Ore-Smelting)
To Mr Wood. Ravensworth Castle May 4. 1744
Sir
Notwithstanding we have a pretty Large Ballance in our hands Bills are so very scarce that we cannot make you remittances as fast as we Intended. I have prevailed upon the Lead Companys Agent to give me a Bill which I send you Inclosed amounting to £1262:10:1 1/2 dated the 1st Inst payb. 30 days after date to Mr Boag & me wch pray Acknowledge the Recet of on Acct of the Rents & Profits of the Derwe
To Mr William Corbett Esq. Ravensworth Castle May 25th 1744
Sir
We reced yours of the 16th of May Inst with the Boards minutes of that date, which we duly observe, & in answer to that part which relate to the sending of Coales, we are afraid it will this year be attended with difficulty as Fraights are high. We will however doe the best we can and send ‘em at such distances of time as to prevent Damage And we begg leave to return the Board than
To Mr Ja Wood Ravensworth Castle May 29th 1744
Dear Sir
Bills are not to be gott in this part, payable in London, or you wou’d have had remittances ‘ere this for the Ballances in our hands & had we not this opportunity of making free with Sir Hen Liddells agent, what we have now remitted must have come by the Carryer as we believe the rest must come in order to Clear our hands of Cash, at the end of next month, when our years Ends. You have above a Bill on Mr Skut
To Mr William Corbett Esq. Ravensworth Castle June 22nd 1744
at the Navy Office
Sir
We reced yours of the 13th June with the Boards Minutes of that date & Inclosed we send you our Cash Acct for last Month the Ballance whereof is £1424.11.8 1/2 then in our hands. Since which we have sent Mr Wood One bill for £500 and this day three More for £760 -10 that now the Ballance in our hands is very Small & we are
Sir your most Obed Servts
Nicho
To Wm Corbett Esq. Ravensworth Castle June 26th 1744
Sir
We would have answered your commands of the 7th of June sooner but that the enquiry you were pleased to make required time to be informed as to some of the Particulars,
The Timber upon the Derwentwater Estates lyes in an Average about 16 miles from the navigable part of the Rivers side. That in Northumberland from the River Tyne & that in Cumberland from the Ryver Derwent near Wor
To Mr Ridley. Ravensworth Castle June 26th 1744
Sir
In answer to yours we have had no Acct how the biddings for the Derwentwater woods goe on nor how there of some considerable time been any offers made to us, whatever orders have come to us have been communicated to the Board of Directors for Greenwich Hospitall & when any others come they shall be communicated by Sir, Y etc
Nichos Walton Hugh Boag
had him on Monday last at Carnwath Fair, but had not any Chapmon for him – I receiv’d also with your Letter by Jack Robson, Blackmore’s Creation, for which, and your Lines of the French War, I give you many thanks, and desires you will continue the latter as largely as you can in your next, for as soon as I see what number of verses it contains, I shall collect it from your Letters, and write it in my Print Hand, it being very well worth my while – The Book I shall read, and let my Frien
To John Mulcaster Junior. At Acton in Derwent. To the Care of John Teasdale
Dear Brother
This comes, hoping to find you in good health, as, thanks to God, I arriv’d here on the 4th Instant – The Wether, I understand, has not been less turbulent here than wth us; Scarse any thing having been done in the Mine Since I came away, because of ye great Rains that have faln; so that for any thing that, as yet, I See, I Shall have done a good while sooner than I expected wn I left you – ther
To James Mulcaster. At Wanlochead in North=Britain. By Way of Edinburgh and Lead=hills.
Dear Brother Sunday October 14.
This comes, hoping to find you in Health, as thanks to Heaven, we are at present – Your’s I receiv’d but just now. – I don’t doubt but you have got mine of the 30th of Sept. So can only inform you in this; that I will meet you at Carlisle as you desire; So you may in Your next direct me when and where to meet you, and I desire that you would
To Willm. Corbett Esq. Ravensworth Castle Novem. 23rd 1744
Sir
Mr Anesley of Hexham has sent us a State of some Claims he has upon the Derwentwater Estate, which he has desired us to Transmitt to you & accordingly we send you his case herein. In regards to the Tyths of Dinnetley we have allways understood it pays no Tyth & have been Inform’d when Mr Aynsley was the farmer he paid no Tyth to Mr Benjamin Carr altho’ he setts forth now that he did pay T
To Mr Radley Ravensworth Castle February 22nd 1744/45
Sir
In Answer to your Letter relating Mr John Aynsleys Claim of Tyths for Dinnetley as part of Elrington; we have made Enquiry and that Dinnetley is not part of Ellrington & that no Tyths have ever been pay’d or demanded, till Mr Aynsley settt up his Claim. That Dinnetley is part of Langley Quarter, lying on the South Side of Tyne and part of Langley Barony which together pay a Modus in lieu of Corne Tyths to Mr Blac