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Letter – Henry Richmond to Thomas Hill – 20 Jun 1769
To Mr Thos Hill at Blackwell near Darlington Newca[stle] 20 June 1769
Sir
Sr Wr Blackett bids me give his Comp[limen]ts to you & that he will be obliged to you if you can send him a dozen of Hams & half a doz of Hogs Cheeks. What you send him are better than any he can meet with here w[hi]ch occasions this trouble – the payment for them may be made by Mr Darwin or by any other means you please. I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 20 Jun 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 20th June 1769
Dear Sir
We have consulted together about your Proposal of taking the Hospitals Silver in proportion to the Refiners Price or at the Market Price and agree that you take it in proportion to the Refiners Price as it shall happen to be the day it is delivered at your House in London you paying the Carriage (which we believe for the future we can leave to pay on delivery) or you repaying us the Carriage when we find it necessary so to d
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 20 Jun 1769
To Mr Mulcaster Farnacres 20th June 1769
Sir
As you inform us that Duke Forest did not yet get well away with the Litharge Slag and Test Bottoms so as to be ordered back to the Ore Hearth we think it will be proper for you to apply in our Names to Mr Tweddell to see if he can lend us a Man or two to dispatch this Business in the doing of which you will be plea
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Richmond – 21 Jun 1769
To Mr John Richmond Attorney at Law Newca[stle] 21st June 1769
Dear Bro[the]r
I wish you would send by the Bearer, or as soon as you can, the Copy of the bill and Answer and the decretal Order and also the decree against the offenders against Hexham Mills, which you have and which Sir Walter has been asking for this Morning. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 23 Jun 1769
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s Hexham Newca[stle] 23 June 1769
Sir
Sir Walter Blackett has ordered a Bill in Chancery to be filed against Matthew Fairlamb for using a Steel Mill to grind his Malt with: which you may tell him, that if he chuses to submit & pay something by way of satisfaction for what is past, & discontinue using his Mill for the future a stop may be put to the proceeding against him. But if he does not to this within
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 25 Jun 1769
To Sir Wr Blackett Baro[ne]t at Wallington Newca[stle] 25th June 1769
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
Inclosed are two proposals, which Mr Bell has received, for a Lease for five Years of the corn and hay tithe of Hexham Common one for £95 a year, with Allowance for Taxes; and the other for £91 a year neat: which he thinks, as the Taxes will be above £4 a Year, is the better proposal. If he has published Sufficiently the letting these Tithes for five years, and thi
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 26 Jun 1769
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 26 June 1769
Sir
The Bishop of Durham is patron of the vicarage of Hartburn. What you mention about the Grant of 6 James 1st whereby the Rectory et Decimas garbarum passed to the parson under whom the Com[missione]rs of Greenwich hospital claim I think is of Consequence and ought to be stated fully in the Case. A Rectory, I suppose, may consist of Glebe and Tithes; or it may not have either, b
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 30 Jun 1769
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths
In Foster Lane London Newca[stle] 30th June 1769
Gent[leme]n
I have this day sent you by Matt Lee the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver cont[ainin]g six hundred & sixty two ounces w[hi]ch I desire you will place to acco[un]t with Sr Walter Blackett Bt at the market price and advise me of the Receipt of I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to George Douglas – 2 Jul 1769
To Mr Geo Douglass at Berwick upon Tweed Newca[stle] 2d July 1769
Sir
I propose being at Tweedmouth on Monday Evening the 10th instant at Mrs Humphery’s & desire you will acquaint the Tenants that on Wednesday Afternoon I shall be ready to receive their rents I am etc HR
ps You may possibly see me on Sunday Evening but still the Rent day will be on Wednesday.
Letter – Henry Richmond to Collingwood Forster – 3 Jul 1769
To Coll. Forster Esq in Alnwick Newca[stle] 3d July 1769
Sir
Inclosed I send you by Sir Walter Blackett’s direction a Copy of the intended Bill for the preservation of the Salmon fisheries in the Tweed, which he desires you will peruse.
I shall wait upon you on Sunday next between 11 & 12 o’Clock in my Way to Berwick that Evening & in the mean time any Remarks that you may make upon the Bill you will please to reduce
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 7 Jul 1769
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 7th July 1769
Sir
I rec[eiv]ed your Letter inclosing the Case about the tithes of Wallington, which I think is well stated and Contains all the Facts we can Collect. As to the queries and Notes you have made in the Margin of the 2d sheet. I answer 1st that Isaac Johnson was Curate to the Vicar and usually employed by him in Collecting the Tith[e]s and giving Receipts. 2dly that the payment of
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 7 Jul 1769
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres. 7th July 1769
Your Letter of the 12th instant now lies before me and in answer thereto I desire to receive the Silver as soon after it is taken off as it is convenient and all in one Piece. With regard to the Furnaces as they are to be done with Stone I beg the greatest care may be taken in tempering them for if the Fire is not increased very gradually and gently I am sure the Stone will fly in Pieces. We call this Operation annealing? the Furnaces. I
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 7 Jul 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres. July 7th 1769
Dear Sir
Your favor of the 1st instant came in due course and the contents are observed.
As I think it will be quite right by way of keeping the Accounts distinct, not to draw for the Value of the two dirtied Pieces til it is known what they lose in melting I shall defer sending you a Bill for their Value til I hear again from you but as to the large Piece 328 Ounces and 5 Dwts I have this day Drawn upon you for its Value at
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 9 Jul 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 9th July 1769
Dear Sir
In my Letter of the 7th instant I omitted desiring you would get the Note for the Beam and Scales made out in the Name of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and I therefore give you this further trouble and beg youll be so kind as observe the inclosed Form and that you will send the Recet at the same time, as you write me how the dirtied Pieces of Silver turn out. I would have the Beam and Chains put up in a Box but as
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 14 Jul 1769
To Sir Wr Blackett Bt at Wallington Newca[stle] 14th July 1769
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
Most of the proprietors of Fisheries below Norham, or their Agents, were at the meeting on Wednesday: but little was done save the agreeing upon a Close time from the 10th Octor to the 10 Janry and fixing another Meeting on Wednesday the 16 of August at Cornhill.
Lord Hume Mr Blake & Mr Carr Agent for the Duke of Roxburgh obstructed the business of the day
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Horn – 15 Jul 1769
To Mr John Horn at Mr Jas Bencrofts in the New Street Leeds Newca[stle] 15th July 1769
Sir
I received your Letter and am sorry you should have so much trouble, as you Complain of, about getting your money from the people you send for it. The last Sum was paid to Mr John Foster, the Leeds Carrier, who I dare say will not detain the money from You. I do not know of any better Way of conveying the Money to you. if you should think of any, I shall be very glad of it. P.S. If you have
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 18 Jul 1769
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s in Hexham Newca[stle] 18th July 1769
Sir
I desire your opinion, by the return of the post, whether Sir Walter is interested in the Event of the Suit between General Clavering and Ld Crews Trustees: so far interested as that it would be right not to allow Mr Fawcett (who has a general Retainer from Sir Walter, but has taken a fee in the Cause against Genl Clavering) to be Council for the Trustees. You may give me such
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 18 Jul 1769
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 18th July 1769
Sir
The Bishop of Durham is patron of the Vicarage of Hartburn.
Sir Walter has got 12 hams and 6 heads of Mr Hill for which I hope you will have some opportunity of paying him.
Inclosed I send you Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Glyn & Hallifax for one hundred and Sixty five pounds; which I send you on acco[un]t of the quarterly payments you are to make for Sir Walter Blac
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 18 Jul 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 18th July 1769
Dear Sir
I have this day drawn upon you for £49 15.4 being in full for 189 ounces 11 dwt of silver at 5s/11 1/2d p ounce after deducting therefrom Six pounds fourteen shillings which you have disbursed for the Scales; and as the quality of the dirtied silver appears not to be so good as the other, on that Account, tho’ you desire me to draw as before, I have made up the present Bill payable Thirty days after Date.
My part
Letters – Thomas Wentworth to John Wentworth – 20 Jul 1769
Bretton, July 20th 1769
Dear Sir
William Lambert, the Bearer, a Farmer served seven years apprentiship [sic] near here, & follow’d the business for himself eleven years at York, aged 32 of a good constitution, and understands all the business of farming and will be glad to submit to any direction or order you shall think proper to give he is desirous of seeing a foreign country and would be glad to settle if possible, Mr Prince, who perhaps you may remember to have seen h
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 24 Jul 1769
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 24th July 1769
Sir
Sir Walter cannot find the plan of that part of Weardale & Middleton Boundary that lies near Langtihead Leadmine; on which a Memorandum was made last Winter by Ld Darlington and him settling the dispute about that Grove. He therefore bids me enquire whether he left it with you and if so desires it may be send down by the Fly directed to me.
The Candles you were so good
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 28 Jul 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 28th July 1769
Dear Sir
By this Weeks London Carrier I have sent directed to you a Box containing 606 Ounces 5Dwts of Bullion which will I hope arrive Safe on Saturday the 12th of next Month at which time I shall be glad to hear from you. I am
Sir your most Obed. Hble Servt.
N. Walton Junr.
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 29 Jul 1769
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s in Hexham Newca[stle] 29 July 1769
Sir
I did not want any Thing particular with you on Wednesday, so did not send after you. You did very well to attend the Tryal between Genl Clavering and Lord Crews Trustees about the right of Com[m]on on the parcel of Ground called the Middle; and I am glad to find by your Letter that the Bounder of the Manor did not come at all in question, agreeable to what you wrote me of the
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 29 Jul 1769
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths in Foster Lane London Newca[stle] 29th July 1769
Gentlemen
Inclosed herewith are two parts of your Acco[un]t with Sir Walter Blackett; one of which is signed by me; the other, if you find right, you will please to sign & return to etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 1 Aug 1769
To Mr Darwin London NewCa[stle] 1st Augst 1769
Sir
Inclosed I return you the duplicate of your Acco[un]t signed by me. I wish you a good journey hither & assure you I shall be very glad to see you. In the mean time I am etc HR
