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Letter – Henry Richmond to George Douglas – 8 May 1770
To Mr Geo. Douglass Newcas. 8 May 1770
in Berwick on Tweed
Sir As Mr John Bell, on his return from Berwick told me you could not pay him the £100 for the year’s rent for the Unthank Colliery due Janry last, but promised to send it me in Newcastle bank notes in a months time, I did expect to have heard from you. As I have not, I give you the trouble of this Letter to beg you will remit me that Sum without delay, as I
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Sharp – 9 May 1770
To The Revd. Dr. Sharp at Hartburne Newcas. 9 May 1770
near Morpeth
Sir I have a letter from Sir Wr. Blackett ordering me to pay you one hundred pounds tow[ard]s the Augmentation of the Chapel of Falstone; wch I shall be ready to do whenever you please to call or send for it. if the latter you will please to send a proper receipt, mentioning that you have reced the money of Sir Wr. Blackett by my hands, I have also Sir Wrs ord
Letter – Henry Richmond to Mary Jurin – 12 May 1770
To Mrs Jurin at Mr Simpson’s Newcas. 12 May 1770
at Bradley
Madam Your Tenant brought me the Favour of your Letter yesterday; but I could not enter into Treaty with him abot. the Boats, till some agreement is made between Sir Walter Blackett and you about the Materials of them. I think the sooner this is done the better, and I shall be ready to treat with you or any you please to appoint, about them.
I shall speak
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 13 May 1770
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas. 13 May 1770
Sir Tho’ it may be an advantage to the Country to have the pay made before Stagshaw Bank fair as you propose yet I cannot agree to fix a day for the pay before I have the Acct. brought in and therefore desire you will not raise any expectation of a pay against that time. Get the Accounts ready as soon as you can and then I will consider after I have looked over them when I can make the pay.
We
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 14 May 1770
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas. 14 May 1770
Sir Mr Saint has been with me today about a Book of Blank tickets wch you have sent him directions to print for the Rookhope Lead Carriage but wch he wants an Explanation of - As you said nothing to me I cod not say anything to him. So the Matter is suspended till we see one another & have the Nature of such a Measure better discussed than it has yet been. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 15 May 1770
To Mr John Bell at Hexham Newcas. 15 May 1770
Sir I write to you by Mr Simpson’s desire whom I have seen today, & who says that tho Mrs Jurin did at first suppose she had a Right to the Boats & Rope etc yet she now does not claim them, but allows that they are included in Sir Walter Blacketts purchase. For he says he has satisfied her that in the treaty he had with Sir Wr. abo[u]t, the Boat & Boatrake all the property she had in t
Letter – Henry Richmond to Matthew Reynaldson – 15 May 1770
To Mr Mw. Reynaldson at Blaydon Newcas. 15 May 1770
Sir I desired you to let me know every week what Lead you receive, but you have not sent me an Acct. for the last week. You must either come to morrow or send me an Acct. that I may know what I have to sell. I am afraid we shall be behind everybody in the Lead Carriage this year so beg you will be as diligent in your part of that business as possible. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 16 May 1770
To Mr Wm. Alvey Darwin Newcas. 16 May 1770
Gray’s Inn London
Sir Inclosed I send you Bell Cookson & Cos. bill on Glyn & Hallifax for four hundred pounds payable at 20 d[ays] from 11 inst. Sir Wr Blackett bid me send you a bill for this Sum in May to enable you to discharge some tradesmens bills that he left unpaid. So you will please to place the same to his Credt. in your Acct with him & send me a Receipt acco
Letter – Henry Richmond to Richard Wilson – 18 May 1770
To Richard Wilson Esq. at Leeds Newcas. 18 May 1770
Yorkshire
Sir Mr King tells me he has wrote you that he cannot conveniently pay his rent at this time, & that he has proposed paying you interest as usual, for the forbearance: So I thought it best to remit you your three hundred pounds on Acct. of the Rents I have received: & accordingly have sent you inclosed Bell Cookson & Cos. bill on Glyn & Hallifax f
Letter – Henry Richmond to Revd Oliphant – 22 May 1770
To The Rev. Mr Oliphant at Rothbury Newcas. 22nd May 1770
Sir I have Sir Walter Blacketts Order to pay two Apprentices fees of Thirty pounds each for two of your Sons. But as he expressly orders me to take Care that the Money is applyed to That use only you must not expect I can pay it until the Masters of the Boys come with you to receive it & bring the Indentures along with them. I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Jonathan Hilton – 22 May 1770
To Mr Jonat. Hilton. Farnacres 22nd May 1770
Sir,
Soon after the application of the Lessees of Lead Mines in Alston Moor for the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to contribute towards the making of Roads for Carriage of the Lead Ore from the Mines we wrote the Secretary of Greenwich Hospt and have the pleasure to inform you that the Board have been pleased to impower us to contribute Fifty Pounds towards the Expense of the Ore Carriage Roads within the Ma
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Smeaton – 23 May 1770
Part of Mr Walton Junrs Letter of 23rd May 1770 to Mr Smeaton.
I have agreed for a Lease of a Cellar or Warehouse in Sandgate for Fourteen Years and you are joint with me; we are to be free on twelve Months Notice. It is for lodging the Lead in and will I dare say hold any Quantity we shall ever have occasion to put into it. The Rent is £8.8 p Annum and a Person constantly on the Spot of whom it is taken will keep an Account of the Lead brought in by the Carriers from time to time
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 23 May 1770
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 23rd May 1770
Dear Sir
Your Letter of the 12th Instant I was favoured with on my return from a little Journey I had been taking Northward.
I have this day Drawn upon you for £142.2.9 Payable as usual Ten days after date Particulars as follows:
474 Ounces of Silver Bullion at 6s - 1/2d £143.3.9
Deduct a Miners Compass 1.1
£142.2.9
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 23 May 1770
To Sir Walter Blackett Bart. at Messrs Hope Newcas. 23 May 1770
& Compy in Amsterdam
Honrd Sir Your Letter from Brussels came in six days, & I was glad to find by it that you were better. It is Opportunity rather than Occasion that prompts me to write now: for nothing material has happened since my Last. Our patriots indeed have sent a Remonstrance in haste to the Throne; which is but a poor production and signed only as the Instru
Letter – Henry Richmond to Christopher Johnson – 24 May 1770
To Mr Chrisr. Johnson Attorney at law Newcas. 24 May 1770
in Durham
Sir Inclosed I send you, according to your desire, a Copy of the Deputation to take the Surrenders of Sir Walter Blackett and myself to Mr Ward; & also Copy of those Surrenders from us to him; and shall be very glad to see you on Monday as you propose. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 29 May 1770
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas. 29 May 1770
Sir I have received your Accts. this morning and have fixed your pay to be on Thursday Se’night, the seventh of June. So you will give notice accordingly at Stagshaw and on Sunday; & will be here on Monday Evening, receive your money on Tuesday, go home on Wednesday, and pay it away on Thursday. If you have any objection to the day I have fixed, you may alter it to any other you think more con
Letter – Henry Richmond to Matthew Reynaldson – 29 May 1770
To Mr Reynaldson at Blaydon Newcas. 29 May 1770
Sir I should be glad to know what you are a doing. I desired you to send me every week an Acct. of what Lead you have received and yet I am forced to write every Week for it - last Wednesday you said you expected to get all the Lead in that day or the day following and yet you have not made up your Tickets so that we cannot get a pay made tho’ all the Country is waiting for it.
Pray let me
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Smeaton – 1 Jun 1770
Part of. Mr Walton Junrs Letter of 1st June 1770 to Mr Smeaton.
Mr. Mulcaster writes me that the Stamp Mill cannot go when the Refinery is at Work it takes when the Work together more Water than will Work four pair of Bellows and the Troughs which carry the Water to the Refinery Wheel will not even contain so much Water as is necessary to Work the Stamp Mill and Refining bellows at one Time.
Letter – Henry Richmond to Revd Oliphant – 2 Jun 1770
To The Revd. Mr Oliphant at Rothbury Newcas 2 June 1770
Sir In answer to your Letter of the 29 ulto. I should be sorry to give any unnecessary trouble to you, or to the Masters of the Boys, about the payment of the Money ordered by Sir Walter Blackett for putting two of them out to Business: And therefore if Mr Storey cannot come to Newcastle for the Thirty pounds for your Elder Sons Apprentice fee, your shewing me the Indentures &
Letter – Henry Richmond to Mary Jurin – 2 Jun 1770
To Mrs Jurin at the Hermitage Newcas 2 June 1770
Madam Inclosed I return you the Letters of Attorney executed by Mr Colpitts this Morning. I have not made an affidavit of the Execution because I am told the Steward of the Court will not require it, as he knows my hand very well: but if it should be necessary I shall do it at any time. I hope the Surrenders will now be soon completed and that Mr Heron will write me when they are
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 2 Jun 1770
To Mr Darwin Grays Inn London Newcas. 2 June 1770
Sir I have received the Deed for the Purchase of Hexham Ferry Boat & Boat rake, by Mr <Burden>. & Mrs Jurin has sent me the Letters of Attorney which I have got Mr Colpitts to execute today, & shall, as she desires, return the same to her by tomorrows post, at the Hermitage, near Hexham so I conclude I shall hear soon that the Surrenders are made to Sir Wr. Blacket
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 3 Jun 1770
Mr. Mulcaster. Farnacres 3rd June 1770
Your letter of the 29th Ult I received on Friday last and in answer take the first opportunity of informing you that I think it will be most convenient in every respect to go in with the Unrefineable Ore til you see the contrary.
We have never had a right Tryal made of Old Cowslitts Ore whether it will refine or not, I suppose it will not but it will certa
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 8 Jun 1770
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres. 8th June 1770
I desire youll inform me as soon as you can how your Stock of Bone Ashes stands and how long you expect those you have will last til you ought to have new.
Tho' you may perhaps think we have not observed what you recommended as to the Dam in the hollow above the Mill, you may rest assured it is not forgot and will be considered the first time we see you. I
Letter – Henry Richmond to Christopher Johnson – 9 Jun 1770
To Mr Chrisr. Johnson at Durham Newcas. 9 June 1770
Sir I am sorry I was abroad when you sent your Servant to enquire after the Lease and Release from Sir Wr. Blackett, which you say is wanting - but I hope you will find them soon. however you did not leave them here, I assure you - I remember you asked your Son, as he was going out of my Office, if he had the Deeds. & he showed you one Bundle which you said was not what you mea
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 10 Jun 1770
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 10th June 1770
I have tryed the Assays, and the piece of Silver Answers exceedingly well to them, but this Cake, as well as the last, falls considerably Short in Quantity pFodder, compared with former Operations. We can however expect no more than the Lead itself will afford, and as the Quantity of Silver answers the Assays we must rest assured that the Work has been properly done.
I thi
