Mr Willm. Alvey Darwin London Newcas. 22 April 1775
Sir I received your Letter of the 11th inclosing Mr. Wilkinsons receipt for £7 . 10s . 0 on Account of his Expenses coming down & returning to London. Your Account with the other Vouchers relating to the Election I have examined & find right Inclosed you have Messrs. Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Castell Whateley & Powell for Three hundred and forty two Pou
Mr Darwin No 47 Hatton Street London Newcas 24 April 1775
Sir
Inclosed I return you your several Queries with Answers thereto in order to form an Addition to the Case concerning the Inclosure upon the Waste of the Manor of Hexham at Nubbuck & hope it will be satisfactory - A ship is come in here with a Box & a Case directed to Sir Walter Blackett which I suppose will prove the Scales Weights & Measures for Hexham but they are not
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr Lavie 25th Apr 1775
Sir,
In your Letter of 17th Feby last you mentioned that if I could Borrow the Money wanted to complete the Pays &ca at 5 p Cent till April when you would be in the Country it would oblige you in Consequence of which I did borrow it & as the Time of Payment now draws near I send this to know if you still retain the same determination of paying that Money out of the Rents my Reason for making this enquiry is that I beleive I can hav
Cornelis Joseph Osy Esqr Newcas 26th April 1775
at Rotterdam
Sir
By the direction of Sir Wr Blackett I have shipt this day in the Love & Unity - Captn Joseph Mack a hogshead of Ale directed for you to the Care of Messrs Pieter Dander Hoeven & Co - It is intended as a present to Mr Cornelisson at Antwerp to whom you will please to forward - it is inclosed in a Case with Saw dust between the Outer and Inner Casks
Thorpe Lee
27th Apr 1775
Dear Brother
We are now all dispers'd again; My Mother at Warwick, Bro. Will at Plymouth, Harry upon the road to you, My Son at Oxford, My Daughter in Town: & we here; we left Town on Monday last, & altho it was the 24th Aprl there, we found it the middle of June here; I rode out yesterday upon the heath, found it so hot I was glad to return again soon; This day too is very hot but wth more wind; Thermometer at 67. If we have not rain soon there
Jno. Ibbetson Esq. Farnacres 28th April 1775
Sir
Inclosed you will receive a Computation of the Expence of Buildings etc in addition to the Smelting Mill and Conveniences at Langley Castle Pasture, on acct of the increased produce from the Lead Mines in the Manor of Alston moor amount to the Sum of £229.4.3 1/2. In Mr Walton's Letter of the 17th Ult it was suggested that an addition of two Hearths would be necessary; but on considering t
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 28 April 1775
We have reced your Letter of the 26th and in answer, think you should agree with W Pattison at 1 3/4 <d> P F<n>.
It gives us pleasure to hear the Buildings are going on so well and we inclose you Plans for the new Mill House etc and directions and measures thereon and desire you will tell Mr Labourne that we wish every thing to be got as fast forward as possible and beg the Lime may be well w
Mr Holmes. Farnacres 28th April 1775
Dear Sir
We reced the favor of yours of the 22nd isn't yesterday and we are much obliged by your information concerning the Holly we apprehend therefrom, that there is room to make an adventure by sending a part of it to London and shall be further obliged by accepting your offer in Brokering it for us; it may probably be some Weeks before we can get it sorted and sent to Newcastle but
Mr Ralph Heron Attorney at Law Newcas 28th April 1775
In Hexham
Sir
The Weights & Measures which were ordered by Sir Walter Blackett for the Court at Hexham near four Years ago are now come & in his Office here - I shall send them to you as soon as I know you are at Home or you will please to order the Carrier to call for them. I shod be glad to know, when you open the Boxes, what they contain as I have not unpack
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 5th May 1775
We think if you can make it convenient, when you are short of Water, it will be best to lay off the Slag Hearth; as those Bellows, we judge, take as much power as any two of the others, and not only that, but oblige the rest to Work to a disadvantage, by their not making full Strokes; the rule is, you see, when the Slag Hearth is on to take up, til it will do its business at 18 Kams P Min an
Dukesfd. 5th. May 1775
Mr. Robt. Allgood Allanhds
Sr.
The Ore that we are receiving f’m your Place is badly dressed & wants Weight both wch. faults I beg you’ll remedy for the future. I was in hopes (fm what you promised me) that we should not have any cause for complaint of your Ore after you got quit of the Over year Ore, wch. I suppose you have don some time ago & whats coming now is worse if worse can be than what we received a month ago. I am yrs. &am
To Mr Maylin No 113 in the Minories London Farnacres 6 May 1775
Sir.
We have this day reced yours of the 3rd inst and you are very right in the dimensions, only you mention one circumstance which we think you have apprehended wrong, you say ‘Pipe to drop a little on the lower side’, now the Pipe is to drop a little on the upper side in order to throw the blast downwards, the bore is to be round, or nearly so, being for Smelting Bellows.
Since the Year 1766 we have got
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London NCastle 6th May 1775
Gentm
I sent you yesterday by Francis Ridley the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver containing 884 Ounces which I desire you will place to Accot with Sir Walter Blackett as usual at the market Price and advise me on your receipt of it I am etc HR
To Mrs Mary Lorrain Hexham Bladon My 6th 1775
Madam
I wrote to Mr Marshall some Time ago & Inclosed a Bill on you for £11 16s 5d due to Mr Staniland desiring Ansr but, not Hearing, nor receiving and ansr since Mr Staniland this Week desired me to Write you again, and would be glad to know from you when it will be convenient for you to make or Order the payment
I am Madam your most Obligd Hble Servt
Henry Fleck
To Mrs Loraine In Hexham
Nunwick May 9th 1775
Madam
I received the favour of Yours of the 6th, as I have Advertised Colt Park Estate to be sold, the Purchaser cannot enter before Old Martinmas, so we must make it the week after, to pay you that Money, Therefore on the 27th or 28th of November, you may depend upon your Money being paid you. I am,
Madam Your most Obedient Humble Servant
L Allgood
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 9th May 1775
We understand that some of the Carriers West of Hexham have got great quantities of Lead in hand particularly Forster of Yarridge and we therefore desire you will give the whole notice, that unless they get their Lead carried to Hexham, Newcastle or Newburn, and with all possible expedition, we shall give orders for other Carriers to take it from them, and never employ them more as Carriers. We are
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 11th May 1775
In answer to your Letter of the 8th I still we take the first opportunity of acquainting you that we approve of what you propose as to the Smelting of the Slags and paying the Slag Smelters on Account, til all their work belonging the last years Ore is finished.
The Silver weighed 769 1/2 Ounces.
We are glad to hear you have got on so well at Langley Mill with the Buildings.
I
To Mr Holmes. Farnacres 12th May 1775
Dear Sir
By last Saturdays London Carrier we sent you a Box containing 769 1/2 Ounces of Fine Silver which doubt not you will receive on Saturday Sennt.
We are much obliged to you for your services respecting the Bellows as well as the Holly etc. We have wrote to Mr Maylin in further explanation of some matters in which he seemed likely to be the better for further information. We
Mr George Selby - Attorney at Law In Alnwick Newcas 15th May 1775
Sir
I received your Letter that Mr Selby is desirous of having the Lease of Unthank Colliery delivered him which he certainly should have had before this if Sir Wr Blackett had obtained the Arrears due from the Tenants of the Colliery & which he cannot yet prosecute them for without the help of this Lease. We have got half of the Debt & as soon as w
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 16th May 1775
In my last I forgot to mention that a disappointment had been met with us as to the Charcoal which was intended to have been delivered to you at Langley Mill for the purpose of the Trials to Reduce with it and I therefore now write to desire John Turnbull may be sent into the Hag Bank to examine whether we cannot get as much Wood of the proper kind for Charcoal from the Tops of what we have felled suc
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 19th May 1775
I have reced. your Letter of the 18th and with regard to the Charcoal, can give no directions what is to be done either with regard to Cording or preparing the Wood for Coaling. I suppose the Workman who we get to burn it for us will be the best judge of that. I would not have more than one Pit burnt, til we see how the experiments answer, nor would I wish to have any fresh Wood cut on any Account. Such part of
Mr Ralph Forster at Cambo Newcas 20th May 1775
Sir
Your Account for the Year 1773 which you were too late in bringing in last Year will be examined with the Vouchers & the duplicate signed & sent you as soon as my present hurry of business is over: only I must beg you will let me have your last Years Accot in a fortnights time; either with or without the Vouchers, for the present - the balance of your Account for 1773
Dukesfd. 21st. May 1775
Mr. Richmond N.Castle
Inclosed have sent you the Month Accots. for the three Mills, & a copy of the charge of fetching the Money for the Pay as you desird.
One of our Refiners has been ill so that you’ll not get the two Plates of Silver so soon as might be expected, but I expect he’ll be able to go to his Work to morrow. The Ore Carriers are standing out for an advance of Price for this Mill fm Coalcleugh & Allanhds Mines the Qua
Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas 26 May 1775
to be left at Mr Pearsons – Surgeon in Hexham
Sir
I am sorry your Ore Carriers from Coalcleugh & Allanheads are so difficult to deal with this Year - It will be wrong to lose much time in treating with them as there is so much Ore lying at the several Mines I see no other Way but for you to make as good a Bargain as you can with them either by promising them a Pay in Oc
One Pair of Smelting Bellows Shipped on Board the Success Geo. Robinson Master for Newcastle 20th May 1775.
Mark W& S To the care of Mr Airey of Newcastle
Messrs Walton & Smeaton's Compliments to Mr Airey, and send him the above to inform him of a pair of Bellows being Shipped for Langley Mill; which they desire he will be so obliging as make immediate enquiry about, and as soon as they arrive, to get them carefully put in to the Warehouse and