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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Daniel Alder – 12 Jun 1781
Daniel Alder Esqr at Adderstone Newcas 12th June 1781
near Belford North
Sir
I am inform’d by Sir Thomas Blacketts Agent in Weardale that you proposed making the Partnership Pay the 20th instant.
I think it necessary to acquaint you that I shall not advance any Money for that Purpose on Sir Thomas Blacketts Account untill his Demand & the Executors of the late Sir Wr Blacketts Demand on the Estate & Effect
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 24 Jun 1781
J.E.Blackett Esqr. Newcastle Dukesf[iel]d 24th June 1781
Sir,
I find by my Broth[e]r that there’s to be a meeting of the Trustees of the Toll
Road at Corbridge on Wednesday next to Confer w[i]th the Lead Owners & less on the Toll upon Lime & Coals – have measured what S[i]r Tho[ma]s B[lackett]’s Lead can go upon the Branch at the Lead Hall (to go by Apperley Lane) to 42 Y[ar]ds above a Q[uarte]r of a Mile, f[ro]m Stella- Path to the Yard at Blaydon (& Mr Mulcaster i
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 28 Jun 1781
J.E.Blackett Esqr. Newcastle Dukesf[iel]d 28th June 1781
Sir,
I attended the Turnpike meeting at Corbridge yesterday, the Lead Co[mpany] & Mr W. Errington’s people agreed w[i]th the Trustees at 2d p[er] Fother between Lady day & Mart[inma]s and at full Toll the other part of the Y[ea]r. I offered to comp[oun]d for Sir
Thos B’s Lead by the Y[ea]r they asked 35£ but did not choose to treat by by the Fother as they had don so with the other proprietors of Lead - there was a
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 28 Jun 1781
Mr Holmes. Farnacres 28th June 1781
Dear Sir
We have reced yours of the 16th inst and this day have drawn upon you for £215-10d being the amount of 782 Ounces of fine Silver at 6s/-3/4d P Ounce after deducting £22 which you are desired to pay Richd Probert who will call upon you on Monday or Tuesday
We are exceedingly concerned on Account of the unfortunate accident to the Hinchenbrook and the great loss Captain Maxwell must have sustained
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Richard Probert – 28 Jun 1781
Farnacres near Gateshead
Mr Probert. 28 June 1781
We have this day wrote to Mr Holmes desiring he will be so obliging as Pay you for the 50 Casks of Bone Ashes sent on Board the Peggy Captain Michelmas the 2d inst. We have acquainted Mr Holmes you will call upon him which you are desired to do on Monday or Tuesday. We are
Your Humble Servants
Walton & Turner
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 29 Jun 1781
Mssrs Peter & James Mulcaster. Farnacres 29 June 1781
We have had an application for 25 Tons of Grey Slag for the new undertaking at Bell's Close which we have promised to let them have by way of Tryal and they will after the Tryal make us an offer. You are therefore desired to acquaint us in what time we could let them have 25 Tons without laying off our Slag Hearth Men and also what it will cost P Ton for carriage of the Slags from Langley Mill to Bell&#
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 29 Jun 1781
Sir Thomas Blackett Barot Newcas 29th June 1781
Bretton Yorkshire
Dear Sir
Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs Bell Cookson & Co on Castell & Co of this date payable at 20d date for Five Hundred Pounds, the Receipt of which you will please to acknowledge.
I have lately sold about 5000 ps Lead, the Common at £14.17s.6d the refined at £15.2s.6d p Fother. I now ask £15.5s.0d for Refined.
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 30 Jun 1781
Mr Thomas Wall Paper Buildings Newcas 30th June 1781
Temple London
Sir Inclosed herewith you will receive Messrs. Bell & Cos Bill on Messrs. Castell & Co for Two Hundred Pounds at Twenty five Days to make the Quarterly Payments on Sir John Trevelyans Account from 30th June to 30th Sept. next which Bill you will please to advise me on your Receipt of I am etc J E B.
£200 . 0 . 0
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 30 Jun 1781
Farnacres 30th June 1781
Dear Sir
I send this to acquaint you that this day we have sent you by the London Carrier a Box containing 683 1/2 Ounces of Bullion.
We are Dear Sir Your Humble Servants
Walton & Turner
Mr Holmes
Letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 5 Jul 1781
J.E.Blackett Esqr. Newcastle Dukesf[iel]d 5th July 1781
Sir,
Herewith You’ll receive a Plate of Silver weighing 921 Ounces – Mr Salkeld’s illness prevent me sending the Acc[oun]ts of the Lead wrought but as he’s a good deal better to day, hope he’ll be able to get to the Mill in a day or two’s time so shall bring You that
Acco[un]t and the Month Acco[un]ts against the 9th when I shall be obliged to trouble you for Fifty Pound, as I have some small payments to make in this
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 7 Jul 1781
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Newcas 7th July 1781
Foster Lane London
Gentn
I have this day sent you by Robert Cave the London Carrier a Piece of fine Silver containing Nine Hundred & Twenty six Ounces which I desire you will place to account with Sir Thomas Blackett Barot as usual at the Markett Price & advise me on your Receipt of It.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Hollier – 8 Jul 1781
Mr Wm Hollier. Farnacres 8 July 1781.
Sir
On Enquiry we find the carriage of Slags to Bells Close will be 15/- or at the lowest 14s/6d P Ton. If after the Tryal you make, we can agree for such Quantity as we can annually spare you, we shall consider the Quantity which we send for the Tryal as a part, but in case your Prices do not agree after the Tryal, we must set such a price upon such Quantity as you get as not to lose by letting you have them.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Temperley – 13 Jul 1781
Thomas Temperley. Farnacres 13 July 1781
We have reced your of the 5th instant and certainly approve of you employing such persons as you think most likely to be serviceable to Greenwich Hospital in carrying forward the Works under your care and would by no means have that left to a Lottery.
We approve of your employing an additional Man at the Colliery but are not quite clear you acted properly when you applied to William Walker who was at
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 13 Jul 1781
Farnacres 13 July 1781
Mssrs Peter and James Mulcaster
We have reced yours of the 9th and 11th inst together with the Lime and Colliery Accounts which with those delivered by Mr Peter Mulcaster when here we expect takes in the whole from the Beginning not having yet had time to examine them. We observe what you say respecting the Business as to the Grey Slags and are obliged by your particular Attention to the Matter, but you
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Harvey – 17 Jul 1781
Dear Sir Farnacres 17 July 1781
I desire you will send by James Johnson on Friday 30 of your best & cleaned 1 1/2 Inch Deals to be directed to Mssrs Mulcaster at Langley Lead Mill and to be charged to the Commissioners and Governors of Greenwich Hospital for Langley Lead Mill. Send a Bill of Parcels wth them. I am
Your Humble Servant
Nich Walton Junr
Mr Thomas Harvey Junr
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 17 Jul 1781
Mssrs Peter & James Mulcaster. Farnacres 17 July 1781
We have reced your Letter of the 14th and approve of what you have done and propose as to the Slags and particularly that you shd try the difference of produce in weight of Slags from different kinds of Ore. We have ordered you 30 Deals. We are
Your Humble Servants
Walton & Turner
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Christopher Wilkinson – 26 Jul 1781
Dear Sir. Farnacres 26 July 1781
I desire you will send by James Johnson Hexham Carrier on Monday first
10 Barrs Square Iron rather better than 1 1/8Ins but not 1 1/4 Ins
3 Barrs Smallest Square Iron
3 Barrs Smallest Flat Iron
1 Bundle of Nail Rods
For Langley Lead Mill & to be directed to Messrs Mulcaster
1 Bundle of Nail Rods
For Stublick Colliery & to be directed to Mr Thos Temperley
Be so good as sen
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 26 Jul 1781
Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 26th July 1781
Dear Sir
I reced your Letter of the 14th inst just when I was setting out upon a Journey into Northumberland and therefore now take the first convenient opportunity of writing you in answer thereto. I have this day drawn upon you for £181-11 payable 30 days after date being for Balance of Account as below, and am much obliged to you for the trouble you have had in paying Mr Probert and getting & paying for th
Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Thomas Maughan – 26 Jul 1781
Mr Thomas Maughan at Newhouse Newcas 26th July 1781
in Weardale
Sir
Inclosed you will receive An Abstract of Lord Carlisles Admittances to his Estate near Stanhope which, from the Description, may enable you to say whether his Lordship is working the Leadmines in the freehold or Copyhold part of the Estate or in the Waste or some Encroachment or Inclosure taken from It. Mr Bell & you will correspond about this Business.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 27 Jul 1781
Mssrs Peter & James Mulcaster. Farnacres 27th July 1781
We have reced yours of the 19th & 26th inst and have ordered the Iron to come by James Johnson who will also bring the Nails Rods for the Mill & Stublick Colliery.
What you mention with regard to the Slags is duly observed as also what relates to the Reducing & shall be glad to know how the Tryals of both turn out. We think that after all the Furnace will be found the best way & we rat
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Temperley – 28 Jul 1781
Thomas Temperley Farnacres 28th July 1781
We have received your Letter of the 19th inst and approve of your going on in working, with the present Men till you see whether the demand after Hay Harvest will answer or not and we also approve of your lowering the Price of Cynders to 9d P Sack for the reasons you have given & desire you will acquaint the Agent at the Cupola immediate & make it as publick as you can only don't call it a
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Robert Child – 28 Jul 1781
Robt Child Esqr & Co Bankers Newcastle 28th July 1781
London
Gentn
Inclosed you will receive Messrs Bell Cookson & Cos Bill on Messrs Castell & Co for One Hundred & fifty seven Pounds ten Shillings at 25d dated 27th instant; being half a Yrs Composition for the Tythe Ore of Weardale Leadmines due to My Lord Bishop of Lincoln the 15th of next Month. You will please to Advise on your Receipt of this Bill &
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 30 Jul 1781
Mr John Holmes Farnacres 30th July 1781
Dear Sir
By the Carrier who set out from N.Castle on Saturday we sent you a Box containing 756 Ounces of Silver Bullion.
We are etc
Walton & Turner
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Temperley – 31 Jul 1781
Thomas Temperley Farnacres 31 July 1781
We have reced your Letter of the 29th & think it will not be worth while to try the Seam of Coal you have met with as it is so thin as 8 Inches.
Mr Bell certainly ought to fill up the Old Pits. Glad to hear all goes well on at the Collry.
When you write again upon half a Sheet let it be inclosed in a Blank Half Sheet & in the making out of your Colliery Accounts for
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 3 Aug 1781
Messrs Peter and James Mulcaster. Farnacres 3d August 1781
On looking over the last Operation for the Ore of 1780 we find that you gave set down 1000 pieces of Refineable Lead less than had been refined and had reckoned the Refined Lead produced in that Operation to be 1Cwt pieces instead of 1 1/2 Cwts which errors we gave rectified and desire you will set the Originals in your hands right.
By James Johnson we send your Books of Operations and two of your Books
