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Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 9 Jan 1710
Honest Jacob Janry 9
I Rec’d yr Lettr of the <6>th. You may Remember there was a blank left in both the Lease & Counterpart in place of which was that I should have the use of One hearth in the great mill one week in a month for smelting my Wast Oar, for the Spaces of blank, and I ordered my Servt to put in 21 years which by a mistake was not done, so be Sure you get a <crosse> under their hands that I may have the use of one of the hearths a wee
Letter – Edward Blackett to Ralph Loraine – 9 Jan 1710
Mr Loraine Janry 9 1709/10
I perceive by my Steward that you misunderstood me when you were last at Newby, I told you that in case the Winter prov’d extremely hard and the Summer Drouty, that in case you kept close to your work and neglected no time when the Weather was Seasonable I would not take the forfeiture of yr Bond wch is £100 but allow you six months longer for making our yr 40 ffo at £3.10s per fother. Certainly you could not imagine I should
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Stapylton – 11 Jan 1710
Sir Janry 11th
I have been at Ripon all this day upon a <C….> otherwise yr Servt might have been Dispatched long before this. I am very sorry to hear by Mr Gowland of yr <…. …..> indisposition, & shall send a plaister to lay to his stomach tomorrow morning wch I hope by Gods almighty Blessing will have the desired Effect All this family are humble Servts to yr Selfe & Lady and pray believe me always Sir yr faithful h
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Douglas – 12 Jan 1710
Sir Janry 12 1709
I Recd yrs with the Inclosed for wch I thank you, my Wife has no further thoughts of taking Col. Blakiston’s house by reason she hears that the old Lady would be very unwilling to leave it, tis for the Convenience of living in a Town in winter and not in Summer, that she would have taken it, she is now advised to take a house for a term of years in London by Reason most of her Relations are always there in winter, so should have an Opportunity of s
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 12 Jan 1710
James Janry 12
Inclosed I send you the two Leases, the one Executed and the other I perused so you may get it Engrossed at yr Convenience, and inclose it to me,
I doubt not but that you may get the old <Dormer> supported with a very little charge, as also what Else is necessary to be done at the house, onely to Support it from falling, Am glad you have paid Mr Featherstone for the moneys you took of his <lad> is charge Mr Aislabie’
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 12 Jan 1710
Honest Jacob Janry 12
This is a Copy of my last, I would have you to Sett on as many people as possibly you can to get all the waste Dress’d up, that is to say, so many people at each <Shaft> and that they go to the very bottom of every heap, I will not part with any of the Washing tubbs but I will lend them till they can get some made, for shall make all of them my Selfe being I’m resolved to sett so many Severall companys at work, Mewburne will not f
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 14 Jan 1710
Honest Jacob Janry 14
I Rec’d yrs of the 12th and I’ll assure you what I wish I had it from no man living, it was onely a foolish Surmise of my own, and am mighty well Satisfied in every Particular, Be sure you Reserve as much work gearas will be useful for my Selfe both as the Working the Dead heaps & dressing the Slaggs, You are very much in the Right as to the Words of One & Twenty years being in or out of the Lease, for I took advice of it, So let lett a
Letter – Edward Blackett to Matthew Featherstone – 14 Jan 1710
Sir Janry 14
If Jacob Peart be not in Town I desire you’ll do me the favour to hire a messenger to go very betimes on Monday morning with the Inclosed What you are in disburse for the messenger Mewburne will Repay you X I am Sir yr very humble Servt
X Whatever you disburse for the messenger Mewburne will Repay you
Mr Featherston & Reay / Merchts in Newcastle
Letter – Edward Blackett to Maria Blackett – 14 Jan 1710
Dear Maria Janry 14
Am very well Satisfied with the Accts you give me of Mr & Mrs How, you do not write me the Street where they live, I perceive you spoke to Mr Speight to take you places, so I heartily wish you both a good Journey, you had much better desire yr Sister & Bro. Wise to meet you at Helperby at <Dui..> than to putt them to the trouble & charge of going to Yorke, and besides if you knew how uneasy tis to yr Sister to travel, you would n
Letter – Edward Blackett to Sampson Smirke – 15 Jan 1710
Sir Janry 15
I writ you on the 16 with an Inclosed Lettr for my Son, and a bill in it for £20, I desired you in case my Son was not in Town to open the Lettr and take out the bill and Receive the money for him, I am afraid my Lettr came not to yr Hand because I have heard nothing from you or my Son Ever Since, pray charge the postage all my Lettrs to my Acct for may have reason to write to you very often , I perceive by a Lettr from Mr Aislabie this day that he ha
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Ward – 16 Jan 1710
Mr Ward Janry 16
I Recd both yr Lettr Am sorry for the small <bottom> breach of the Dam <…>, tis well its no worse, I could wish the Mill had been lett for less rent, provided the Miller had been oblig’d to keep the Dam in Repair, when any burst happens you need not delay Repairing of it till you have ordrs from me, for all my Concerns there I refer it Solely to yr own discretion , I cannot imagine how you should <part with Garsell there> for y
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 16 Jan 1710
James Janry 16
I Recd yrs with Whitridge Lease which shall inclose you of fryday nights post, tho’ I know you cannot possibly be at Newcastle till Saturday, So you may write from Fallowfield to Mr Featherstone & Reay to call for yr Lettr at the post house and keep it till you come to Town, or you may Ordr Some from Seaton Delavall to bring it thither again you return, Am glad that so small a matter will repair both the Dormers, and at yr own Convenienc
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 19 Jan 1710
James Janry 19
<The above said is a> copy of my last wch I Sent to Fallowfield for fear it might miscarry <occasions this>. I perceive by Maria that she has Occasion for a small box or trunk at Seaton, so ordr it to be brought to Newcastle I doubt this Weather would hinder you from going to Warkburne, I long to hear What you have done at Fallowfield, Acqt Maria that you’ll bring her the old Trunk. Fail not to write as soon as this comes to hand to yr
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Thomson – 20 Jan 1710
Sir Janry 20
I perceive by yrs that yr Agent will take particular care of the Recovery for the Lordship of Girsby, which is all the Yorkshire Estates that I will have a Recovery upon. I have writ to Mr Aislabie to know what he judges the <pr…. I take> the <Fine> may be Compounded for, I am intimately acquainted with Mr Stockdale, and yr friend Mr Hall I desire may make use of my <share> to [struck out: ‘Mr Stockdale’], and know of him certai
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Aislabie – 20 Jan 1710
Dear Sir Janry 20 1709/10
I Recd yrs with much Satisfaction seeing it brought me an Acct of yr perfect Recovery.
I had a Lettr this post from Will Thomson of Yorke who I have Emply’d to Sue out a Recovery for my North Estates and there’s a great many Manners nam’d tho’ in Reality of no great Value only Royalties of Lead Share Coal &c and he writes me that in case an Intrest be made with Col. Saunderson the fine may be compounded for a small Matt
Letter – Edward Blackett to Henry Baynes – 21 Jan 1710
Sir Janry the 21st
I am much Oblig’d to you for giving me Mrs Squires Answer about her house, As for my Lady Moysley’s my Wife does not at all Approve of that house by Reason the Apothecary’s shop is so nigh the Dining Room & Drawing Room where they are continually beating in a mortar which is very troublesome to the next rooms both below and above pray Send me up by the boat two of yr new fashioned flat Glass Decanters, Acqt me if you have any Japan’d Ir
Letter – Edward Blackett to Thomas Errington – 21 Jan 1710
Sir Janry 21
I Recd yrs of the 19th and am very willing to make a bargain for all the Grove wasts dead Heaps & <Cuttings>, So let me know what you’ll give for them all together by the Lump, or what I shall give you for Smelting of them, provided you be obliged to go to the very bottom, and thro’ every great heap at Every Shaft, In case you by them by the Lump you have a Harth etc one week in every month during the Smelting of all yr Waste and what Slaggs
Letter – Edward Blackett to Humphrey Primate – 21 Jan 1710
Sir Mr Primate Janry 21
I had own’d the favour of yrs of the 29 long before this but being Xtmas time & much Abroad prevented me, Am very glad you have provided a sober ingenious man to be Company with my Son in partnership, and I do not in the least question but they’ll do well, you always give my Son a good Character which he’s much oblig’d to you for, & I hope he’ll have Grace to own his great Obligations to you for yr most oblig’d trouble for
Letter – Edward Blackett to Edward Blackett – 22 Jan 1710
Son Nedd Janry 22
Upon yr Earnest desire I sent you a bill for £20 Inclosed in my Lettr to Mr Smirke and ordered him in case you were not in Town to open it and take out the bill & Receive the money and pay it you when you came to Town, Tis now above five weaks time, and not a word from you nor Mr Smirke, I have likewise made it my best Endeavour to get you a Captain’s Commission and had certainly Accomplished it if I had had frequent Lettrs from yo
Letter – Edward Blackett to Sampson Smirke – 22 Jan 1710
Sir Janry 22
Tis now above 5 weeks Since I inclos’d you a Lettr to my Son Nedd with a bill of Exchange being for £20, and desir’d you in case he was not in Town to open the Lettr and take out the Bill and Receive the money, but since that time I never Recd one Syllable from you, tho’ I have writ to you post after post to know whether you Recd the Bill & where my son Nedd was, whether at London or Portsmouth; I perceive my Lettrs are very troublesome to you
Letter – Edward Blackett to Christopher Blackett – 22 Jan 1710
Dear Kitty Janry 22
I writ a Lettr last post to yr Master which I hope he Recd, upon Receipt of this Lettr go Immediately to Mr Smirke and know whether he Recd a Lettr for my Son Nedd with a Bill of Exchange In it, tis above 5 weeks ago and I never heard a word from him, which tell him I take mighty ill, If he and my Son Nedd had answer’d my Lettrs I had certainly got a Capts Commission for him ere this, I would yet know where my Son Nedd is and whether he has seen M
Letter – Edward Blackett to Matthew Featherstone – 24 Jan 1710
Sir
I perceive by yrs of the 21 that you have been at Fallowfield and that all things were prais’d [ie. appraised] except the washing Tubbs & bellows, I design to set on as many Work people as possibly I can to get all the dead heaps Wash’d up, and notwithstanding that I believe they will take longer <than> yr Lease before they be well <sought> thro for I look upon them to be worth a great many hundred pounds, You write me that you are mightily Cry’d ou
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Moore – 24 Jan 1710
My Lord 24 Janry
I humbly begg yr Lordship’s pardon for desiring yr favr & Intrest on behalf of my second Son he went to sea with the King William Lettrs for Sevrall Years and Since for two years past has Command’d as Second Lieut on board of the Oxford, the fav’r I have to begg of yr Lordship is that you would please to Intercede for a Capts Commission for him, the Command of a ship is his greatest Ambition, and my particular Request, which with yr Lor
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Aislabie – 24 Jan 1710
Dear Sir Janry 24
I hope you Recd my last Lettr I perceive tis in Mr Stockdale’s power to make the Fine very Easy and I believe I need not question what’s in his power to do me Service
The Inclos’d I desire you’ll peruse, seal and give my son Nedd, and ordr him to wait on the Bishop of Ely and deliver it, who I know will be very willing to Serve him with his best Intrest, I doubt if my Lord Devonshire should know that I make use of any Intrest but his
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 26 Jan 1710
Honest Jacob Janry 26
I perceive by yrs that Mr Featherstone & Mr Mowbray & Mewburne was with you, and valued the Work geer, as also that you had been at Warkburne but the Bailiff Dodd not being at home I Believe you did not See the place wch he talk’d on for he told me he had Workmen to work at both Ends of the Veins and found a fair Vein & Rake soil in both places, I do not question but I can let her for 1/6 but in the Spring when good Weather is I
