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Letter – Edward Blackett to Thomas Brummell – 24 Feb 1710
Sir Febry 24
I am much oblig’d to you for discoursing Mr Primate and am altogether of the mind that Mr Gould is a much more proper person than Mr Bridges to assist in this Affair, Some months ago I writ to Mr Gould and desir’d his Assistance upon my son Kitts Acct. I had a very civil Answer from him that he would be always ready to do my son all the Service in his power which I do not in the least question.
My Brother Bridges Acquainted me that the money wo
Letter – Edward Blackett to Edward Blackett – 24 Feb 1710
Dear Nedde Febry 24
I Recd both yrs of the 19th and 21st this morning the former should have come the post before, upon Rect. Of this go & give my Service to Mr Aislabie & know whether he Recd my Lettr of the 14th tho I doubt it did not come to his hand by Reason I have heard nothing from him Since, desire Mr Aislabie to speak to Mr Sharpe that he would Introduce you again to the Bishop of Ely, and then he’ll Acqt you what he has done in yr Affair, I believ
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 2 Mar 1710
Honest Will March 2 1709/10
I perceive by yrs that you took two Workmen and view’d Fallowfield Hall and outhouses, and that the estimate of the Charge would come to £60.07s.08d which is an Extravagant Sum for Such small buildings, I would have you by all means to get other two Workmen to View it and take their Estimate. Upon Rect. of this Lettr Acqt me where you design to gett the slates for there are few places in Northumberland where good ones are to be had f
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 2 Mar 1710
Honest Jacob March 2 1709/10
I perceive by yr last that in a very short time All will be Smelted up and carried to the halfeway, I do not know what weather you have with you but here tis like Summer, You must write Mewburn what time you design the Pay that he may acqt Mr Fenwick and Mr Featherstone to have their money Ready in a little time for the Lead they have had of me, Give me an Estimate by the very first post what you Judge the whole may come to, as also wh
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 2 Mar 1710
James Newby March the 2nd 1709/10
The Fish you sent me came very well to Ripon, let me know the price and charge of them, I perceive by my Lettr from Jacob that all the Oar will be Smelted up this Week, So give Mr Fenwick and Mr Featherston notice to have Moneys Ready against you call for it, which may be in 10 or 12 days time. Send me an Acct. of what Lead they have had, and what the Sum comes to, I would gladly have what Lead’s in the Cellar As also t
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Thomson – 3 Mar 1710
Sr March 3 1709/10
Inclosed I Return you Mr Halls Lettr. I think Mr Sanderson has been very civill, & Mr Hall very diligent, so if he have not already paid the money pray ord’r him to pay, with my Service to all your family I am in great haste
yr Assured friend & Servt.
Mr Wm Thomson
Letter – William Millington to Hugh Massey – 9 Mar 1710
D[ea]r Countryman March 3rd 1709/10
Sr Edward Blacket of late has turned of[f] three or four Coachmen, and had one Recommended to him about a week ago which he likes very well, he gives his Service to you and bid me Acqt you that if he was not provided he would sooner take one of your Recommendation than from any other.
We have a report here that you would rather take a house in the heart of the Town than than where you now live and that you may have Ald.
Letter – Edward Blackett to Mr Ovington – 9 Mar 1710
Mr Ovington March 9 1709/10
The Bear’r my Servt. is a very sober fellow and One that I have a kindness for so I would willingly have him to learn to brew and make mault, if you have a spare Room in yr house I would table him with you for two Months if not, I desire you’ll get him Tabled in Town by you, and I’ll thankfully pay what they please for his Table washing and lodging, and I doubt not but you’ll be so kind as to teach him what Art you have both as t
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 9 Mar 1710
Honest Jacob March 9 1709/10
I perceive by yours that there’s 1827 pcs. Made of the Grove Oar, and 277 of Slagg Lead, these 277 pcs which Loraine made can’t possibly be 20 Fothers, I was informed that he made his Piggs a very small weight, but if that small number of pcs make 20 Fothers they are much heavier than the Smelters make for me, for 280 of mine will but make 20 Fo. So satisfy me how this is in yr next. As soon as all the Lead’s at Newcastle I’d ha
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 9 Mar 1710
Honest Will March 9
I writ you of the 2nd and since I heard nothing from you, upon Rect. of this Lettr I’d have you take a view of the wood at Brear Woodbank as also all the rest of my Woods and acqt. me what number of Trees you may cutt down this Spring & what Sum they may come to, I would have you to cutt down as much as you think you could gett vended, but no more, I shall have a Pay at Fallowfield Shortly, and have ord’d Jacob by this post to give you n
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 9 Mar 1710
James March 9 1709/10
I Perceive by yrs that there was onely 1988 pcs in the Cellar So you want 116 pcs to make up the number that was made since the last Pay, I bargained with Mr Featherstone for 6 or 700 pcs which you writ me he had occasion for, the price was £8.15s after that I writ to him whether he had occasion for any more, his Answer was he could afford to give no more than £8.12.6 d so you may very well remember I order’d you to go to Mr Fenwick to acq
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Ward – 9 Mar 1710
Mr Ward March 9 1709/10
I Recd yr Lettr of Complem’ts which you might very well have Spared yr Selfe that trouble, for without any Complem’ts yr Daughters were as welcome at Newby as if they had been at yr own house, my wife and Daughter Blacket give their kind Remembrance to yr Wife & two Daughters and bid me tell you they must have their Company at Newby this Summer. Am very sorry to hear of Mr <Vaines> being so dangerously ill, pray A
Letter – Edward Blackett to Francis Pemberton – 10 Mar 1710
Sir March the 10th
Inclos’d I send you Mr Thornton’s Lettr. which after perusal I desire you’ll Return me, you see what he writes, So you need not give yr Selfe the trouble to write him any more about this business, nor do I believe ‘tis possible for him to procure the money, I desire you’ll do me the fav’r to write a Lettr. to Dr Ward, if Such a Sum may be procur’d at 5 per Cent and undeniable Security given for it, to be paid the first week in Ju
Letter – Edward Blackett to Richard Thornton – 10 Mar 1710
Sir March the 10 1709/10
Am very much oblig’d to you for the trouble you were pleas’d to give yr Selfe upon my Acct. I doubt it will be hard to gett £1500 in one person’s hand I design however to write to York shortly to know what may be done there. I am Sir yr most oblig’d humble Servt
Richard Thornton Esq. At his house in Leeds
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Parmentier – 10 Mar 1710
Mr Parmentier March 10 1709/10
I Rec’d yr Lettr. from Leeds ten days agoe and have Expected you Every day since, I hope yr old Discharge of the Gout has not Seiz’d on you Againe, and that Mr Parmentier will not break his promise so often Repeated to yr Assured friend
Mr Parmentier Att his Lodging in Leeds
Letter – Edward Blackett to Mr Fish – 10 Mar 1710
Mr Fish March 10
I have Rec’d Sev’rall Lettrs from Mr Parmentier of late, and that he would have been with me long Eer now but that he had gott the Gout, and about ten days Agoe I had a lettr from him that he was finally well Recovered & was at Leeds, and would be with me in 3 or 4 days time, but Since that I neither See him nor heard from him, which makes me think he never designs to do it, pray do me the fav’r <where’d> he is to write a line
Letter – John Blackett – 11 Mar 1710
Mr Wm forster at Mr Childs in love Lane Billingsgate London now in George lane nigh pudding lane
Letter – John Blackett to John Kelly – 11 Mar 1710
Mr Kelley Rotterdm 11 March 1710
Inclosed Remit you for your Acct a bill on Mr Feartherstone & Reay of £70 a 34<B>11 f733:5 Shall Send per Harrison or Some other Master the goods you writ for, according to Mr Gibson order has made no Insurance on Goods in the Jane of Montross David Gentleman Master
Letter – John Blackett to Matthew Featherstone – 11 Mar 1710
Mr Featherstone & Reay Ditto
have this day drawn on you a bill of £70 at 2 usance to the order of Mr John Kelley or 34<B> 11 f733 Shall Send you per first Ship 2 Matts flax at 17 or 18 Stl 400 CandleWeek 10 Matts Ryn & 8 Matts Bors Ton please to let me know if will take the Bos Tow for your Acct because you Never writ for any Severall writ me for what could get but being Scarce Sends all to you I am
Letter – Edward Blackett to Richard Speight – 11 Mar 1710
Honest Mr Speight March 11
I’m very glad to perceive by yr Lettr that you have bought 4 horses, and pray lett me have one of the best of them that will Suit my sett and you shall have yr own price for him, I hope one of them may Either Suit Ratt tail or the young horse that you bought for me , which I do think to be the finest Coach horse in Yorkshire, my horses are fifteen hands two Inch and some of them fifteen hands 3 Inches, however a small ma
Letter – Edward Blackett to Mrs Gray – 11 Mar 1710
Good Mrs Gray March 11 1709/10
I must now tell you that the Coachman I gott last proves as idle a drunken fellow as any I had before, but whether he was of yr Recommending or not I cannot well remember, pray desire Mr Gray to inquire me out a good Coachman, I would have him a lusty good like fellow unmarried and one that understands his business & a sober Man, I have been so often mistaken in my Coachmen that I almost despair of ever having one to
Letter – Edward Blackett to Blackett Mitford – 14 Mar 1710
Nephew Mitford March 14 1709/10
I have so very often writ to yr father upon yr Acct & and all to no purpose, that tis in vain to trouble him any more, he has been so very dangerously ill of late and continues so that most people think he cannot possibly <over> this sickness. I design the first post to write to my Coz. Wilkinson & desire him to go to yr mother, and Acqt. her with yr whole Circumstances, and tell her that in case she’ll be so kind as
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Wilkinson – 14 Mar 1710
Coz. Wilkinson March 14
I desired Mr Brummell the other day to give you a Lettr which I Recd. from my nephew Mitford, and inclos’d is another which I desire you’ll peruse, he’s putt to very hard Shifts, and tis a pity he should want a small Sum to pay for his Passage, I desire you’ll spare so much time as to go to Sighill & and Read my Sister Mitford both the lettrs and in case She’ll be so kind as to give him £20 I’ll give him ten pounds a
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 16 Mar 1710
James Newby the 16 March 1709/10
I Rec’d yrs with the Account of the weight of the Lead delivered Mr Fenwick & Mr Featherstone, wch I find right. I hope ere this all the Lead that was made this year is brought into the Cellar - soe order Jacob immediately to come to NewCastle, to assist you in carrying up the money and be sure you ride in the day time, and have some more Company with you than Jacob, be sure you make a clear pay, and lett not one workma
Letter – Edward Blackett to Edward Blackett – 17 Mar 1710
Dear Nedde March 17 1709/10
I Recd yrs of the 14 this Morning, and am very glad by yr good friends interest you are in so fair a way of getting a Capt’s Commission, Be sure you fail not to write me Every post, for am uneasy till I hear that yr Commission is post.
I wish this Dr Sacheverill had never been born, for he has done more harm than Ever he’ll live to do good. Am sure his Tryal has put you back in yr business very considerable.
I p
