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Letter – Edward Blackett to Robert Booth – 14 Apr 1710
April 14
Worthy Mr Dean,
In return for yr agreeable Epistle of the 27 past I inclose you an address which was sent from that Loyall Corporation of Ottringham which I hear was Sign’d by Severall Gentlemen of that County, As yr nephew and brother , Sr Robt Buckinfield, Sr Sam’l Daniel, Col Leigh and a great many more Such honable & worthy Patriots whose businesses and Chiefest cases are Employed in discouraging those Trumpeters of Rebellion, who endeavour to blast the best
Letter – Edward Blackett to Chippingdale – 15 Apr 1710
April 15 1710
Honest Mr Chippendall
I had returnd you my Thanks long before this for yr noble present but the man that brought it prompt to me so <neatly> before he returnd to Yorke, I must Own was as fine a pike as ever I see. We had it roasted and it Eat Extraordinarily well and we drunk the <D…> health. If I knew any thing in this part of the County that was a <Rarity> with you it should be sent by yr assured friend
Mr Chippingdall Keppr of the Castle att Y
Letter – Edward Blackett to Francis Pemberton – 15 Apr 1710
April 15 1710
Sr,
I have recd both yr lettrs. You have been so Extreamly kind in all my Concerns that I must always own those favours with all the Acknowledgements imaginable.
You may perceive by the Inclosed that there is no money to be had at Newcastle under £5 ½ or 6 P Cent. So if Mr Peirse’s £1,000 might be depended upon at £5 or 5 ½ the Remainder might soon be raised. I would willingly hear you had got an Answer from Mr Harland, I writ last post to Lawyer Barnes who is
Letter – Edward Blackett to Cornelius Barker – 16 Apr 1710
April 16
Mr Barker,
Since you were here I have a letter from a friend at Yorke who has bought me as many tiles as I shall have occasion for so you need not give yourselfe any further trouble upon that acct.
Be sure you make all the haste imaginable to get the wood all ready I hope you may saw it into the Demensions there, and then it will be much better to bring. For fear this Lettr should miscarry I have sent a Copy of it for you at <Sessays>. Lett me have a line from you an
Letter – Edward Blackett to Thomas Adams – 16 Apr 1710
Sr,
Am very obliged to you for yr Letter and the Inclosed will inform you upon what acct I have occasion for £1500 so pray p[er]use it & inclose it to nobody [I] shall be very much obliged to my Lady Hewley if she’ll let me have a thousand pounds at £5 p cent. I am informed she takes no more. You know I can give her undeniable security wch is the Lordship of Newby & shall send you over the writings when there is occasion. Could willingly have wished the whole sum might have been ha
Letter – Edward Blackett to Edward Blackett – 16 Apr 1710
Dr Nedd
I am very glad to perceive by yr letter of the 11th that you mind yr business so well. You may be assured I’ll make use of all the friends I have for yr advancement. You must have a little patience and I do not in the least question but a Capts Comission will be procured for you. I hope the D of <Devon[shire]> is returned from Newmarket by this time, should make frequent Inquiry when he does come, & then acquaint mr Aislabie and I doubt not but he will immediately go to his
Letter – Edward Blackett to George Mashrother – 16 Apr 1710
April the 16
Mr Sheffing
Sr,
I heartly thank you for making inquiry for Tiles. I desire you’ll bargain <promptly> for 3,000. I not in the least question but you’ll buy them as cheap as possibly you can and if I should repair all my stables should have occasion for many more, however the workmen tell me that 3000 will serve at present. Pray give my service to Mr Cuthbertson and Mrs Thomson & if they’ll let me know by the bearer what day they’ll come to Newby my Coach
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Thomson – 16 Apr 1710
April the 16 1710
Sr,
Pray let me know by the bearer how farr you have proceded in the fine for the Northern Estate. I am informed if we had not been so hasty we might have come of the cheaper, <T…..> I believe ‘tis too late to talk of these things now. I am yr assured friend & Servt
For Mr Wm Thomson &c Yorke
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Ward – 17 Apr 1710
April the 17 1710
Mr Ward,
Inclosed I send you young Mr Place’s Lettr. There was two years rent due to me last Martinmas So As I told you before in case Mr Place refuse to pay you which I hope he’ll be wider then speak to an Attorney who will Soon get me my money with charge to Mr Place.
I long to hear what you have done with Nelson. I hope you’ll make an indifferent good End with him, for you know we can prove that he Enjoy’d the Land, and I nca swear he never paid any Ren
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 17 Apr 1710
April the 17 1710
Honest Jacob,
For fear mine of the 13th miscarried have sent you a copy of it. Seeing it Relates to my own business att Fallowfield I have nothing to add to it but that I am yr assured friend
Letter – Edward Blackett to Francis Pemberton – 17 Apr 1710
April the 17 1710
Sr,
I had a letter from <Dr> Adams the same post that you rec’d yrs from Dr Ward and just now I Recd another from him which you have here Inclos’d
I design God Willing to wait on you at beadle On Thursday next about one or two a clock, but will Eat nothing but a piece of a cold <brear> of Mutton, so if that time suit yr convenience let me have a line by the next post, for I must be at home on Saturday night. With all service from yr oblig
Letter – Edward Blackett to Thomas Brummell – 17 Apr 1710
April the 17 1710
Sr,
I Recd your letter and Inclosd which pray foreward I return a Copy of the Articles of Agreement betwixt my Son & his partner. I think in good manners they ought to name my Son first, he being a Baronets Son, so consequently of much bettr quality. I shall have £1000 here at £5 p cent & I hope Mr Barnes will procure me £500 at 5 ½ . I desire you’ll take an opportunity at your own time to discourse Mr Barnes & know what his thoughts are For by the A
Letter – Edward Blackett to Beaumont – 18 Apr 1710
April 18
Sr,
I recd yours this morning. Am sorry to perceive you have been well of late. If I had known you would not have come down would have Returned you what I am indebted to you long before this. So Inclos’d you have a bill for it. Pray send me by the first Richmond carrier as under writ, you must consider that the carriage of every pound will me two pence so I expect you’ll use me Accordingly. Upon receipt of my Letr pray let me hear from you & the carriers name. you send them
Letter – Edward Blackett to Christopher Blackett – 18 Apr 1710
April 18
Dr Kitty,
Mr Marshall was with me the other day, and told me that you would willingly have a servt out of Yorkshire that understood weighing & making up of small parcells. I have upon inquiry found out such a man. You know his father, tis John Yeats son of Skelton and fit both able and willing to be bond in a great sum for his honesty. I know he’d be willing to come for about six pounds or 6 guineas a year provided you find him meat drin k washing &c he has at least
Letter – Edward Blackett to Henry Iveson – 18 Apr 1710
April 18
Sr,
I desired my son Wise to Acqt you that I had a young Gelding one of my Coach horses gone blind and that <fancy> he might be serviceable to you for yr Ginn. If you think the price he sett of him to be too much if you please to send for him <If a.> shall pay me as he proves & shall take it out by price or Coales or Sinders. I’ll assure you he’s a very sound gelding both in his Wind & Limbs and if he had his eyes would not take £25 for him. So pray le
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 20 Apr 1710
April 20
Honest Will,
This day the bearer John Glendenings daughter was with me, who makes a heavy complaint that there is a house at the millhouse that belongs to her, her aunt who had it for her life being dead I desire you’ll inquire into this business and if there be any such thing let the poor Woman have her right for I will not have any one debarr ‘d of their just due. After the perusal of the paper of the names of a great many little Farms wch my father bought after he purch
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 20 Apr 1710
April 20
Honest Will,
The above said is a copy of my last. I fear it miscarried because I have heard nothing from you since the wood monger that I writ you of cannot possibly come up till after sap time. However I would not have you delay to sell as much wood as possibly you can. You may be <..> and I’ll always leave wood enough for my Mills & <Tenants>. Be sure you give me an estimate what you judge the wood at Whiteshields may be worth as also whats left at Chesterw
Letter – Edward Blackett to Nicholas Fenwick – 20 Apr 1710
April 20
Sr,
Pray send me p Saturday night’s post a bill for £45 at fifteen days or 20 after date. You may now more certainly depend upon a speedy peace wch I doubt not in the least will be very acceptable new to you.
I am yr very humble servt
Mr Ald.man Fenwick mercht in Newcastle
Letter – Edward Blackett to Thomas Adams – 21 Apr 1710
April 21 1710
Sr,
Am oblig’d to you for the favour of yur lettr and shall lend you my Writings of the Lordsp of Newby on Monday next. I desire you’ll take care that such security may be drawn as will satisfy my Lady. Tis a shame that above £300 a year should be given for the security of a £1000 so I think one part of the Lordship mortgagd for that sum is sufficient. However I refer that & what concerns this affair to yr management and what trouble you shall be at you shall be
Letter – Edward Blackett to Mrs Cuthbertson – 21 Apr 1710
April 21 1710
Mrs Cuthbertson,
I rec’d yr Lettr this morning & shall do what’s in my power to serve you in yr concerns with yr Graceless nephew. I have sent to him severall times to come to Newby and he will not come nigh me. I desired the Postman last night not to fail to Send him to Newby and to tell him in case he wanted a little money I’d let him have it. He told me he was sure nothing else would be an Inducement to bring him. If he had happened to come to Newby when he w
Letter – Edward Blackett to Francis Pemberton – 22 Apr 1710
April 22
Sr,
I recd yrs this morning with Mr Ward’s Inclos’d. I sent my Writings this day to Mr Adams and desired him that part of Newby Lordship might be Mortgag’d for the £1,000 and that he would take Care to see this business perfected, & would gratify him for his pains. Inclos’d I send you the Copy of a Lett. Which I recd this morning from Newcastle so when you hear from Mr Harland pray return him thanks & acqt him that yr friend has provided himselfe with that S
Letter – Edward Blackett to Thomas Adams – 23 Apr 1710
April 23
Sr,
According to Dr Ward’s Request I have Inclos’d you a particular of the Ground with the number of acres which is much more in values that £200 a year. I am sure less than 200 is sufficient security for £1000 however am resolved my Lady shall have security enough.
My wife has no Joynture out of Newby Lords.p and if Dr Ward distrust what I write shall send it under my wife’s own hand. I desire the Security may Comence not before the 1st day of May and when &
Letter – John Blackett to Cuthbert Burton – 23 Apr 1710
Mr C Burton Rotterdm 23 April 1710
Sr Inclosed Invoice of 4 Matts flax Ship in James Lidle for your Acct who Sailes to Morrow if the Wind is fair, Shall draw on you payabe in Newcastle
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Marshall – 24 Apr 1710
April the 24
Sr,
I hope this will find you well Returnd to yr own house. Inclosd you have a bill for £48 wch you paid me at Newby they are So scarce to be had not one to be got without advance. With my humble service to all yr relations I am yr assured friend & humble servt
Mr Jno Marshall
Letter – Edward Blackett to Maria Blackett – 25 Apr 1710
April the 25 1710
Dr Maria,
Acqt your brother Nedd I Rec’d his Lettr this morning and that at last the snuff came Safe to my hand, and I believe more than I should have had, tis the worst of the kind that ever I see not worth ¼ part of the moent that it cost. Shall be very glad to hear that my Ld Devonshire is come to Town and that Mr. Aislabie will leave the Town before yr bro get a Ship. Tell yr bro he must wait of Mr Aislabie as often as he can but not too troublesome to hi
