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Letter – Edward Blackett to Robert Fenwick – 19 Jun 1710
June 19
Sr
I Rec[eive]d yours with a Bill for £150 for w[hi]ch I thank you Pray att your Conveniency Pay the Ballance either in Bills or Money and you’ll very much oblige Sr your Most humble servt
Mr Alderman Fenwick
Letter – Edward Blackett to Edward Blackett – 20 Jun 1710
June 20 1710
Dear Nedde
This is Onely to Acq[ain]t you that Mr Aislabie is disappointed and will not be in Town till Either Saturday night or Tuesday night, so be sure both these days in the Evening go the Black bull in Holburne where the Yorke Coach comes to, & desire Mr Aislabie to speak to Mr Burdett, if he can putt you in to be a Lieut[enant] in a Cruiser, if Mr Aislabie & he cannot do it then take the first Yorke Coach, & lett me know before you sett foreward & sha
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Roper – 22 Jun 1710
June 22 1710
Mr Roper
I am surprised to perceive by your Rec[eip]t which My servt brought me that you Received of him £13.9 when your Note came but to £12 19 2½ which I have sent you by the Bearer & besides you charge me 3d p[er] <Cwt> more than any of our smiths pays for Iron, and I am sure they never pay you under six or 12 Months & sometimes never, so I must own I’m very ill dealt withall by you I desire to know how you come to Receive more money of my servt than
Letter – Edward Blackett to Joseph Green – 23 Jun 1710
Mr Green June 23 1710
Sr
My wife tell me she believes you have several other pictures besides my Lady Conway of her Relations, they were all Copies taken by an indiffer[en]t good hand, so pray by the very first post lett me know how many of them you have & the names & I hope we may agree for them all in case youll be Reasonable as to the Price, I do assure you they are but Copies and cost att the first just £5 apiece, so if you have not already sent my Lady Conways do no
Letter – Edward Blackett to George Mashrother – 23 Jun 1710
June 23
Mr Mashrother
I desir’d you in my last Letter to buy me a thousand of the best holand tiles to be had in town & since I perceive by my workmen that 6 hundred w[i]th w[ha]t I have at Newby will do my business so pray upon reciept Hereof to buy them & order them to be put aboard Thorps boat he is the only man I Employ to bring up my goods pray do this w[i]th Expedition & you will much Oblige
Your Obliged friend to serve you
For Mr Mas[h]rother at his house in
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Jones – 24 Jun 1710
Newby June 24
Honest Mr Jones
I Rec[eive]d your Letters from Morpeth & Durham We have had a fine season of Weather so I doubt not but you’ve had a pleasant Journey
Am oblig’d to you for your kind Wishes For my health, I thank God I never had it better, I am making a little building w[hi]ch keeps me Employ’d, and am up Every morning betwixt five and six aclock & sometimes sooner to inspect my Work people.
Am very glad to hear there is such a hopefull
Letter – Edward Blackett to Leonard Bentham – 24 Jun 1710
June 24
Mr Bentham
I Rec[eive]d your Letter p[er] Mr Loraine, & you may be assured I will never lett any of my Wasts at Fallowfield but to people that will work them themselves, & if there were [Wastes] there to Employ a hundred if twere possible to gett them, I’d sett them att Work, for the sooner they’re brought up the more my Advantage, I hear the forefield is come in very good w[hi]ch am heartily glad of, & I wish it may continue as good as Ever was in my time, the
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Aislabie – 24 Jun 1710
June 24 1710
D[ea]r Sr
I hope this will find you in good health after your Journey I desire you’ll do me the favour to speak to Mr Burdett as soon as possibly you can, and if there be no hopes of getting Nedde a Lieutenancy in a Cruiser pray order him to take the first Stage Coach & come into the Country, have writ him to the same purpose my selfe
Am now at a great loss for Want of a spare coach horse, I doubt one of my Wheel horses in a little time will be blind, I
Letter – Edward Blackett to Richard Gowland – 25 Jun 1710
June 25
Mr Gowland
I perceive by my servt you do not go to Wakefield, so I desire you’ll inclose my Letter that I writ you last night to your son in law, & desire him to speak to Mr Grene, & inclose me the names of the severall Pictures belonging to my Wifes family, which are in his Custody, they are onely Copies and cost £5 apiece, and if he’ll use me well I’ll take them all that are not spoil’d, and pray order him to give my service to Mr Grene & give a lin
Lease – James Radcliffe to John Errington – 29 Jun 1710
Lease dated 29 June, 1710, from the Right Honourable James, earl of Darwentwater, viscount Radclyffe and Langley, and baron of Tyndale, to his uncle, the Honourable Thomas Radclyffe and John Errington, esquire, of Beaufront, of lead mines, &c,, in the manor of Aldstone, in the county of Cumberland.
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 29 Jun 1710
June 29 1710
Honest Will
I orderd Mr Ward & Mewburne to go to you & that you would show them what was done last year at the Dams & also to view w[ha]t was requisite to be done this year & that Mr Ward might consider with you the Easiest & best method for securing the ground but I perceive these two fools view’d the Dams but never came to you till the[y] wer[e] coming away w[hi]ch I am very angry at them for, for Mr Wards business there was surely to Discover &
Letter – Edward Blackett to Philipp Leece – 29 Jun 1710
June the 29
Honest Phillip
I Received yours the 25 am glad that the undertakers have made a pay but I find you are very much mistaken in your Reckoning when you say sixteen pieces to the Tunn w[he]n fourteen p[ieces] is a Tunn & something better & if all the ore w[hi]ch is [in] the field had been smelted I know the undertakers would have lost very little or nothing shall Allwayes be glad to hear of their gettings for I heartily wish each of them as much profit as my self
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Jones – 29 Jun 1710
June the 29
Honest Mr Jones
Sr I perceive by yours of the 27 that your Bro is safely Arriv’d, which I am heartily glad of Pray give my service to him & Acq[uain]t him that I should be mighty glad he would refresh […] his own time at Newby on his Journey to London, with my humble service to all your Relations I am your Real friend & servt
Mr Wm Jones att Mrs Hendrys house In Durham
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Ward – 29 Jun 1710
June 29
Mr Ward
Yours of the 25 came to my hand by a strange Accident, for the post boy had lost it nigh Ottrington, and an honest Man found it, and seeing it Directed for Me brought it to Newby, I thank you for the trouble you gave your selfe in going to Will[imotes]wike, but both you & Mewburne misunderstood me, for I writ to Will Lowes that you would call of him about such a time and that he should shew you all that was done att the Dams last year, as also what’s requisi
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 29 Jun 1710
June 29
James
I Rec[eive]d yours of the 24 I perceive both you & Mr Ward has been att Will[imotes]wike, tho’ your Journey was to no manner of purpose, for I told you both to call of Will Lowes & he would shew you what was done last Year as likewise what to be done this, and then afterwards Mr Ward might compute what the charge of both might be, & consult Will Lowes the best means for securing the Ground from the Water, so you see you have made a Journey to no purpos
Letter – Edward Blackett to George Storzaker – 29 Jun 1710
June 29
Mr Storzaker
I have Occasion for some Ash Wood for my Husbandry, and hearing you have a large Ash Tree blown down in the Park by the Keeper’s Lodge, which will be very serviceable to me, so shall referr the price to your selfe, and come to Newby & I’ll pay you for it, lett me know by the Bearer if ‘tis not dispos’d of, and shall send a Workman to cutt it into lengths
I am your Assured friend to serve you
To Mr Geo Sterzaker These [presents] Ripon
Letter – Edward Blackett to Andrew Wilkinson – 29 Jun 1710
June 29 1710
Sr
I would very gladly have halfe an hour’s discourse with you, ‘tis about your own Concern, so if you’ll dine with me to morrow, or come tho’ it be but for halfe an hour I’ll Acq[ain]t you with it. I am in haste
Andrew Wilkinson Esqr these [presents] Burrowbridge
Letter – Edward Blackett to Maria Blackett – 30 Jun 1710
June 30
Dr Maria
You writ me that my Ld Warrington was Extreamly civil to you, so I thought in good manners I ought to Return him my thanks for his great civility to you, so Inclosed I send you his obliging Letter in Answer to Mine
The Capt & his Wife are gone to live att their own Estate in Cheshire, I Rec[eive]d a Letter from him this morning & he writes me that my Ld is Extreamly kind to them, and gave then an invitation to his own house, where they now are, an
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Millington – 30 Jun 1710
June ult
Honest Capt
I Rec[eive]d your Letter of the 23 this morning with great satisfaction, Am glad that your selfe & good Mrs Millington gott safe to Dunham, & that my Ld Warrington is so Extreamly Civil to you pray give my most humble service to his Lordship, & tell him how much I think my selfe oblig’d to him for his kind Letter Give my service to Sr Samuell Daniel, & acq[uain]t him that I wish him much Joy of his Daughter, and I heartily wish the next may be a s
Letter – Edward Blackett to Anne Simpson – 3 Jul 1710
July 3d 1710
Dear Cosen Simson
I had a letter from my servant Mewburn last post who acquaints me that you had not agreed with the house keeper because she Insisted upon £10 a year wages which indeed is more then we allwayes use to give my wife Desires you will send for her & acquaint her that £8 at Newby is better then £10 at some other families by reason we have Often times Company & she allwayes getting money so desires you will hire her as cheap as you can agree &am
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 3 Jul 1710
Newby July 3d 1710
Honest Will
The above saide is a Coppy of my last upon the receipt of this letter send to all the bailifs in the several manners & order them to send you an Exact list of all the tennants names w[ha]t rent they pay & for w[ha]t place Firstly Writ & the bailifs name at the bottom of the rental & do you incude their rentel with one from your self with the farmers names & the rent they pay & for what place Jacob Peart will want money for paying f
Letter – Diana Deleval to Edward Blackett – 4 Jul 1710
Newby July the 4 1710
Dear Brother
My father is mighty angry with you that he does not hear from you every post tho’ it be but too lines as he order’d you he tels me that his command was in several of his letters to you that in case Mr Aislabe & Mr Burshet could not Immediately get you a lieutenancy you shu’d take the very first Coach either to york or Wakefield & assoon as he heard the day you would take Coach he would send horses to meet you at one of these places &
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 5 Jul 1710
July 5
The above said is a Coppy of my Letter which I sent by Roland Smith with a Coppy of Armstrongs lease of Bardon mill Inclosed & since I wrote you one Dated the 3d of July but I percieve by yours of the 29 which I Rec[eive]d this morning that neither of my letters came to your hand you write me that beast gave but a slow price at Stanche bank [Stagshaw Bank?] my steward Mr Ward carried above a hundred pound with him to Lay out in Cattle & he saith that they were so Extrav
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 6 Jul 1710
James July 6 1710
The above said is a Letter which I wrote last post to my Cosen Simson so upon receipt hereof go to her & know whether she has rec[eive]d it or not if not you may read it to her Mr Hargrave is in the right in what he told you about Sr Johns proveing the settlement for I took advice upon that matter be sure you do not open your mouth of it to any one
I mightily wonder w[ha]t alderman Fenwick designs to do about the ballance of his acct allwa
Letter – Edward Blackett to Henry Watkinson – 7 Jul 1710
July the 7 1710
Sr
The Bearer hereof Mr Lodge is a peaceable, honest, civil man, & very diligent in his Function & Calling, yet I perceive has been mightily Abused by One John Dickinson, who to my own knowledge is the greatest Villain imaginable, & had been sent for a soldier but upon his poor wife’s Acct who notwithstanding he Us’d very ill drawing her about the house by the hair of her head, and at length gave her a bruise on her Breast which prov’d a Cancer &
