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Letter – Edward Blackett to Francis Pemberton – 7 Dec 1710
Dec 7
Sr
My Wife is so much out of order that she begs your pardon that she cannot write to you my poor Daughter Blacket has been very Dangerously Ill but I thanke god she is somewhat better tho Extrordionary am glad my godson has got so well through the small pox wilh my blessing to him I am in very great haste
Sr Your faithfull humble servt
For the revd Mr Pemberton at Bedale
Letter – Edward Blackett to Mr Lloyd – 7 Dec 1710
Sr
When I was last with you I took out a wrong paper I put in a Codicill & should have taken out the other and instead of that I took out my will so I desire you will send me the Packet & shall rectifie the Mistake & returne it & Desire your usual care of it & youll very much oblige Sir
Your most Humble Servt
For the rev Mr <F> Lloyd Ripon
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Blackett – 8 Dec 1710
Dear Nephew
I have the favour of yours on the 5th would advise you by no means to appear in the house I cant beleive the house will be calld over till after Christmas & then you may get any friend of yours to acq[ain]t the house that you are in towne & not well which Ime sure will be satisfaction to the house [struck out: ‘perhaps the house may not be calld over till sometime after Candlemas’] & will save you a Northern Journey for if any should move into the house when y
Letter – Edward Blackett to Edward Blackett – 8 Dec 1710
Dear Nedde
I rec[eive]d yours from Stamford am sorry you could not light of an oppertunity for your servt I have Capt. Smith a Roule of Brawn so you must order Mrs Smith to get Pickle ready for it it will be at the Carriers house on Saturday in the affternoon so send your servt for it upon rec[eip]t of this letter goe & Inquire out your Cosen Blacket & tell him I write him this post but did not know how to Direct it so he may send his servt to the Lobey Where all members of Parli
Letter – John Blackett to Matthew Featherstone – 9 Dec 1710
Mr Featherstone & Reay Rotterdm 9 Decemr 1710
This to advise you that this day have drawn on you payabe in London a bill of £60 35<..> 8<..> to the order Mr Joel Walton for wch make you Credit f642gl
Letter – John Blackett to Robert Sutton – 9 Dec 1710
Mr Robert Sutton Ditto
have this day drawn a bill at 2 usance payabe in London to the order Mr Joel Walton of £60 at 35<..> 8<..> f642 when accept the bill must write what house will be pd in Londn
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Wilkinson – 11 Dec 1710
December 11 1710
Sr
By John Chapman the Ripon Carrier I have sent you a Roule of Brawne which I hope will prove good I[t] has been 3 or 4 Dayes in sauce pray order your Servt to have sauce ready to put ite in against it come the Carrier will be in towne on thursday or Fryday next he lodges at the George at the foot of the Butcher bank assoon as you have tasted it pray let me know how it proves with my service to your self and all my Cosens I am
Your affect[ionate] Kinsman and
Letter – John Blackett to John Kelly – 12 Dec 1710
Mr John Kelley Ditto 12 Decembr 1710
Sr In my last forgot to Send bills of loading of your potts & my paper the Crusibles cost f8:10 Robothan Safe arrived but corne come to a bad Market here are nigh 200 Ships loaden wth malt & Barley wch has lowered the prices much, coals 17 to 17 1/2 gl. Shall dispose your corne to Morrow if possible will certainly be lower. a bill of £2:11:6 on Andr Browne given me by Heemskerk
Flax 23 to 25 St
Letter – John Blackett to Nicholas Ridley – 12 Dec 1710
Messrs N & R Ridley Rotterdm 12 Decembr 1710
I Recd yours of 14 9br wth bill of loading of four last Bigg in Tho Robothan, who is Safe arrived, here are at least 170 or 200 Ships all loaden wth Malt & barley wch has lowered the prices, Shall dispose of yours to Morrow if possible will be lower, Shall Ship your flax potts Twine etc in Robothan or Some other Ship that Sails first for your place
Letter – Edward Blackett to Robert Booth – 12 Dec 1710
Dec 12 1710
Dear Sr
My wife is in so great a Concerne for the Dangerous Condition hir of hir Dearest Child that she begs your pardon she cannot write to you we have the best advice this Country affords the Phisitians never Prescribed hir any Phisick, hir Distemper Ime afraid is a deep Consumption she is so very weak that in case the roads were good she is not able to travel but if please god to recover hir strengthe she shall try both Bath & Bristol Water in the Spring she ha
Letter – Edward Blackett to Joseph Green – 12 Dec 1710
December 12 1710
Sr
I rec[eive]d the picture very safe to Newby as allsoe your letter this morneing I can assure you it is no orrignall but only a Copy & not done by Sir Peter lille [?Lely] my wife [struck out: ‘saw the money paid for the Drawing of it and it cost’] knows very Certainly that it cost no more then five pounds so when you come to Newby my wife will satisfie you further
I am Sr Your very humble serv
For Mr Jos Green Merser in Wakefield
Letter – Edward Blackett to Leonard Bentham – 14 Dec 1710
December 14 1710
Honest Mr Bentham
I rec[eive]d your letter and the Olive branch with great satisfaction am glad Mr Loraine followes his business so very Closely he cant complaine for want of Water so I hope he’l make up ten tunn against Christmas when you have any spare time should be very glad to hear from you pray know of Ger[ar]d Dobson how wide the vaine is and how wide she bears ore and how many fathom she is of any other shaft in the feild where Ore was got in my time and give
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 14 Dec 1710
December 14 1710
Honest Jacob
Yours on the 7 gave me great satisfaction pray acq[uain]t me how many fathoms the new forefield where you got ore is from the burne side as allso what wideness your vaine is and how wide she bears ore
I know Mr Featherston will let me have the harth so many dayes in Janury as will Levell up all the my waste ore that is lies ready Drest and the undertakers may have the same time in my month I thinke If you write a line to Mr Featherstone to the same
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 14 Dec 1710
Decem
James
I rec[eive]d yours on the 9th and I hope Mr Featherstone and Reah and the rest of the undertakers will be wiser then to deny <being> their proportions to the rent of the Lead Cellar which will be very Inconsiderable beside my scales and weights are at their service which are my own
Give my service to Mr Featherstone, and acq[uain]t him that I had a letter lately from Jacob peart who writes me that I shall have a small Quantity of waste to smelt up when they ma
Letter – Edward Blackett – 14 Dec 1710
December 14 1710
Sr
We are all very much obligd to you for the concerne you have for my dear daughter Blackets Illness who is so Extream weak that all people thinks it Impossible she should live long I thanke god last night she had a better night then she’s had for a long time for on Munday and Tuesday last she was more likely to die then live am very sorry that you should happen to have the Gout at this time for in case my poor Daughter should die as I thincke she cant possibly live long
Letter – Edward Blackett to Christopher Blackett – 15 Dec 1710
Dec 15 1710
Dear <Kitt>
The <abovesaid> is a Copy of my last I doubt it did not come to your hand because the last carrier brought a barrel of Oysters be sure you send no more for this open weather they will not Keep and the Carrier is very unreasonable for the bringing of them
Your Sister Blacket I thanke god this two dayes has been something better then she was which makes us have some hopes of her recovery I designe in the spring in case she live so long to send
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Blackett – 15 Dec 1710
December 15 1710
Dear Jacke
I rec[eive]d yours the 2d and I shall not be hasty in buying Mr Van Meel a horse to whom give my most humble service I have made very great Inquiry all over Yorkshire and Bishoprisk but not such a horse to be found of that Coulour and shape that Mr Van Meel would have <own> I hope his own horse may be brought of his tricks then no doubt but he will pleas him
Your poor sister Blacket has been so very Dangerously Ill the Phisitians thought she co
Letter – Edward Blackett to John Ward – 17 Dec 1710
Dec 17 1710
Mr Ward
You writ me sometime agoe that John Robson is Inclineable to take Newby and Mulwell If he continue in the same mind I Desire you will come over with him Ime resolved to let it all Except for 5 Meadow Closes and a <Course> pasture they call the Carrs I did write you to this purpose in a former letter but never rec[eive]d any answer from you If he happen to be my tenn[an]t will buy all my Beef and Mutton of him will allwayes bye a score of Sheep at a time and a
Letter – Edward Blackett to Jacob Peart – 18 Dec 1710
Jacob
the above said is a Copy of my last since I rec[eive]d a letter from Ja Mewburne who acq[ain]ts me that he spoke to Mr Featherstone and he told him I was very wellcome to make use of the Mill in January to Smelt up the Small Quantity of Waste ore which I shall have aforehand let me know what moneys you have rec[eive]d of Will Lowe and the dayes of the month; you must give him notice to have moneys ready against my pays and acq[ain]t me what you Judge it may come to I heartily wish
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Lowes – 18 Dec 1710
Honest Will
pray make it your business to get up all the Moneys that is standing out for wood as allso all the rents and Arrears of rents assoon as possibly you can and youl oblige
Your assured friend to serve you
Letter – Edward Blackett to Henry Lodge – 18 Dec 1710
Sr
I have sent you a roule of Brawn which I hope will prove well
My poor Daughter Blacket is in a very weak condition the Phisicians think she cannot possibly continue long she being in a very deep Consumtion and a terrible Cough with it God Almighty Comfort us for hir dear mother I doubt will not be long after hir but we must all submit to god Almightys will and pleasure
I perceve Mr High Sherrif Designes to give a Gray Livery so you need not bespeak me any Blue Cloth in
Letter – Edward Blackett to James Mewburn – 20 Dec 1710
Decr 20 1710
James
Before the rec[eip]t of yours of the 16 in which I rec[eive]d your Bill of Exchange for £100 I gave a small Bill upon you for Eleaven pounds payable to Mr Walter Tackred or his order I cant well Deny Sr Thomas Tanckred a bill twice a year for ten or fifteen pounds and If at any times You be not in cash you may get the moneys of Mr Featherstone the undertakers owes me 44 peices of lead which they sold or shipd with their own lead that came from fallowfeild I do not
Letter – Edward Blackett – 21 Dec 1710
Dec 21
Sr
Inclosed is my Daughter Blackets case drawn up by Doctor Johnson hir Phisician at York I Desire youl do me the favour to Inclose it to the Old G<.nd> & that hel be so kind as to give his Judgement what is fit to be done in hir dangerous condition & youl very much oblige Sr
Your faithfull humble servt
Letter – Edward Blackett to William Millington – 21 Dec 1710
Honest Captain
My poor Daughter Blacket is somewhat better than she was tho so weak that she cannot stand by hir self and most people thinks she cannot possibly live long she has a great Desire to see your wife so my wife Desires you will let hir come to Newby & shall send horses for hir on Munday the 2d of January so they will be with you the day after it is a very dead time of the year so that you can neither build nor bowle and should take it as a favour if you would accompany hir
Letter – Edward Blackett to Christopher Blackett – 21 Dec 1710
Dec 21 1710
Dear Kitt,
Our Chockalet is almost all gone so my wife desires you will send her down 20 pound by the post carrier it must not be all <Nutt> nor <p’fumed> but the ordinary sort that is made up well biggar which she likes the best. When you come into the Country bring my acct with you that we may set straight let me know about what time you designe to be here. Your poor sister Blackett so dangerously ill that most people think she cannot possibly live long wit
