Novem 15th 1729
Mr Wm Robson
Rob Colley tells me you have got nothing yet of Geo. Hall and that it is believed he is but in a bad way, As there is at present Goods sufficient on the ground to satisfy for there half years Rent due at Mart.s Last before ) if he pay you not a years rent immediately to have a Strict eye upon them & if there should be any likelihood of his seling them ordering them of the ground do you or Wm Bowman seize for £67.10.0
JR
NewCa 18 Novem 1729
To Mr Robinson
I am with yours of the 25 ulto wherein you say you compute there is due from you £20 wch you will pay & no more, this is a way of settling acco.s that I never befor met with the Like, How well your last Lre agrees with yours of the 15 Sept 1728 if you have a Copy I pray you’ll consider, I would advise you to let this affair be amicably compromised before Friday next & in order thereto desire you’l come over & bring with you a note of the Di
Newcastle 25 November 1729
To Mr Clark
Inclosed is Mr Peter Bernardeaus Bill on Messrs Simonds for Six hundred twenty one pounds 15s the receipt of whereof please to acknowledge. I have lately sent Mr Cosh silver to the value of £392 5s 11 ¼ wch I [resume he will pay you on demand. My D Tankervill is Dr for lead £334 6 ¼ wch money I wish you could receive in London, hoping the Laime [same?] with the above would answer the most heavy demands and make you easie till about cand
Newca the 2 Dec 1729
To Mr Cha Clark
Sr The post being just going have only times to desire youl please to own the receipt of the enclos’d for £64.15..6 to
Sr your most O serv.t JR
NewC 12 Dec 1729
Madam
In answer to your lre about your half years annuity due the 11 last month if you please to send to Mr Clark in ten days time it will be paid. If I could possibly have procured you a bill that <ood> have been due sooner should have sent it you but no such thing is at present to be got in this Town Yr most O servt JR
NewC 12 Dec 1729
Sir
I am favoured with your of the 2d & had a Lre of the Same date from Mrs Blackett about her annuity, who you must give me leave & refer back to you, for I yesterday received Ld Tankervilles money, bills are so scarce that I cannot procure you return for any part thereof at present but if I cannot speedily must send you up what you please to order by the carrier. Mr Allgood tells me that in order to pay Mr Blackett he had desired you to make up the £64 .15.0 remit
Newc 30th Dem’r 1729
To Mr Robt Mackmorran
Sr, I have shiped on board the Cooper of Londn Thos Miller master a Coach belonging to Mr Blackett who is now at Calverly in his way to London, Inclosed is a bill of Lading for it, I beg on receipt hereof you will be so kind as send for one Cockdale a Coachmaker in Silver st near great Marlborough Street to take care of it as soon as the ship arrives & if you find him out b y this Direction which I am not sure is right you may deliver him the
To Mr Cha: Clark Newcastle 2d Jan 1729
Sr, inclosed is Fenwick & Waters bill on Mr John Lee Quesne for £150 wch wth the bill for £64-15-0 Sent you in my lre dated 2d ult on Mr Richard Jackson I desire you’l please to acknowledge the Receipt of
Mr Allgood gives his service to you & desires you’l let Mr Denton draw out an acct of what Bills you have been paid since Sr Wms death, also a list of those remaining unpaid which he says should have in order to prepare an Answe
To Mess Cook & Abell Newc 6 Janry 1729
On Saturday last I sent by Crabtree the Lond. Carrier directed for you tow pieces of fine Sylvery of three hundred an forty three Os a quarter wch at 5s and 9d comes to ninety eight pounds 13 s 8¼ I desire you’l place the said Sum to the Credit of Messr Allgood & Clarkes acct & own the Receipt of the silver Sr yours J Richmond
To Mr Armstrong Newc 6 Janry 1729
On saturday in the Evening I received yours setting forth the Dispute between you and Fra. Little & partners, the had been with me that Morning, & related the whole affair so very little Different from what you have done, that I convinced them you had done no more than your Duty in letting their Bargain to others, and what if I had been present I would actually have done, so that I doubt not but their are returned with so resigned & peacable a Dis
to Waltr Blackett Esq Newcastle 10 Janry 1729
Sir, I have received your lre of the 7th & shall observe your orders therein concerning the Horse. Mr Allgood presents his service & bids me acquaint you that here being no person at present in the Country to apply to about adding your Life in the lease for Weardale lead mines, desires on your getting to Town that you’ll please to get Mr Clark to treat with the Bishop on that head, & when you have got his Answer that you will p
Messrs Baudier & Hunter Newcastle 10 Janry 1729
Sirs, Inclosed is Pillin the London Carriers note for fifty three pounds six shillings, wch sum when received you’l place to the Credit of Mr Isaac Hunter’s acct & I desire you will own the receipt hereof by the return of post to Yours J Richmond
To Mr Armstrong January 21 1729
Sr, I have yours of the 20th & am very Glad you are now at quiet, & that things go on so well, pray let me know pr first opportunity, how you pressed in the Ginsump and whether there is any thing in what I have heard suggested, that the Gin is overpowered, & not only so, but also that the Level being sludged or run sets bacl part of the water against the Wheel, the latter I can give no credit so <fo> if any such thing had happened it would
to Waltr Blackett Esq Newcastle 30 Janry 1729
Sr, I have sent pr Crabtree the London Carriers, a Box directed to Mr Richard Cook Goldsmith in Forster Lane, containing 1023 ounces ¼ wrought Plate, the Particulars of wch are within mentioned. I have been as Exact as possible in weighing it, but as to the real value of part of it I am not a Judge. Mr Cook is a Person we have always dealt with for our Bullion, & is I believe the properest Person to treat, or advise with on this affair.
to Mr Richd Cook Newcastle 30 Janry 1729
Sr, I have this day sent by Crabtree the London carrier a Box of wrought Plate directed for you belonging to Walter Blackett Esq wch I request you’l please to send for for to the Carriers Inn on Saturday the Saturday the 14 Feby & take care of it, till you see Mr Blackett or have his directions concerning it, the Box being of great value. I beg your particular care & desire you’l let me know when it comes to hand. Iam Sr J. Richmd
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To Mr Xpher Denton, Newc 3 Febry 1729
Sr, I have yours of the 28th ult & tho I am satisfied Mr Clark & you must be made very uneasie by Sr Wms Creditrs I do assure you, it is not in my Power to help it, for I have not £150 of the Trustees money in my hand, & tho here is money owing by the best men in Town to the amount of a £1100, I can’t get any part of it, either in bills or Money, so that if Mr Clark should have drawn on me at any Short date I shall not know how to answer
To Walter Blackett Esq. Newcastle February the 6th 1729
Sr, I have not yet got any money of Mr. Ogle, but inclose you a bill on Mr. John Gould for one hundred pounds, the receipt of wch please to advise. Sr & c JR
Jan 27 Jo <Airey> & co on Jno Gould Esq payable to J R’s order 30 days after date for 100l
To Walter Blackett Esq. Newcastle February the 17 1729
Sr, Upon renewing the Lease of Weardale Mines with the late Bishop Crew in 1706, & putting in the late Sr Wm Blackett life, I find there was paid no more than 300 guineas besides the fees which came to about £30, Mr Allgood is of Opinion the present Bishop, will on the present Occasion insist on £1000 at least wch I am humbly of Opinion, concidering his Ldshps age, & the Declension of those groves from what they were at the
To Walter Blackett Esq. N Ca Febry 24 1729
Hond Sr, I received your lre of the 19th inclosing one to Mr Allgood who is now here, I am very sorry you should have any trouble with the Bill I sent you on Mr Gold both he and the Drawer are very Sufficient & I doubt not its being punctually paid, but if it should not before the 3d March please to return it, I shall take care to pay your Bill to Kennedy at Sight. I was last week at Wallington collecting those Rents, where I find owing about
To Mr Robson Marck 14 1729/30
On receipt hereof go to Fenwick Bowman & see what malt he has & at what price he will sell, for Mr Blackett has ordered the Cellars to be filled, tho I fear the season is too far advanced to get any quantity of strong Beer brewed, I can buy old malt here, made of the best Lincolnshire Barley for 10s 6d our bowl wch is three Bushels & as I take it will be best for Strong Beer of wch I would have three Brewings you must immediately order Tom the Miller
To Richard Ridley Esq March 16 1729/30
Sr, Having reason from some former Passages to apprehend that whenever I am not qualified to Answer your Lead Commissions Mr Crow may zealously misrepresent what passes between us, of which very probably there has been a late instance, when he was with me last week for a parcell of Lead. My intention hereby is to undeceive you in that particular, by acquainting you that I am always ready to Supply you, on the same Terms I would any other Gentleman in
To Walter Blackett Esq. Newcastle 17 Mar 1729/30
Hond Sr, Since my last I have the Favour of your tow lres the contents of wch will be duely Observ’d the inclosed in your former I deliver’d Mr Allgood who with his family removed yesterday to Hexham. Trading is but yet dull & particularly the Lead trade for wch here is little Demand, the price is at £15 10s 0d pr Fother, but the Road & weather continues so bad that wee can get but little to Markett. Winship having taken in mos
31 Mar 1730 Wrote Mr Blackett that the Lead mines are flourishing that the last years proceeds were about £6000 Sent him the advertisement of this years <Plates> that Mr Ridley has been in an Ague but on the mend but on the mending hand, Tho Winship can’t now go out with the dogs witht giving Offence <have> suffer him to go to Wallington without Direction & c
To Mr Clark Mar 31st 1730
Sr, The deadness of trade & badness of weather wch has nitherto presented our getting the lead from the mills are the reasons I have not been able to make you the Returns I expected, but as both begin now to be on the mending hand I hope shortly to be qualified to remit your Money sufficient to Answr the interest in arrears to Guys Extors & all other present Demands, Inclosed is Joseph Watsons bill on Messrs Cantillen for three hundred twenty one pounds f
To Mr Denton March 01 1730
Sr, I have by this post sent Mr Clark a bill on Messrs Cantellen for £321 4s 8d If he should not be in town please to present the bill as soon as it come to hand for acceptance & advise the receipt thereof Iam &c JR