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Letter – Joseph Richmond to Walter Blackett – 3 Apr 1730
To Walter Blackett Esq. Aprl 3d 1730
Hond Sr, Sr John Swinburns Stwed would not allow Finlay to go to Wallington, having, as he tells Wm Robson, no orders from Sr John for so doing, wee are making a trial in Smith’s field wch is so promising that I hope wee shall have no occasion for his advise. Tomorrow shall put the old harpsichord on board the Wye Indian, Capt. Whitfield, for London, who as soon as he arrives will order it to the Dog tavern in Billingsgate, who ever calls for it need
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Thomas Strother – 10 Apr 1730
To Mr Strothers April 10 1730
Sr, I have this Day sent by the Leeds Carriers directed for Sir Walter a piece of Holland as ordered by your Lre 15 Febry last, the price is below, I have done to the best of my power in the purchase but if my Lady thinks it too dear or in any Respect dislikes it I desire it may be returned, I shall hope to hear from you on the Receipt of it, wch wth my most humble Service to Sr Walter & Lady <El…> is all at present offers to Sir & c JR
Linnin
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Christopher Denton – 28 Apr 1730
Mr Denton Newcastle 28 April 1730
Sr, I am favoured with yours of the 7 & 23 the first owning Mr Clark’s receipt of Jo. Watson’s bill wch I hope will be paid before this comes to hand, the Latter requiring a return of £378 5s 0d to pay off the mortgage on Winlington Colliery wch will shortly be made good to Mr Clark, I shall take care to answer his bill for the money you say he has taken up & you may with my best respects assure Mr Clark that as soon as I can raise money I will
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Isabella Blackett – 28 Apr 1730
To Mrs Isabella Blackett Newcastle 28 April 1730
Madam, agreeable to yours to Mr Allgood I have by this post sent Mr Christ Denton Clerk to Mr Cha. Clark a bill for £100 payable at three days sight & desired him on Receipt to wait upon you with it, the Bill will be punctually paid & will answer your half years annuity due 24 next month, the reason of my not sending it to you is Mrs Netherburns telling me this morning she was not certain the former directions to Mr Reeves was rig
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Walter Blackett – 28 Apr 1730
To Walter Blackett Esq. Newcastle 28 Aprl 1730
Hond Sr, I have advised Mr Robson to take grass for the horses that are in the Parks, in order to make the most of the parks he can, for wee always reckon a horses grass in the parks at 45s & he may get grass for them on Harwood where they will be very safe at 8d a stint, The Houghton Gray Gelding, & Mr Crosses gelding continues down right lame, & I believe will never be of any service to you. I should therefore think it most for
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Lancelot Allgood – 29 Apr 1730
To Mr Allgood Newcastle 29 Aprl 1730
Sr, I own the receipt of yours pr Jonathan with the sum of £200 wch will be placed to your Acct. Mr Howard is not in Town but is expected this Evening, when I shall deliver him your Letter & require his answer. By last post I returned Mrs Blackett’s half year annuity in a bill payable at three days sight; & by the next post shall return Mr Clark’s bill to answr Lady Barbrys annuity. Pray what shall I do with Tho: Robson of Sunderland who
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 29 Apr 1730
To Mr Hunter 29 Aprl 1730
Sr, Yesterday I contracted with Mr Bernardeau for 1500 pieces of WB Lead to be d[elivere]d in 14 days, I am therefore to sollicite your application in forwarding to the half way about 1000 pieces of Common lead I mean what has no Silver in it with all expedition & also a proportional quantity of slags but pray take care that your order to Dickinson herein, Occasion not his sending away no I Lead for by that the Refining house will be Idle, I am in hopes the f
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Grindall – 29 Apr 1730
To Mr Grindall 29 Aprl 1730
Sr, I have yours of this date, & it is very inconvenient for me, to comply wth your request, have nevertheless for this time to oblige you, done it, by sending you pr Bearer the sum of ten pounds as desired, I would desire you for the future when you have occasion for money to apply to Mr Armstrong when he comes down for subsistance and I shall not be backward to qualify him to gratify your wch will be a more regular way, & better correspond wth my affa
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Walter Blackett – 2 May 1730
To Walter Blackett Esq. May 2 1730
Hond Sr, I received a Lre last past from Mr Edmondson the sadler, signifying your directions to send up your lady’s side Saddle & your own embroidered furniture to be altered, I have this day shipt the same in a Box directed to you on Board the John & Thomas The <Hurry> muster, The ship will saild the first opportunity & will be heard of at either Blacks or Whittakers wharf, you will please to order the box to be called for, or give M
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Lancelot Allgood – 5 May 1730
To Mr Allgood Newcastle 5 May 1730
Sr, Alderman Ridley is desirous of letting us have his Little Gill Oar & to be paid in Lead, If you approve of it, please to Order Mr Hunter to conferr with Jno Vickars about it, & if they can with convenience smelt it separately at Allenheads Miln then to report to you their Opinion of that Oar and how much of it will make a Fother of Lead, As there is little probability of Mr Weatherley’s going forwards in Rookhope & thereby laying off th
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Robert Macmorran – 8 May 1730
To Mr Robt Macmorran Newcastle 8 May 1730
Sr, I desire you will buy me for Mr Blacketts use Twenty casks of boneashes I would not have the Casks to hold above 18 gallons for then they will be usefull in our Litharge trade, you need not be hasty in buying them but take the best Opportunity for if they come to hand in 5 or 6 weeks time they will Answer our Demand I am &c JR
Let them be marked WB & please to advise me on the shipping them
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Peter Wather – 8 May 1730
To Mr Peter Wather at the Three Crown Wharf London Newcastle 8 May 1730
Sr, I advise you’l buy me for Mr Blacketts use Twenty casks of Boneashes each Cask Containing about 18 gallons you need not be hasty in buying them but take the best Opportunity for if they are here in 7 weeks it will Answer our demand. Let them be marked WB & draw on me at sight for the amount, mentioning in your bill for 20 casks of boneashes for the use of Walter Blackett Esq &c JR
Letter – Joseph Richmond to John Airey – 9 May 1730
To Mr Airey May 9 1730
Sir, For Answer to yours of yesterdays date I am ready to pay the fee farm rents for Rothley Rugley & Kenton that are in arrears wch is as below I am &c JR
1 yrs fee farm for Rothley due Michs 1729 0.16.8
Do for Rugley or Cambo do 0. 6.8
Do for Kenton do 0.4
£1. 7.4
Pray when am I to call for Longwitton arrears?
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Thomas Strother – 15 May 1730
To Mr Tho Strother Newcastle 15 May 1730
Sr, I shall deliver this Evening to the Leads Carrier three dozen of French wine & a Dozn Bottles Arrack pursuant to Sir Walter’s order the charge as below, six bottles of the Arrack are sealed wch I take to be much better than the others & is all I could get of the Sort Inclosed you have my bill on Sir Walter for Seventeen pounds 5s 5d the amount of the Holland wine and arrack ach you may return either by the Carrier or in any other manno
Letter – Joseph Richmond to John Bacon – 15 May 1730
To Jno Bacon Esq Newcastle 15 May 1730
Sr, I have recd your favour of the 13th offering my Ma[ste]r your Wessonhope lead Oar, for wch I thank you. For answer I shall be very ready to buy it of you if you’l be pleased to accept of a price we can work it at & I think wee can give as much for it as any other person can offer, you are sensible I doubt not that Lead is now fallen from the price it bore last year & I wish I had no reason to fear it will still be lower. You will pleas
Letter – Joseph Richmond to John Bacon – 15 May 1730
To Jno Bacon Esq Newcastle 15 May 1730
Sr, In answer to your Favour of the 13th, as soon as you are pleased to order down 334 ps Wessenhope Lead Ore & that Mr Dalton our Operator at Blaydon can make an assay of it you shall then know the Utmost wee can afford to give for it. I’m glad Wessonhop is likely to turn to Accot but as to Lead keeping up its price I doubt it, having too much reason to fear it will prove a falling Comodity. When the accot of the partnership mines are brot me i
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Charles Clark – 5 Jun 1730
To Mr Clark Newcastle the 5th June 1730
Sr, Inclosed I send you four bills of <Exitre> for the Sum of thirteen hundred & ten pounds 10 shillings and threepence as follows:
May 15 1730 Fenwick & Wakes on Sr Jno Wms at 25 days £ 100
May 19 1730 Pr Bernardeau on Mr Cha. La Porte
at 2 usuance £ 400
Do do do as above £ 600
Do do do as above £ 210.10.3
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Rudd – 5 Jun 1730
To Mr Rudd Newcastle 5 May 1730
Sr, I have recd your Acct for the Month of May from wch I note only 30 ps of lead sent from the mill, pray is not the way yet passable or what is the Reason the Carriage is not set on at this Leasure time when people have nothing else to do. I recommend it to you to hasten away all the Lead to Markett without loss of time before harvest comes on, & if there is any thing that prevents the Carryers setting on, immediately apply to Mr Hunter to remove the
Letter – Joseph Richmond to John Bacon – 9 Jun 1730
To Jno Bacon Esq 9 June 1730
Sr, I have rec’d your Lre of the 27 ult & agreeable thereto have sent to Bollyhope Mill for a trial of the Lead, wch Mr Dalton tells me is pretty near the same in goodness wth the last parcel wee bought of you. When you consider how hard a Bargain the last was, the fall of Leda since the last year near 20s. a Fothr the present small demand & that it stills seems to be a falling Comodity I doubt not but you will think £17 10s 0d a Fother as much as o
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 10 Jun 1730
To Mr Hunter Newcastle 10 June 1730
I must desire you will severely reprimand your Dukesfield smelters for not only ill <screening> but also putting lumps of slags into the pig pan wch will certainly be attended with the ill consequence of deprecating our lead & giving it an ill Character at all marketts. The lead markt T. J. & C. is all bad but the last most notoriously so, whoever he is that’s the smelter he ought to be made an example to the Dist[rict], hanging is too g
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Cook & Abell – 12 Jun 1730
To Messrs Cook and Abell Newcastle 12 June 1730
Srs, The small quantity of Sylver wee have extracted since the last parcel I sent you has as usuall been consumed by our Sylversmiths here on acct of the Plate given in this Country & sold to them on more advantageous terms than sending it to London at 5s 9d, wch I hope you have no reason to Complain of, I am very well assured the Gentlemen I am concerned for had rather deal wth you than any other for the Remainder of our Qantity & I
Letter – Joseph Richmond to John Bacon – 3 Jul 1730
To Jno Bacon Esq Newcastle 3 July 1730
Sr, I am D[ebto]r to yours of the 23d ult & am sorry thereby to find wee differ so much in our Opinion of the present value of your Wessonhope oar lead, I heartily wish you may get £18 10s 0d for it but am well assured that he who now gives it will find his Mistake; I should be very Glad to conclude a Bargain with you ready to give you as much as any other can afford but cannot accept of it on the Terms you expect
I am with best Respects Sr yo
Letter – Joseph Richmond – 9 Jul 1730
July 9 1730, sent up 1 doz ½ claret 1 dozn port, 2 dozn ale, 3 bottles brandy to Allenheads against Mr Blackets going up & wrote Mr Armstrong to hasten the Reckoning & qual[if]y ano[the]r to give warning that those who come not to reckon will be postpon’d till another pay, but that he must reckon for such that there may be made a Clear account & no Omissions brought in afterwards where the reckoning and qua[rterly] accts are finish’d to make out his general account & another
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Christopher Denton – 14 Jul 1730
To Mr Denton Newcastle 14 July 1730
Sr, I have before me yours of the 9th signifying the mistake of ten pounds in the Body of Mr Bernardeau’s bill on mr laPorte, wch I am surprized I never discovered especially when I took copy of the Bill I inclos’d send you another of the same date for £210 10s 3d wch I desire you will carry to Mr. La: Porte for acceptance & at the same time take wth you the first bill, let him see his acceptation cut off or cancelled, & pray fail not in ret
Letter – Joseph Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 14 Jul 1730
To Mr Hunter Newcastle 14 July 1730
Sr, I am oblig’d to repeat my Intreaties that you will send me in the Miln accounts at least to Xmas last without loss of time, You know there has been none d’d since Lady day gone twelve months to wch time the pay was made. If any enquiry is made into Affairs this will justly be looked upon as too loose proceedings for I am not able to finish the last years account for want of those three Qarters in arrear at Xmas wch I again desire you will Immedia
