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Letter – Nicholas Walton to James Wood – 7 Jan 1737
To Mr James Wood Depy Treasurer of the Royall Hospitall at Greenwich at the Victuallg
Office on Tower Hill London
Rav: Castle January 7th 1736/7
Sr
I had the pleasure of your faviour of the 11th of Decr advising me of the Receipt of mine of the Sixth wch I Included you Seven Bills for £420. 8. 51/2 for wch you wd have had my Earlier acknowledgemt of thanks had I not waited till I had Something of busyness to give you the Trouble of.
Herein I Send you four bills amounting
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 8 Jan 1737
To William Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle Janry 8 1736/7
Sr
Since my last the Severall Minutes of the Board have come to my hand in Course, the Contents whereof Shall be duly regarded.
I have Inclosed Sent you my Cash Accot for last Month on which remains a Ballance of One Hundred & Eighty five Pounds Eight Shillings & a penny Farthing in favour of the Hospl. I have Since reced abt Two hundred & Eighty Pounds & have remitted Mr Wood Bills for Four hundred &
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Hugh Boag – 21 Jan 1737
Ravensworth Castle Janry 21st 1736/7
Mr Boag
You will find in the Accot that I Sent Mr Corbett of Receipts & payments to the 14 Novr last that the Sallary due to Mr Johnson & Bunting is Charged together in one Sum to Each at £8 per Annum & Mr Pearson ½ a Year £4. The Moor maister also £20 due Martinmas Last for wch Sums You say there is no Receipts
Mr Johnsons & Mr Buntings Sallary you know is Each £20 per Ann. One halfe of wch due mayday 1736 was pd but not
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 22 Jan 1737
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Rav: Castle January 22d 1736/7
Sr
I hope tomorrow’s post will bring me the Confirmations of the Sevl Farms that were not before Confirmed, on wch I shall acquaint the Severall farmers but I expect to meet wth some difficulty from those who lose their Farmes, as some of ‘em threaten that they will not goe of this year, as they have been kept so long on uncertainty I shall however do my best
Mr Boag’s being absent so long has been a great hardship upon me.
Report – Amos Barnes – 1 Feb 1737
Febry 1st 1736/7
Wee whose Names are here Underwritten have taken a View of Jasmond Colliery and finds the said Colliery wrought in a fair and regular Manner adjoining to the Haugh called the Mill Haugh to the South East of Stobs Hall where we have found by lineing sixteen places or boards wrought towards that part called the Mill Haugh (Viz) Nine of which is wrought to the burn called Iwesburn which is called the Boundary betwixt Stobs Hall and the above mentioned Mill Haugh but they have
Letter – Robert Ellison to Joseph Pearson – 4 Feb 1737
Mr Pearson
Newcastle Feb 4 1736/7
As the open Mines at Keswick are among others Lett to Collel Liddell and you mentioned that there was a person who pretended to have made a hopefull discovery. I give you the trouble of this Letter desiring that you would acquaint the Man (I think you called him Hetherington) that if he will go to Whitehaven & to be free & open to Mr Hicks in declaring what he knows and makes it appe
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 25 Feb 1737
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle Febry 25th 1736/7
Sr
Inclosed we send you are Cash Accot for last Month on which is a Ballance of Forty seven pounds five Shillings & three farthings in our faviour. We hope the Directors will excuse us for so late Sending it, as the attendance upon the necessary busyness of the Estate has been the Occasion of it.
Mr Gray is preparing a Draught of the Lease of the Lead Mines which will be sent you as soon as it is Finished by him &
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John King – 27 Feb 1737
To Mr John King
Ravensworth Castle February 27 1736/7
Your Accot of the Confirmations of the Severall Farmes at Keswick came to hand in Course for which you have our thanks; but we are concern’d to find you have gone contrary to the Boards Confirmation, & instead of those Tennants they confirmed that you Should Confirm others. It is what you nor we have no right to doe, nor must we upon any Accot make any alterations unless there is an apparent hazard in
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 1 Mar 1737
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle March 1st 1736/7
Sr
By William Laycock the London Carryer was Sent last Saturday the 26 February last, Seventeen Skinns of Vellum on which is Mapped a part of the Derwentwater Estate & One Skinn with the Severall Scales by wch those planns were made. They are in a double Case directed for you at the Pay Office in Broad Street, & will be with you on Saturday the 12th Inst.
Below is the particulars of the abovementioned planns, &
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Joseph Pearson – 4 Mar 1737
Rav Castle March 4th 1736/7
To Mr Pearson
Inclosed are 5 Recets 4 of which are for fee farm or other Rts paid out of Keswick, but when you paid them did not take the Recets of the proper persons, The other is for One years Sallary due to you Marts last I mean that pt of it that the Hospital pays for they pay you £8 per Ann. & we pay you £4 This you are to Signe your Selfe, And get the other Signed by the proper Bayliffs or Receiv
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 11 Mar 1737
To William Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle 11 March 1736/7
Sir
We observe the Boards order relating that part of the Derwentwater Estate proper to be Sold, And in Obediance to their Commands begg leave to acquaint you that the Estates most proper to be Sold are Castleridge & Derwentwr & Thornthwaite Manors, The Manor of Newlands and Whittonstall and the Woods upon the Estates of Dilston Thornbrugh Coastley and Langley Barony.
We begg to Referr you to ours of the 22d Febr
Letter – Hugh Boag to James Hunter – 18 Mar 1737
To James Hunter Esqr Auditor
Ravensworth Castle 18th March 1736/7
Sir
Inclosed are 15 Receipts which are Signed by the persons you Required and I hope you will find these Answer the Lists I Left with you
The Recets for the Fee Farme Rents pd out of Whittle Estates is only for 11½ whereas in the Cash its sometimes enter’d 15½ The wch is pd by the Tennts of Whittle in at the Duke of Somersetts Court while Sitting for which they gett no Recets but you have the Tennts recets fo
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 18 Mar 1737
To William Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle March 18th 1736/7
Sir
Inclosed herein we Send you our Cash Accot for last Month, on wch Remains a Ballance of £99.6.73/4 in our favour.
We have Lett Dilston Hall & Gardens for one Year to James Thompson at £6 & Gills Close to Edwd Winsop for one Year at £3 and the other Grounds wch Mr Thomlinson was to have a long with the Hall James Thompson & partners are to have at the Rent they formerly paid which we hope the Directo
Letter – Nicholas Walton – 20 Mar 1737
Mr Ellison & we have talked Severall things this day with regard to this Lease, wch he has observed to you & to wch we begg leave to refer, but we begg to recommend it to you Sir not to be too pressing for any alterations as we think there is no Covt that you can Suffer by.
We are Honrd Sirs Yours etc
W & B
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 27 Mar 1737
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle March 27 1737
Sr
Inclosed we Send you Mr Watsons Accot of Arrears & an Accot of Redheads goods of Whittles Sold wch the Clerk of the Cheque writes us he wants.
We forgot to acquaint you that Mr Errington of Beaufront Claimed an old Lead mine which he Says is on Lease of which Some years are yett to Expire It is in alstonmoore but we believe was not Claimd by him at the forfeiture
We are S
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 29 Mar 1737
Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle March 29 1737
Sr
We reced the Boards Minutes of the 23 March Inst wth the Petition of Mrs Ann Clavering of Scremerston.
The method of trying for Coale in these parts is not according to the Success; but is by boring at a Stipulated price, according to the deepness of such boring. & it is common to make Tryall in two or three places. We propose to try in three places each 30 fathams or 60 Yards the Expence whereof you have as followeth Viz
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Joseph Pearson – 8 Apr 1737
Mr Pearson Ravensworth Castle April 8 1737
Mr Boag will be at Keswick the 21 of this Month in the evening and will receive the Keswick Rents the day following he will stay with you only two days so that pray have every thing ready for him
I am Concerned to hear of the Accident of burning the Kill at Keswick not only on Accot of the Loss to the Hospitall but for the Loss the Owner of the Corn Suffered as well as the Disapointment to the poo
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 10 Apr 1737
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle April 10th 1737
Sr
Mr Isaac Thompson sent you by the London Carrier on Satterday the Second Instant the remainder of the mapps of the Derwentwater Estate wch I hope will come safe & be to the Satisfaction of the Board, there was no agreemt made for the Carriage of them.
Mr Thompson Complains of great hardships from his not having Surveyed the Commons of Alston Moore Keswick etc as expected when the agreemt was made as Also from the Troub
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 17 Apr 1737
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle April 17th 1737
Sir
Inclosed we Send you a Draught for a Lease of one of the Derwentwater Farmes, which has been perused by Lawyer Gray, & after it has met with the approbation of the Board, & that the Directors have been pleased to give the necessary directions as to the Engrossing, we will take care to Send you are Draughts weekly or as it Shall be otherwise approved of, in which you will be pleased to give us proper Orders. One thin
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 22 Apr 1737
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle April 22d 1737
Sir
We reced yours with the Boards Minutes of the 13th Inst which we duely observe, as all so a Letter Signed by Reynold & Thos Corbett complaing of Allerwash being lett to other persons & of the hard usage they have mett with from us
In answer thereto Wm Watson, John Watson, Thos Dodds, Reynd Corbett & William Corbett Confirmed Tennants of Alerwash Township at the Generall Court of the 4th Novr last & the 18th
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Airey – 30 Apr 1737
To John Airey Esqr
Ravensworth Castle April 30 1737
Sr
I reced Yours but was from home when it Came, on Some Busyness wch I unexpectly had Orders for last Post; & that prevented me givg You an earlyer Answer.
I observe what you Say as to Mr Aynesley & provided there can be no advantages taken I think it as well to acquaint the Board, before Ejectments are Served but I would not by any means have us by a delay give him any Advantage, for it is plain he will take all he ca
Letter – Hugh Boag to John King – 3 May 1737
To Mr John King Attorney at Law
Ravensworth Castle May 3d 1737
Sr
According to my Promise I waited on Mr Busby abt the halfe Years Rent in arrear at Keswick wch the Tennants Reckoned that he had got but he (Utterly denys) or positively Says he knows nothing of their Paying beforehand & bid one look at his last Acquittance by which he will abide & that what Rent he reced last was to Martinmas 1731 from which time the Tennts will have to pay a halfe years Rent for every halfe Year
Letter – Nicholas Walton – 5 May 1737
An Appraizmt of the Goods & Chattles of Gerrard Readhead taken this fifth day of May 1736
[In the margin:] The Original Sent the Board the 6th May 1737
Names of the places of abode of the Buyers
Appraismt
Sold for
Newburne One Red Cow & Calf £ 3 - - £ 4 5 -
Bearl One Guild Cow 2 2 - 2 16 -
Newburne One Broch’d Red Cow 2 - - 3 12 -
Left wth One Black Cow & Calfe 3 5 - 4 11 -
G Readhead
Dam Mills
Letter – Nicholas Walton – 6 May 1737
Severall Persons are Drs for Dues of Lead Oare as followeth viz
The Governour & Compy for Smelting down Lead etc £716.4.3 1/2 being for the Dues of Lead Oare raised in the yrs 1735 & 1736 sold & delivered their Agent Mr Abram Watson as per the Moor Masters Accot Viz
268 1/2 Bings of Bouse Oare at 42/6 £570 11 3
77 1/8 Bings of Cutting Oare at 37/6 144 12 2 1/2
One Guinea over by Agreement 1 1 -
£7
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 6 May 1737
To Mr Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle May 6th 1737
Sr
We recd yours with the Minutes of the Board of the 20th of April last and Mr Maules remarks upon our Conduct in the management of the Derwentwater Estate which we are Sorry he has had the Trouble of and that he has had reason to trouble the Board therewith as we can asure them and you of our great desire to Serve the Honble Board wth all the integri
