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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Hugh Boag – 28 Nov 1736
To Mr H Boag
Ravensworth Castle Novr 28th 1736
Mr Boag
I Recd yours of the 23d Inst & Observe the Mistake in the Deales pd for to Mr Pearson which was 19 in Number at 14d & it is only a Mistake in the Coppying, I have Mr Pearsons Voucher from the person he baught them of.
I shall be Sorry for Mrs Clavering if she does not prevail in Scremerston Colliery, for as she has saved a good deal of Money & a verry active woman she is a Much better Tennt than Rippeth and par
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 5 Dec 1736
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle Decr 5th 1736
Sr,
Mr Potts of Throckley whose Farme was Confirmed to him at £210 per Annum Rent at the last General Court being Supposed to be in mean Circumstances. I have Demanded Security of him for the paymt of the rent & for performance of Covenants to be Incerted in his Lease.
Yeasterday he brought to me one Mr Sharper of Callerton whose Circumstances is very good who Offers to be bound for him on this Condition that he be
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 6 Dec 1736
To Wm Corbett
Sr Ravensworth Castle Decr 6th 1736
Inclosed I send you the Accot of Recets & payments from the 14th to the 30th November last, upon Accot of the Derwentwater Estate by wch there reman’d then in my hand Two Hundred & Fifty Eight Pounds Nineteen Shillings & Ninepence Farthing.
Within this month I have Recd about Two Hundred pounds & have this day Inclosed to Hercules Bake
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Hercules Baker – 6 Dec 1736
To Hercules Baker Esqr
Sr Ravh Castle Decr 8th 1736
Inclosed I send you Seven Bills amounting to Four Hundred and twenty Pounds Eight Shillings & 51/2 upon the Accots of the Rents of the Derwentwater Estates & for the use of Greenwich Hospital. I sent you the 13 Novr last Bills for £524.13.3 wch you did not acknowledge your Recept of but I make no doubt but they came safe. These
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 14 Dec 1736
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle Decemr 14 1736
Sr
Inclosed I Send you an abstract of what proposals I have reced since the last Advertizment and also a list taken from the abstract of the best & most Substantial Bidders with whom it may be proper to Confirm, as I verrily believe no more offers will be made for any of those Farmes
You will Observe the Severall Shapes in wch I have h
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Timothy Wrangham – 17 Dec 1736
To Mr Wrangham
Ravensworth Castle Decr 17th 1736
Sr
I have yours of the 14th Inst before me & in Answer I observe that Sentance is given in faviour of Mr Moore in the Cause dependg between him & Mr Wood, but that I am no way Surprizd at, as I always expected it woud be so in the Court of Durham.
Some time agoe the Commissrs of the Hospital agreed to espouse Mr Wood in this Cause & determined then to prosecute an Appeal to the Ecclesiastical Court of York at tha
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Airey – 17 Dec 1736
To John Airey Esqr
Ravensworth Castle Decr 17th 1736
Sr
I have had all my time taken up in the Derwentwater affair, that I had to spare from the Business of Sr H.L. & the Colll wch has prevented me waiting upon you Since the Courts were held to acquaint you wth Somethings Necessary for you to know, & as I doubt I can’t have time to See you till next week I give you the Trouble of this
In answer to yours of the 24th of Octor & mine of the Same Date the Board were
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Rev Richardson – 17 Dec 1736
To the Revd Mr Richardson
Dear Sr Ravensworth Castle Decemr 17 1736
I was favoured with yours some time after its date at a time when I was was in the greatest of our hurry with the Derwentwater Tennants, on the Last advertizmt which hindred me from answering it in Course.
What you request as to Mr Bulman I have no manner of Objection to provided it no way Interfered with the Hospitalls Tennants at Scremmerston.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Charles Busby – 17 Dec 1736
To Mr Chas Busby
Ravensworth Castle Decemr 17 1736
Sr
I was favoured with yours of the 10 Inst wherein you desire to know if I have any orders for the Delivery of Household Goods at Dilston. In Answer to wch Mr Boag & I were Commanded at a meeting at Salters Hall the 4th August last to deliver all the goods & Furniture in Dilston house (except what were fixed to the Freehold & the writings & other papers found in three Chests) to the Executors of the Late Mr
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Edward Hutchinson – 17 Dec 1736
To E Hutchinson Esqr
Ravensworth Castle Decemr 17 1736
Sr
Last Post brought me a Letter from you to Mr Corbett & an Accot of Arrears due from Severall at Martinmas 1734 in which I observe £16.12s.3p to be due from Wm Lee of Lowbyre in the Manner of Alston, of which I must desire you will send me the particulars as I do not Know how to make demands without it.
Sometime before I had an Accot Drawn out by Mr Watson of Arrears both in Yours & his district & I Obse
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Hugh Boag – 19 Dec 1736
To Mr Boag
Ravensworth Castle Decer 19th 1736
As I hope you communicate to the Colll every thing that is necessary wch I write to you abt the Hospital, & as all my time is taken up with Sr Harrys & the Colls & the Hospitals business, I Desire you will excuse me to the Colll for tho’ I have Intended him a State of Heaton Collry these Sevel posts I have not been able to do it for want of a N
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 19 Dec 1736
To Wm Corbett Esqr
Ravensworth Castle Decr 19th 1736
Sr
I have a Letter from Mr Wrangham Attorney at Law in Durham, who is Mr Woods Procter in the Tyth Cause depending in the Spiritual Court at Durham acquainting me that Sentence is given for the Small Tyths At Needless hall Als Temple Thornton in faviour of Mr Moore
I wrote to Mr Wrangham for answer the Some time Since the Directors had been pleased to order that this Suit Shoud be removed into the Court of York on Accot of t
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
