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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Maule – 3 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 3d 1741
To Mr Maule
Sir
We have the favour of yours of the 29 July last Inclosing our two Quarters Ending the 30 June 1739 & the 3d June 1740 for wch we beg a return of our most hearty thanks & Inclosed herin we send you a bill on Mr Skutt for the £49.12.1 ½ you have been so kind as Pay the Auditers to whome pray at your first opportunity present our Complimts for the Dispatch he has been so kind as give to the accot.
We have made up our
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Bell – 3 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 3d 1741
To William Bell Esqr
Sir
We have this day drawn a bill upon you payable to Mr James Wood for One Hundred & three pounds one shilling & fivepence the amount of the two Loading of Coales as per Invoice sent William Corbett Esqr. we hope the Coals will come to your satisfaction & doubt not but you will give due Honr. to our Bill and we are Sir
Yours &c
Nichos. Walton Hugh Boag
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 11 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 11 1741
To William Corbett Esqr
Sir
We reced. Yours with the boards minutes of the 5th of August Inst & that of the Generall Court of the 7th May preceeding which we have A due Regard to, and in answer to that part of the Minutes of the 5th Inst we begg leave to Inclose you the advertisement of the lead ore dues which was Inserted in the Newcastle Journall three weeks the first of which of the 9th May last. The proper time of the year for advertis
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Radley – 11 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 11 1741
To Mr William Radley
Sir
We reced. Yours of the 6th of Aug Inst & hope that ours of the 3d will be sufficient to answer what you want with Respect to the Derwentwater woods.
Some of the freeholders within the Lords Waists, in the Manour of Wark will prove their having got coals without the Lords Leave or Licence & have sold and disposed of the same, but always in a Forceable Way, as we apprehend. We do not think any Custom can be pr
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Richard Horne – 11 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 11 1741
To Mr Rd. Horne
Dear Sir
We reced. Yours of the 6 Aug Inst & thank you for the kind Intimation you have given us with regard to Mr Stricklands Enquiry, & you may be Assured we will act cautiously.
We are very well Acquainted with most of the miners at <NC [Newcastle?]> and believe we can Serve you, however you may depend upon all we can doe. You Say you would be glad to <Clubb your mites> which we desire you will Explain
Letter – Nicholas Walton to James Wood – 14 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 14 1741
To Mr James Wood
Dear Sir
My Partner Mr Boag is from home & will not be here for I believe 10 days or more. So that I send you herein my Certificate for the Sums Rermitted you Between the 1st January 1738 & 31 Decr.1739 which I hope will ansr. your purpose; if it will not be Sufficient wth.out both of us signing let me know & you shall have one at Mr Boag’s return. I am with respect to all friends, Dr Sir , yrs &c
Ni
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Nicholas Roberts – 15 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Aug. 15th 1741
To <N> Roberts Esq.
Sir
Reced. the favour of yours of the 13 Inst relating to Wooley hall Mill which is un Tennanted and very much out of Repair. In Ansr to which I do not think the Comis[sioner]s of Greenwich Hospl. Will be at any Expence in the repair of it, but if you would consider what Rent you would think proper to give & let me know as also the Terme you would take it for your proposals shall be Transmitted to our Board & then
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 18 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 18 1741
To William Corbett Esq
Sir
In yours of the 2d of July last, you Inclosed a Letter from Mr Thos. Fenwick (who was some few years agoe a Corn Mercht. In Newcastle) recommending a gamekeeper to be appointed for preserving the Game in that part of the Derwentwater Estate near Hexham, of which we have not taken any Notice in answer to you as we were willing to be informed how this might give Offence to the neighbouring Gentlemen, as it is a thing by which the
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Radley – 21 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 21st :1741
To Mr William Radley Attorney at Law at Greenwich
I Recd yours of the 15th Inst in relation to the Covenant you apprehended necessary to be incerted in the Tack Note to John Lowther Esq. which I thought we had wrote you fully in ours of the 11th Inst. To Incert such a Covenant as that of Building a Smelting Mill, when they have one already, or laying out £4000, when £100 may be sufficient or Imploying 100 hands, where it might not be in th
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Watson – 25 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 25th : 1741
To John Watson Esqr.
Sir
I am ordered to give you the Trouble of this, to desire you will Inform me, whether you have in your Custody, the Leases from the Dean & Chapter of Carlisle, of Dilston & Lorbottle Tyths, which were renewed by you or Mr Hutchinson in the year 1734 & If you have them that you will Transmitt them to me. You will please to signifie if you have them not, in whose hands you apprehend they are, which will be very obli
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Edward Hutchinson – 25 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 25th : 1741
To Edward Hutchinson Esqr.
Sir
I am ordered to give you the Trouble of this, to desire you will Inform me, whether you have in your Custody, the Leases from the Dean & Chapter of Carlisle, of Dilston & Lorbottle Tyths, which were renewed by you or Mr Watson in the year 1734; If you have them I desire you will Transmitt them to me, or if you have them not, that you will be so kind as Inform me where you apprehend they are. I have
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Richard Horne – 31 Aug 1741
Ravensworth Castle Augt 31st : 1741
To Mr Horne
Dear Sir
I would have answered yours of the 14th Inst sooner, but that I expected your Patterns, which I intended to have shewn immediately and by that means I hoped to have had the pleasure of telling you our success. Mr Boag has been from home since before I recd. yours, but I can assure you we are both well Inclined to serve you & you may depend upon our doing our best. Captain Airey is I fancy in Town, by whom pray send th
Letter – Thomas Stephenson to Nicholas Walton – 31 Aug 1741
Messrs Walton & Boag. Gentlemen.
I reced. yours & very much Wonder the Commiss[ioner]s will allow me nothing which will be a hardship I am very unwilling as well as unable to bear it; you Desire to know what will Content me, which I am at a stand to answer nor can I see what purpose my saying anything is, as to the particular as you say the Gentlemen will allow me nothing. They see what I have Expended of which I am willing to lose one third & I do not doubt if they seriously
Letter – Nicholas Roberts to Nicholas Walton – 31 Aug 1741
Hexham Aug 31, 1741
Sirs
Yours of the 15 Inst I did not receive till the 29. or should have made my Acknowledgement sooner. I would propose to have Wooley Hall mill putt into repair with two stocks for Fulling & a Dwelling house erected for a Miller with Tenters: I shall be willing to pay Ten per Cent for the money laid out in Such Repaires & to take a Lease for 21 years, you finding wood for Repairing the House, Mill & Dam. I will bear the Expence of the other charges in
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 4 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Septemr. 4th 1741
To Mr Wm Corbett Esq.
Sir
We reced. yours with the Boards Minutes of the 16 Aug last which we duly observe & beg you will please to rectify the Minutes relating the Balance of our bank acct. as the £20 3/4d is in our favour & not remaining in our hands.
As to the proposal which you have reced. from John Lowther Esq. for making a trial for Lead ore to the south of Redgroves Edge we can see no objection, provided you make the commo
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 4 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Sept. 4th 1741
To Mr Wm Corbett Esq.
Sir
We reced. yours of the 27th Aug last & will take care of your commissions; but at present it is not a proper time to buy oates for you & butter is extraordinary dear, not under 28s or 29s per firkin we are in hopes it may be Cheaper, but if it is not we would be glad to know if we should buy; Oates will be low, so that till about Xmas we don’t propose to buy. The Crop here is a most extraordinary one of all G
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 8 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Sep 8. 1741
To William Corbett Esq.
In obedience to the Boards Command we wrote to Thomas Stephenson the Tennant of Hartside Colliery & therein Acquainted him that the Board would not allow him anything towards the winning that colliery & that they they [sic] thought his demand a most Extraordinary one, but as we apprehend a small part of his demand would content him, if he would let us know what his Expectations really were, we would venture to lay th
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John King – 8 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Sept. 8th 1741
To Mr King
Sir
I have fix’d the time for holding the Court at Keswick & Thornthwaite the 1st & 2d of October next & hope to be at Keswick the 30 of Sept in the Evening. I desire you will give notice of the Courts accordingly & that you’ss have every thing ready for the necessary despatch Business as I shall not stay longer than two days. I am with Comp[liment]s to your Lady
Sir Yrs &c Nich. Walton
PS Mr Bo
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Pearson – 8 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Sep 8. 1741
To Mr Jo. Pearson
Sir
I have Wrote to Mr King this day to give the proper Notice that the Courts will be held at Keswick the 1st & at Thornthwaite the 2d of Oct next which days are also fix’d for the Rec[eip]t of the Rents &c. & of which pray give proper Notice, & if you can receive in the meantime any small R[en]ts which may Shorten the Work pray do so. I hope to see you at my [Landbed Gravess] on Wednesday Evening the 30 Sept Ins
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Lee – 8 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Sep 8. 1741
Mr William Lee
I desire you will in the usual manner Publish the Rec[eip]t of the Derwentwater Rents at Lowbyres on Tuesday the 29 of this month where it is expected that all the Tennants appear and pay their Small Rents &c. I am afraid no millstones can be got to you this year s the weather is Altering & the season for such heavy carriage too farr spent, but when Mr Boag & I are together will Consider it & do for you what we can
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Radley – 10 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Septemr. 10th 1741
To Mr Radley at Greenwich
Sir
In answer to yours of the 25th Inst. I am of opinion that it is not necessary for Doctor Lowther at the Determination of his Lease for a year to Covenant in any future Lease that he will imploy any greater number of hands, than four to each mine, nor to build any other mills, than the late Col. Liddell and he did, as these in all probability will smelt & stamp more, than the produce of the whole moor, both
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Corbett – 11 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Sep 11. 1741
To W.Corbett Esqr.
Sir
Herein I send you the last Months Cash Accot. in which you will please to observe is A Ballance in our favour of £66:13:11 ¾ which is the Needfull from
Sir Your most Hble Servt.
Nichs. Walton
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Airey – 15 Sep 1741
To N Walton Esq
I did write to you by Order of the Board to be Informed as farr as you Could what quantity of Coales Robson & his accomplices have got and Converted & Sold since Mayday last which you said was not possible for you to come to the knowledge of: and if so whether it may not be worth while for the Comiss[ioner]s of the Hospital to seek for a Satisfaction for the Coales the Intruder have Carried away illegally & sold since mayday last, and if it will that you will end
Letter – Nicholas Walton to William Radley – 18 Sep 1741
Ravensworth Castle Sep 18. 1741
To Mr Wm Radley
Sir
Your favour of the 3d Sept came in course, wth the Termes proposed to be laid before the Attorney Generall touching the sale of the Timber upon the Derwentwater estate which we have examined & returned you herein with only two small alterations which are interlined as you will observe by the inclosed. We think there is no other alteration necessary Except in regard to the payment of money being secured only by the purc
Letter – John Maule to Nicholas Walton – 19 Sep 1741
Mr Maull to Messrs W&B
Royal Hospital at Greenwich 19 Sep 1741
Gentlemen,
Before I came into this Hospital I was Bound for a Brother of ine for £100 …… and by misfortunces he has failed & they have come upon me in a hurry for the money, which I must pay presently or be Exposed, therefore not to let my Circumstances be known where I am, I must humbly Implore your Assistance to Lend me the foresaid sum and I shall give my bond to whom you desire payable with Common Inter
