To Stephen Ridpeth Ravensworth Castle June 1st 1742
Stephen
We have lett Scremerston Colliery to Mr Thomas Stokoe the Bearer hereof till next Mayday; & he comes to take possession of her which you are to deliver him up. Mr Stokoe has agreed to Employ you in the management of the Colliery, & as it is at our request that he has done so, we must recommend it to you to use all possible diligence for his Interest – You know the <Consumers> to be <Sure> v
To Mr Jas. Wood Ravensworth Castle June 4th 1742
Dear Sir
Inclosed Send you Mr Ralph Fetherstons bill on Samuel Child Esqr. & Comp. for four hundred pounds dated this day and payable 28 days after date on Acct of the Rents & profits of the Derwentwater Estates which pray Acknowledge, as the Recet. of - I hope we shall soon send you more to the amount of the Ballances in our hands and for my P’tne
Sir Ravensworth Castle June 11 1742
We send you as above a bill on Mr Benjamin Skutt dated this day and payable 28 days after date on acct of the Rents & profitts of the Derwentw’r Estate for Four Hundred pounds wch with the last Four Hundred pounds Sent you reduces < the book> verry low here which is a pleasure to us who are
Sir Your verry H’ble Servt’s
Nicho. Walton [crossed
William Corbett Esqr.
Sir Ravensworth Castle June 11 1742
Inclosed we send you our Cash Acct. for last Month, at the End of which a Ballance of £1059.1.4¼ was in our hands since which we have Inclosed Mr Wood a Bill for £400 & this day one for £400 more which reduces the Balance to £259.1. 4¼ now in our hands
Yesterday we were applied to by one Mr Bird a Gentleman from Deptford who wanted to see the Derwen
To Mr Abraham Bunting Farnacres Sunday Noon 20 June 1742
Mr Bunting
I herewith send you a Letter directed to Mr Wastell with which you are to go tomorrow morning Early with Mr Aireys Service and mine to him and as it is about an affair of Consequence you must by no means Neglect it. Mr Airey Mr Boag & my selfe will be at Dilstone on Wednesday morning next early, & I Expect Mr Wastall will meet us there. You are to give my Service to Mr Downs & tell hi
To the Revd Mr Wastell Ravensworth Castle June 20 1742
Sir
I recd last post a Letter from Mr Radley our Solicitor at Greenwich with a Coppy of a Letter from Lancelott Algood Esqr. to Sir John Jennings relating the Incroachments, he and his predecessors have made on Wark Common a Coppy whereof I here inclose you, as also a Coppy of the Information lately preferred against Mr Algood on acct. of these Incroachments which I
To Mr Jas. Wood Ravensworth Castle June 22 1742
Sir
Above is Mr Ralph Fetherstons Bill on Saml. Child Esqr. & Comp. for Four hundred pounds on Acct. of the Rents & Profitts of the Derwentwater Estate which pray Acknowledge the Rect. of & you’ll oblige
Your H’ble Servt.
Nicho’s Walton
<S..> No. 93 Newcastle June 22 nd 1742 £400
Twenty eight days after date pay to Mr
To Wm Corbett Esqr Ravensworth Castle 27 th June 1742
Sir
Inclosed you have the Invoyce Charter Party and bill of Loading for 61 Newcastle Chalden of Main Team Coales for the use of the Hospital which we have shiped on Board the Royal Ann of Scarbrough Richd. Robson Master wch we hope will come safe & prove a good baulk
I am for Mr Walton & Self Sir yr most Hble Servt
Hugh Boag
Sent to William Corbett Esqr. the 27
To Mr James Wood Ravensworth Castle June 29 th 1742
Sir
I have sent you a bill on William Bell Esqr for £58.19.7½ for the Second Loading of Coales Sent the Hospital. I have made it payable to your self upon your Demand: as it has been long due and as our yearly Acct. Terminates the 30 th <Inst. > it Induces me to do it so
Please to Acknowledge the Rect. of the Bill and place it to the Acct of my p’tner & Self
To Wm Bell Esqr Ravensworth Castle 29 th June 1742
Sir
I have taken the Liberty to draw on you payable to Mr James Wood upon his own Demand for £58.19.7½ the value of the Second Loading of Coales Sent you for the use of the Hospital, which please to Honour
We sent you a Loading last week the Invoice Charter Party & bill of Loading were Inclosed to William Corbett Esqr last post. And the Amount of this last Loading co
To William Bell Esqr
Sir
Since Mr Boag drew upon you for the 2nd loading of Coales & gave you advise thereof we have been Considering how our Balance of Cash stood & in order to Reduce it we have drawn another Bill upon you of this date for the 3 rd Loading amounting to Thirty Eight pounds Seventeen Shillings & Seven pence halfpenny payable 28 days after date to Mr James Wood which we doubt not but you will duly Hon’r, which will greatly oblige
Sir Your most H
Dear Sir Ravensworth Castle June 30 1742
Upon Considering that this Months End is the Close of our Years Acct. & that there is a ballance in our hands larger than we wish ever to have it, we have besides the Bill sent you Yesterday send you herewith one Bill for Four hundred pounds on Mr Skutt & the above Bill on William Bell Esqr for £38.17.7½. on Acct. of the Rents and Profitts of the Derwntwater Estate which pray acknowledge
A Coppy of Mr Ralph Archbolds Letter to Mr John Airey
Sir Alnwick July 2d 1742
High Buston in the parish of Warkworth lives one of James Harrigates Daughters who is wife of one [space] Graham an able Farmer, sixty years of age. She sayeth her father & Widw. Todd Farmed the North Demain & the wide open and that she knows the Goose Close verry well that it lye between the Main & the Wideopen Grounds and that there was a Runner run through
Dear Sir Ravensworth Castle July 4th 1742
Mr Boag as well as my self will think our Selves much Obliged to you, if you will pay Mr Mannock Strickland Ninety Nine pounds and take his Rect. for One hundred pounds a year Annuity due to Lady Catherine Radcliffe at last Ladyday. We always make up our Accts. on the 30 of June and therefore must desire you will make this payment upon Demand & take Mr Stricklands Rect dated 30 of June last. He will produc
To Mr Mannock Strickland at his chambers in Lincoln’s Inn Ravensworth Castle July 4 th 1742
Sir
I have wrote to Mr Skutt this day desiring he will upon demand pay you Ninety Nine pounds, which with Twenty Shillings remittance, is in full of one year Annuity due to Lady Catherine Radcliff at last Ladyday which pray give him a Rect for dated 30 June last, and deliver him up the Testimoniall of her Ladyships Life etc as usuall and you’l
To Wm Corbett Esqr Ravensworth Castle July 4 th 1742
Sir
One of our young Men in this Office who has Served as Clerk in Sir Henry Liddell’s Affairs Seven years the 11th of next Month, and is a very good one, has the misfortune by too Close Confinement to want health, wch makes it impossible for him to Continue to doe the duty which is expected from him; which is the only reason why he leaves Sir Henry Liddell’s Services - And as he
To Mr Radley Ravensworth Castle July 6th 1742
Sir
We would have answered your Letter of the 10th June last wch brought us a Coppy of Mr Algoods Letter to Sir John Jennings of the 31st of May Sooner, but that we were willing to be well Informed as to the facts as sett forth by him, before we did, & that we have only just gott finnished so to be able to do it now
The Severall Informations upon Oath taken in the Year 1739 of w
To John Ainsley Esqr. Ravensworth Castle July 7th 1742
Sir
As we are in great want of the Court Rolls belonging to the Derwentwater Estate which are in your hands we are directed to acquaint you that the Board of Directors for Greenwich Hospital, will take it kindly if you will look out Such as you have, which we will come around for, after receiving your answer hereto. We wrote Some time since in favour of John Green and Mr Radley has
To Wm. Corbett Ravensworth Castle July 9th 1742
Sir
In answer to that part of the Boards Minutes of the 16th June last relaiting to Mr Bunting having Inclosed some part of Grindon Common, we begg leave to acquaint you that Mr Bunting has made no Inclosure upon that Common nor has he any direction or Intentions so to doe, or to build a House there but the Tenants of Langly Barrony under the Commiss’rs of the Hospital have at there own
To Mr Maule Ravensworth Castle July 9th 1742
Dear Sir
We recd. yours of the 18th June last with yr Auditors Qu[estions] upon our last years Accts. wch we mislaid or they would have been Sooner answered. They are now herein Sent you answered wch will shew the Acct. is right, & you will find it so on Comparing the Rentalls Ending at 1 Mayday 1740 & 1741 with the Acct. All the Querys with regard to the Rentalls on the Second pag
To Wm. Corbett Ravensworth Castle July 11th 1742
Sir
Inclosed we Send you the Invoice Charter party and Bill of Loading for a fourth Loading of Main Team Coales amounting to 56 Chaldons value £35.9.8½… for the use of Greenwich Hospitall Shiped on board the Fran. & Mary of Scarborough Fran. Hodgson Master.
The Ship we believe is Sailed and hope she will be with you at or about the time this comes to hand I am for Mr Walton & Selfe
Sir your
To Wm. Corbett Ravensworth Castle July 13th 1742
Sir
Inclosed I send you the Invoice Bills of Loading & Charter parties of two Loadings of Coales Shipd the 10th & 12th of July Inst. on Board of the Thomas & Eleanor of Whitby John Bernard Master and the Industry of Shields Edward Hodshon Master the former 64 & the latter 68 N’Castle Chalders amounting together to the Sum of £83.12.5d The Ships are both Saild and w
To William Corbett Esqr Ravensworth Castle July 18th 1742
Sir
This week being the Quarter Sessions held at Hexham for the County of Northumberland; one of us attended the presentation of the Royators [rioters] who Cutt down the Trees & Insulted the Bayliff Mr Bunting & his Assistants in detecting of them Six of the offenders were Indicted two of wch are gone off & the other four having Submited themselves to the Mercy of the Ben
To Messrs. Paltock & Snow Ravensworth Castle July 18th 1742
Sirs
We Recd. yours and will in a little time Remitt you the Late Dr. Chamberlains Interest, We Realy forgot, it being hurry’d; but for the Future hope to be verry punctuall and begg you will give us a Line every Year when it is due
I am for Mr Walton & Selfe Your very Hble. Servt.
Hugh Boag
To Wm. Corbett Esq. Ravensworth Castle July 30th 1742
Inclosed we send you our Cash Acct. for Last Month, the Ballance whereof in our hands is Two Hundred and Fifty one pounds fifteen shillings & Sixpence. We likewise Send you our Contingent Acct. ending then amounting to One pound two Shillings & Eleven pence, both which please to lay before the Board.
We have agreed with Robt. Naisbitt, for building a Hind House at Scremmerston for t