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Letters – Joseph Richmond to Richard Wilson – 11 Nov 1757
To Richd. Wilson Esq. at Leeds
Newcastle 11 Nov 1757
Sr
I have rec[eiv]ed the 10000 quicks & put them into the Gro[un]d till they shall be wanted they look well & I hope will prove so. 10000 more will be as many as I beleive we shall have occasion for this season besides what is bought here. I have a copy of the Article & will take care the money is expended according to yo[u]r intention. No more need be remitted till I acquaint you it is wanted.
My acct of the last Mart[in
Letters – Joseph Richmond to Christopher Denton – 11 Nov 1757
To Mr Chris. Denton London
Newcastle 11 Nov
Dr Sir
I send you herewith inclosed copy of a Lre I rec[eiv]ed last night from Mr Jeffreys, wch I desire you will comunicate to Sir Walter, who I hope is got well to Town. Mr Geo. Lisle has also sent a copy to his Bro[the]r & desired him to write you his sentiments upon it by the next post so that if Mr Jeffreys is in earnest & has given his Agent full authority to conclude the matter as Sir Walter pleases& do everything incumbent to
Letters – Joseph Richmond to Christopher Denton – 22 Nov 1757
To Mr Chris. Denton Greys Inn London
Newcastle 22 Nov 1757
Dr Sr
Inclosed you receive Peareth & Sorsbies bill on Freeman & Stainbanks for £500 to pay Lady Mansels 1/2 y[ea]rs ann[ui]ty due the 10th Oct. & the ball[an]ce of my W.Kenton acct. wch I also send you herewith inclosed with four vouchers for the paym[en]ts made the 22d Dec. last pursuant to the Ma[ste]rs report of all wch I desire you will advise the rec[eip]t. I think the ball[an[ce of this acct. sho[ul]d be orde
Letters – Joseph Richmond to Walter Blackett – 22 Nov 1757
To Sir W[alte]r Blackett Bt. MP.
Newcastle 22 Nov 1757
Hon. Sir
I find my Lady intends to set forwards sometime in the next week & I shall send by her £200 in money agreable to yo[u]r order besides the £100 she will take for her journey. I have a bill for £300 that will be due the 14th next month, wch I desire to know whether I am to send up. I am very glad you have got the House in Curzon Street sold to yo[u]r satisfaction. I do not see that I shall have occasion for any of the mo
Letters – Joseph Richmond to Catherine Laidman – 25 Nov 1757
To Mrs Catharine Laidman in Hundgate Darlington
Newcastle 25 Nov 1757
Madm.
I am again orederd by Lady Blackett to acquaint you that yo[u]r applying to her in your wants is what she is not pleased with; & that tho' her Ladyship has for this time sent you a Guinea by Hen. Wright yet you are not to expect anything further f[ro]m her Ladys[hi]p for the future. I am etc H[enry] R[ichmond]
Letters – Joseph Richmond to Samuel Burn – 26 Nov 1757
To Saml. Burn Esq. Berwick
Newcastle 26 Nov 1757
Sir
My fa[the]r is abroad, But I have rec[eiv]ed yo[u]r bill on Mr Thos. Burn for £81 payable at thirty days f[ro]m 25th inst, wch when p[ai]d will be so much in further part of the
1/2 years rent due f[ro]m you & yo[u]r Brother to Sr. Wr. Blackett at Ladyday last. As to the £4.0.0 wch you expect to have allowed on acct. of the interuption you say you have met with in the enjoyment of the ring net stands I can say nothing to it. I
Deposition – John Harrison – 28 Nov 1757
John Harrison, 57, born in Allendale parish, but lived at Hawkuplee from the age of 3 to 15. At the age of 8 drove cattle and sheep up Hawkuplee, past Millstone Dyke to Carrier Hill, and turned them out to go where they would. Used to cast peats near Sandyford. He knew Wm. Johnson of Grisley Row, and that WJ and other Allendale tenants used to graze animals on Hareshaws and cast peats there.
Deposition – Elizabeth Burn – 28 Nov 1757
Mrs Elizabeth Burn, 52 and upwards, wife of apothecary in Penrith, daughter and heir of William Johnson of Grisley Row. She said that between the age of 7 and 19 when she married, ‘ in Winter she would drive her [step]father’s milch cows over the Heights (Knights) Cleugh and then hound them with a dog onto the Hareshaw or where else they chose to graze and did so constantly publicly and openly for all the time she continued at Grislee Well Raw…and saith that during all that time of her kno
Deposition – Thomas Teasdale – 28 Nov 1757
Thomas Teasdale, 75, born in the parish of Kirkhaugh and lived there all his life said he thought the ground in dispute belonged to Allendale, said ‘it was generally reputed that three Lords met at Long Cross Saith that if the ground in dispute were to be laid to Whitfield there would be little common left for the farmers of Grislee Well Raw as he apprehends.’
Deposition – Joseph Hetherington – 28 Nov 1757
Joseph Hetherington, near 70 years, of Four Darg House in Alston Moor, worked as a herd for a year and a half at Black Cleugh in Allendale, said Girslee Well Raw farmers grazed animals on Hareshaws and Thackshaws, not Whitfield tenants’ sheep unless they had strayed there. He had heard ‘several old persons ..say that when they went out of Alston Moor at the Long Cross they entered into Allendale’
Deposition – Richard Wallace – 28 Nov 1757
Richard Wallace of Slaggyford in Knarsdale manor, 68, mason, had heard that three manors joined at Long Cross, had seen peats newly cast on each side of the Alston Road east of the Sandyford. He said ‘there was a peat way from the place where the peats were cast leading to Grislee Raw. Never heard that Mr Whitfield claimed the ground in dispute till after Mohope Groove was got’. When his master’s cattle strayed from Kirkhaugh Common, which they often did, his master would tell him which ma
Deposition – Cuthbert Fairlamb – 28 Nov 1757
Cuthbert Fairlamb, 66, said that about 33/34 years ago he farmed in Huntershields Quarter in Whitfield and was desired to ride along with Mr Utrick Whitfield son of Mathew Whitfield Esq. in riding the boundary of the Manor of Whitfield. Saith that in the riding of the said boundary when they came to the Long Cross, Robert Armstrong and John Armstrong who were servants to Sir William Blackett were there and in the name of Sir William Blackett discharged them from riding any further to that point
Deposition – Joseph Walton – 28 Nov 1757
Joseph Walton, 53, ‘being one of the people called Quakers upon his affirmation said’….lived at Mohopehead in Allendale from age of 10 to 27 (when he married). He herded his father’s sheep on Hareshaws from Hardrigg to Long Cross. About 25 years ago he saw Sir Walter Blackett and his company ride that part of the Boundary of the Manor of Hexham and saw the said Sir Walter and the people with him ride… from the Hardrigg Currock to the Long Cross on which this affirmant went down the fel
Deposition – Robert Armstrong – 28 Nov 1757
Robert Armstrong of the Herbert Law, Alston, gentleman, 70, said in 1732 he rode the boundary with Sir Walter Blackett (Hardrigg-Long Cross- Blue Snab – Standing Stone in Millstone Bottom- etc)…At the time he lived in Coalcleugh in Allendale and was steward to Sir Walter Blackett there and had been employed as a steward by the Blackett family since 1717.. He said that at the corner of the new Millstones enclosure made by Mr Whitfield, his brother John Armstrong and others pulled down the fen
Deposition – Henry French – 28 Nov 1757
Henry French, 60 and upwards, carpenter, of Planetree House, Whitfield. He said that there had been no dispute about Hareshaws, Thackshaws and Millstones Fell being in Whitfield Liberty, ‘until sometime after a rich groove or lead mine was discovered in the Manor of Hexham at a place called Grisslee Raw and then he heard that Mr Blackett now Sir Walter Blackett claimed the said ground called Hareshaws, Thackshaws and Millstone Fell to be parcel of and lie within the Manor of Hexham.’….. Re
Deposition – Thomas Dawson – 28 Nov 1757
Thomas Dawson, 63, born at Whitewalls in Whitfield manor. His father farmed there and his mother after his father’s death. He was present at the Whitfield boundary riding by Mr Utrick Whitfield, son of Mathew Whitfield Esq., then Lord of the Manor of Whitfield. Saith ‘that the riding of the boundary was very public and notorious and believes that there were about three hundred people collected together, some out of curiosity and others upon other accounts….He said that Whitfield tenants
Deposition – Nicholas Lee – 28 Nov 1757
Nicholas Lee, 62, Mason, lived at Whitelees in the parish of Kirkhaugh from childhood. In 1728 he leased Millstones farm for 21 years, but disposed of his interest after 3 years. During his time there he enclosed with a hedge a considerable part of Millstones Common with permission.
Deposition – Robert Wilkinson – 28 Nov 1757
Robert Wilkinson, 67, of Dufton in Westmorland, said his father was hired as a herd by Thomas Errington of Corbygate and Ralph Whitfield of Newshield who had taken the Millstones farm as a grazing farm. It had a very large stock he believes to the amount of 1100, and the neighbours complained that Errington and Whitfield kept too large a stock of sheep upon the said Commons for their farm. In the summer they counted their stock of sheep and did this between Hareshaws, Sandiford and the Long C
Deposition – Mary Pattison – 28 Nov 1757
Mary Pattison, 59, widow, was born in Allendale but lived from the age of 16 with her father at the Millstones Tenement. She said that some Allendale tenants got peat near Knights Cleugh, but only she believed with the permission of Squire Whitfield. Peat which was cast without permission was set on fire by a servant of Squire Whitfield, and she remembered seeing it burn for several days. Squire Whitfield would not refuse permission if asked to cast peats or to take ling for thatching. She us
Deposition – John Hetherington – 28 Nov 1757
John Hetherington, 58, of the Hope in Whitfield, lived at the charge of the parish at a house in Whitfield and is maintained by the parish and has nothing of his own there. In about 1717, his father took a farm at Whitewalls in Whitfield. He remembered the riding of the boundary of Whitfield about 40 years ago by Mr Utrick Whitfield, eldest son of Mathew Whitfield Esq. Saith ‘he rode a little Galloway and was able to ride through several of the mosses but others he was obliged to lead throu
Deposition – Mathew Martin – 28 Nov 1757
Mathew Martin, aged 100 years and upwards, of White Ouston in Whitfield Parish, who had given up his farm to his sons and now lived with them as a lodger, remembered the peats of Allendale tenants being burnt, and the impounding of an Allendale tenant’s sheep, after which ‘they were never again troubled’ with them. MM had been hired to plough a new Hawkuplee inclosure north of Powstile Burn about sixty years ago (1690s).
He was with Mathew Whitfield, Lord of the Manor about 25 years a
Deposition – John Robinson – 28 Nov 1757
John Robinson, 63 and upwards, of Woodmas Walls in the West Allen, had lived at the Hope in Whitfield ‘and hath lived there from his birth till Mayday gone two years since’. He knew the places called Hareshaws, Thackshaws and Millstones Fell, but did not particularly know the name of Thackshaws until about 24 or 25 years ago when Sir Walter Blackett rode his boundary, but that to his knowledge they were always reputed to be within the Manor of Whitfield, and he never heard any claim to the c
Deposition – John Maughan – 28 Nov 1757
John Maughan, 67, of Upper Houses in Whitfield, born at Greystones where his father farmed and he farmed after him. Described Whitfield boundary, and driving cattle and horses in summer to graze on Hareshaws. He remembered waifs and strays being impounded and released only when the owners had negotiated with Squire Whitfield.
‘About six or seven years ago, he this examinant was Overseer of the Highways in Parmently Quarter and the Roads from Leadgate to Long Cross being presented for bein
Letters – Henry Richmond to Churchwardens – 1 Dec 1757
1757 Dec 13 Sent the Lres[ letters] to the Churchwardens, as usual, appointing Monday 26th inst. for distributing Sr.Wrs. Charity : for the form of these lres see Dec 1746. HR
Letters – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 2 Dec 1757
To Messrs Plumbe & Browne Golds[mi]ths in Foster Lane London
Newcastle 2 Dec 1757
Sirs
My Father has been from home for sometime But on Fryday the 25th of last Month I sent you by John James the Carrier a P[iec]e of fine Silver Bullion weighing 666 ounces, which I desire you will place to acct. with Sr. Wr. Blackett as usual at the price such silver bears with you & advise my father on the rec[eip]t of it.
I hope you & yo[u]r families are well & am etc HR
