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Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 24 Jun 1768
Mr John Bell at Mr Elliss in Hexham Newcastle 24th June 1768
Sir
I desire to know, before I write to Mr Douglas, whether it will suit you to go to Berwick on Monday the 11th of next month – if so, you can go to Wallington on Sunday the 10th & take Mr Forster & Mr Brown along with you P.S. I have rec[eiv]ed Stublock Coll[ie]ry Leases back again & have sent them to my brother, who says he can set all right by an Endorsem[en]ts.
Letter – Henry Richmond to Thomas Davison – 28 Jun 1768
To Mr Thomas Davison Shoemaker Morpeth Newca[stle] 28th June 1768
Sir
Agreeable to Sir Walter Blackett’s Notice to you and Mr Horsley that he would pay off your joint Mortgage on the 24th instant on the Estate he bought of Mr Smith at Hawick, I was ready then to have waited on you with the Money at Morpeth as your Attorney Mr Newton had appointed – but I was prevented coming by a Message he sent me by My Brother desiring in your Names that the payment
Letter – Henry Richmond to Ralph Forster – 28 Jun 1768
To Mr Ra Forster at Wallington Newca[stle] 28 June 1768
Sir
Mr Bell writes me that he will be ready to go to Berwick with you on Monday the 11th of next month; so I shall write Mr Douglass that you will be at Tweedmouth on Tuesday Evening. I think it will be necessary for Mr Geo Brown to go with you that you may get the Turnpike road viewed & certified for, that Mr Bell may be able to settle that matter with Mr Douglass. I donâ
Letter – Henry Richmond to George Douglas – 28 Jun 1768
To Mr Geo Douglass Plumber in Berwick Newca[stle] 28 June 1768
Sir
Mr Bell & Mr Brown will be at Tweedmouth on Tuesday the 12 of next month when I hope all matters will be got settled about the pitmen’s houses & the Road. I hope also the Rent for the fishery will be ready & that you will be so good as acquaint the other Tenants of their coming that they may be ready also with their rents. If it sho[ul]d be convenient you may at the
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 4 Jul 1768
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 4th July 1768
Sir
I have received your Letter inclosing me Mr Walter Trevelyans bill on you for Sixty two pounds ten Shillings for his <.> rent charge on Hawick with your Indorsement of the same to me & therefore have given you Credit for that sum and I have at last received of Mr Greenwell three pounds twelve Shillings for Roger Crosby’s receipt which I have also given you Credit
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Christopher Bell – 4 Jul 1768
To Mr. Chrisr. Bell. Farnacres 4th July 1768
Sir
I entirely agree with what you propose with regard to the railing, and desire you and Peter Mulcaster with William Labourne will do what appears most proper in securing the Barn and Peats. Pray let me know in your next, I mean by the first Post, how long you think Bacons Moss would last to cut no more Peats in it than would fill the Old Peat House Annually. I am
Sir your Hble Servt.
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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Joseph Hilton – 4 Jul 1768
To Mr. Joseph Hilton. Farnacres. 4th July 1768
Mr. Hilton
I desire to hear from you about the Carriers the latter end of this Week without fail, with your Opinion whether we shall get forward without giving the prices Asked; if you are of Opinion we shall not get forward so well as we ought to without giving the additional Prices 6s and 6s6d. I think the sooner we give them the better, and in such case I would have you and Mr. Mulcaster immediately give it out that those will
Letter – Henry Richmond to Sambrooke Freeman – 9 Jul 1768
To Sambrooke Freeman Esqr Berkley Square London Wallington Sat 9th July 1768
Dear Sir
Having several Months ago articled with Mr Wilson for the Sale of Kenton & received ten Thousand pounds from him I did suppose he had settled with you & Mr Glover or whoever is the other Mortgagee in respect to the remaining fourteen Thousand, so that I concluded I had nothing further to do in the matter; I always understood that some delay in getting the proper title Deeds or s
Letter – Henry Richmond to Richard Wilson – 9 Jul 1768
To Richard Wilson Esqr Leeds Yorkshire Newca[stle] 9th July 1768
Sir
Inclosed is a Copy of a Letter which Sir Wr Blackett has received from Mr Freeman, & which he desires me to send you. He does not know what answer to give to it, and would be glad if you would either enable him to give me, by sending him a Letter upon the Matter; or would take the trouble of answering Mr Freeman yourself. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 12 Jul 1768
Sir Walter Blackett Baro[ne]t at Wallington Newca[stle] 12th July 1768
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
Mr Errington has returned Mr Wilson the Draught of the Arbitration Bond, inserting only a Liberty of getting Stones for building Walls and fences, as well as houses: so it will be engrossed directly & one part sent to Sr Thos Wentworth.
I hear all the parties have now executed the Arbitration bonds for adjusting the dispute about Lucker Moor & Tithe: so I
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Henry Errington – 15 Jul 1768
To Henry Errington Esq. Farnacres 15th July 1768
Sir
On considering your application yesterday by Mr. Donkin I do not think that the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital will now receive my Proposals for the Duty Ore as they have determined to Smelt, and in consequence thereof Agents are engaged, who have been assured they will continue to Smelt, and employ them so long as the same shall be attended with Success, and they shall discharge their Duty properly. I am for P'tner
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 15 Jul 1768
Part of Mr. N Walton Juns. Letter of 15th July 1768 to Mr Ibbetson
The Ore Carriers begun Work on Monday Sennit? and we shall, I hope, now get forward very well.
At a Meeting of the Directors of Greenwich Hospital, at that place, on Saturday the 23rd of July 1768. The Directors took notice of the Ore Carriers having begun Work.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Smeaton – 18 Jul 1768
Part of Mr. N Walton Juns. Letter of 18th July 1768 to Mr Smeaton
As I thought you would like to know how the Lead Trade is going on at Langley Mill I send you above Copies of the several Letters from the Agents since you left his place, by which youll see there have been some unfair Practices and which have partly occasioned our giving the Prices asked by the Carriers. There must be one Cottage Built for the Smelters this year, for I am afraid if we let them lye in the Store Room the
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 19 Jul 1768
To S[i]r Wr Blackett Bt at Wallington Newca[stle] 19 July 1768
Hon[ou][r]ed Sir
Inclosed is the Order for the payments to Miss Robertses and the draught of another, as Mr Bell said it was to be.
I intended to have asked Mr Cookson which of them are concerned in Fallowfield; but he has not been upon ’Change for some days. I hear nothing yet of Sr Alexr Macdonald.
I find there is a dispute about a few Yards of boundary between Lord Darl
Letter – Henry Richmond to Richard Wilson – 19 Jul 1768
To Richd Wilson Esqr at Leeds Yorkshire Newca[stle] 19th July 1768
Sir
I have received your Letter of the 18th instt inclosing me your Bill on Messrs T Wilson & Planel for two hundred pounds payable to me or order; which I have placed to your Acco[un]t with Sir Walter Blackett; & which when paid will be in full for your proportion of the half Year’s int[e]r[es]t due 27th March last; which Sir Walter paid to the Mortgagees of the £14000 on
Letter – Henry Richmond to Thomas Maughan – 21 Jul 1768
To Mr Thos Maughan Newhouse Weardale Newca[stle] 21st July 1768
Sir
Sir Walter desires you will send to Mr Wm Westgarth to come & view the ground in dispute at Langtihead and to consider the Situation of the Groves & veins there as well in his as Lord Darlington’s Liberty and to enquire of the old people that were at the ridings of the boundary how it was ridden by both parties and to get a plan drawn as was talked of when you were here &
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 22 Jul 1768
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 22d July 1768
Sir
In answer to your Letter to Sir Walter, about Hexham East Ferry Boat, he bids me acquaint you that he thinks there is no other Way of proceeding in this business than what is prescribed in Mr Wilsons opinion dated 28 Decr last which I sent you a Copy of in my Letter of 15 March last; & which is for the parties who are not under Coverture to Surrender by Letter of Attorney,
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 26 Jul 1768
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s Hexham Newca[stle] 26th July 1768
Sir
Sir Walter Blackett has ordered Twenty one pounds a piece to be paid to Miss Mally, Miss Dolly & Miss Bella Roberts, now, as a present, and the same sum to be paid to each of them every Year in half Yearly payments, to wit at Chrmas & Midsumr. As it will be most convenient for them to have these Sums paid them at Hexham you will please to do so, and to take the receip
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 29 Jul 1768
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s Hexham Newca[stle] 29th July 1768
Sir
Sir Walter desires to know whether there is any Waste Ground on the North Side of the Tyne, near Hexham, which as Lord of the Manor he could, if occasion should require it, make use of for a Landing place & to build a Boat house upon. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 2 Aug 1768
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 2d Augst 1768
Sir
Inclosed is the Duplicate of the Acco[un]t between You and me; which being right I have signed and returned: and am only sorry you did not give me an opportunity of settling it with you in Newcastle. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 12 Aug 1768
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths in Foster Lane London Newcastle 12 Augst 1768
Gent[leme]n
I have this day sent you by Wm Laycock the London Carrier a piece of Silver containing 705 Ounces; w[hi]ch I desire you will place to Sr Wr Blacketts acco[un]t as usual at the Market price & advise me on the receipt of it. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 16 Aug 1768
To Sir Wr Blackett Bt at Wallington Newcastle 16th Augst 1768
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
Mr G Brown went to Hexham Yesterday in a Chaise & Mr Lambert thinks he will be quite well of the Fistula when the wound heals w[hi]ch will be in a fortnights or three weeks time – the cure has been a little retarded by his having the Piles. I have spoke to all our principal Merchants abo[u]t young Mr <Bonack> but cannot find any room for him, at prese
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 17 Aug 1768
To Mr Wm Alvey Darwin at Elston near Newark Nottinghamshire Newca[stle] 17th Augst 1768
Sir
Sir Walter Blackett has given me the Copy of the draught you sent him of Mr Wilsons Conveyance deed of Kenton: and I have wrote Mr Wilson about the exception that you think sho[ul]d be inserted in Sir Wrs Covenant against incumbrances – touching the Out rent the fee farm rent & the Leases & also about Sir Walters having a Counterpart. In your Lre to Sir Walter you say the rents & intres
Letter – Henry Richmond to Richard Wilson – 17 Aug 1768
To Richard Wilson Esqr Leeds Yorkshire Newca[stle] 17th Augst 1768
Sir
Mr Darwin writes that the draught of the Conveyance Deed of East Kenton is right all but an exception that sho[ul]d be inserted in Sir Wr Blacketts Covenant against incumbrances, of the Outrent of 16s & the fee farm rent of 4s a Year & Leases and Articles for Leases for Terms of Years not exceeding 21 Years. And he thinks it will be proper that Sir Walter should have a Coun
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 19 Aug 1768
To Sir Wr Blackett Baro[ne]t at Wallington Newca[stle] 19 Augst 1768
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
Inclosed herewith is the plan of Lucker Moor, and some Minutes concerning the Tithe of it. & I will send Mr Robsons Book in a few days.
I have sent a deed which is to be executed by Mr Smith; it is an Assignment of a Term of 999 Years in the part of Hawick which you bought of him – all the parties have executed but himself and he is to do it at the 2d Seal bef
