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
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
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 &
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To Mr Ralph Forster at Wallington Newca[stle] 23d Augst 1768
Sir
I have agreed with Thos Forster for Carriage of the Boat, (which Geo Bowlt has made) for two Guineas. he is to deliver it at Rothley Lake safe and Sound and to be at all Expences and Risks attending the Conveyance. I am etc HR
To Sir Wr Blackett Bt at Wallington Newcastle 23d Augst 1768
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
The Mayor dines at Gibside to day & as Judge Yates leaves Durham to Night the opportunity of writing thither to him about Welch is over: but I find several of the Magistrates are ag[ain]st an Application to the Throne for this Man: but that they are willing to soften his Sentence by paying for his passage & letting him take his chance in America as a Serva
Dear Sir,
Your letter gave me great pleasure and flatter’d my Vanity very much to find that I was remember’d at so great a distance, and especially by a Gentleman in your Station, and that your letter by the length of it is not merely a complimentary one, but I have really been some hours in your thoughts, notwithstanding the multiplicity of business that a person of your rank must be perpetually involved in. You should have heard from me sooner if I could have got what you wanted, f
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newca[stle] 30th Augst 1768
Sir
Yesterday I received by Ralph Little the two pieces of Silver, one weighing five hundred & Eighty six Ounces and the other four hundred and Ninety Ounces and have given Dukesfield Refinery Credit for the same. P.S. pray what occasions the great difference of produce between the same ore on the 12th July & the 26th Augst. I am etc HR
To Mr Thomas Maughan at Newhouse Weardale Newca[stle] 30th Augst 1768
Sir
As it will be necessary to examine some of the Witnesses that were present at the riding the boundary of Weardale Mines by Sir Walter and the Bishops Agents in 1737, I have sent you herewith a Copy of the boundery roll; and desire you will, as soon as you can, collect the testimonies of such of them as you find have a clear remembrance of the riding that part of the Boundary which is betwee
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London Newca[stle] 2d Septr 1768
Gentlemen
I send you here inclosed two Copies of your Acco[un]t with Sir Walter Blackett – I have signed one and if you find they are right I desire you will sign and return the other. I am etc HR
To Mr. Chrisr. Bell. Farnacres 2nd September 1768
Sir
Corbett and Johnson having refused delivering the Lead into the Warehouse at Newcastle unless we pay the Labourers for carrying it from the Waggon to the Warehouse we desire no more Lead may be delivered to any Person if they want to agree to take 13d pPig for Carriage from the Mill to the Warehouse and delivery thereof into the same. We are
Sir your most Hble Servt
Nich. Walton Jun.
J. Smeaton
To Richd Wilson Esqr Leeds Yorkshire Newca[stle] 5th Septr 1768
Sir
I rec[eiv]ed your Letter from Scarborough inclosing the Draught of the conveyance of East Kenton which I shall get engrossed with a Counterpart inserting the exception about the Leases etc; as I wrote you and making some Additions to the parcels to continue them down to the present possessors.
The dra[ugh]t and Counterpart as Sir Wr Blackett desires me, I shall send as soon as
To Mr Darwin at Elston near Newark Newca[stle] 5 Septr 1768
Sir
Mr Wilson has sent me the dra[ugh]t of Conveyance of East Kenton agreeable to your Copy only he has inserted the Name of Freeman Sambroke which I think is wrong & that it sho[ul]d be Sambroke Freeman. He says there is no occasion to except the Out rent and the Fee farm rent which were payments before the Blackett’s family came to the Estate; for since restrained Covenant
Part of Messrs. Walton and Smeatons Letter of 5th September 1768 to John Ibbetson Esqr.
Mr Errington having applied to know whether it would be agreable to the commissioners of Greenwich of Greenwich Hospital to receive Proposals for the Purchase of the Dues of Lead Ore for a Term of Years, the price to be governed by the price of Lead at Newcastle, he had for answer, that it was apprehended the Commissioners would not take any Proposals for the Duty Ore as they had determined to Sm
To Sir Wr Blackett Baro[ne]t at Wallington Newca[stle] 10th Sept 1768
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
Dr Fawcett desires his Compliments and is obliged to You for the Venison which came just according to their wishes. A Little for our Christening dinner will be acceptable & as soon as I can fix the day I will acquaint You. I think it can hardly be in this Mayoralty but I hope early in the next and while you are in Town to avoid giving You a Journey on purpose. Yo
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London Newca[stle] 12 Sept 1768
Gentlemen
On Friday last the 9th instant I sent you by William Laycock the London Carrier two pieces of fine Silver, the weight as below, which I desire you will place to Acco[un]t with Sir Walter Blackett as usual at the Markett price and advise me on your receipt of them. I am etc HR
one p[iec]e qty 586 at p[er] oz
the other qty 490 at p[er] oz
107
To Sir Walter Blackett Baro[ne]t at Wallington Newca[stle] 15th Sept 1768
Hon[ou]r[e]d Sir
Mr Maughan was here on Tuesday last for Money; but had not finished his Examination of the people about the Langtihead boundary – he expects to do it in about ten Days or a fortnight. So far as he has gone affords but little Satisfaction, & what is worse the Grove is not so good as she was. But on the other hand he says Dawsons Grove is mended and has yeilded 200