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Letter – Henry Richmond to Ralph Forster – 4 Nov 1769
To Mr Ralph Forster at Cambo Newca[stle] 4 Novr 1769
Sir
I have sent you, as you desired, by the Cartman, the plan of Fenwick Estate: & when you have got a Copy made of it you may send me either the Original or the Copy as you please.
I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 5 Nov 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres. 5th November 1769
Dear Sir
We recd. Mrs Holmes favor of the 20th Ult. in due Course but being then on a Journey we now take the first Opportunity of writing in consequence thereof to inform you that we ha e drawn upon you for £200.2.6 being the amount of the Ounces of Bullion at 6 -1/2d POunce and 15s for Carriage. The Bill is dated the 6th and made Payable Ten days after date.
We are glad to hear of Mrs Jenkinson's safe arrival i
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 7 Nov 1769
To Mr Darwin Grays Inn London Newca[stle] 7 Novr 1769
Sir
I hope this will find you replaced & well in your chambers in Greys Inn
Inclosed I send you Bell & Cos bill on Glynn & Co for Two hundred and Eighty pounds, payable 20 days after 30 ult[im]o which I intend for the quarterly payments to 31st Decemr next; and you will please to send me for it the usual receipt to be a voucher to my Acco[un]t with Sir Walter Blacket
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 7 Nov 1769
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newca[stle] 7 Novr 1769
Sir
Sir Walter Blackett has ordered Woodcroft to be advertised to be sold. You will see the Advertisement in the next Saturdays papers, I expect, & that any person desirous of viewing the same may apply to you or to Joseph Angus the Tenant at Woodcroft; so you will take Care to give him directions in time; to show the farm and all belonging to it to any that may want to see
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 14 Nov 1769
Mr Mulcaster Farnacres 14th November 1769
We recd your Letter of the 5th & 6th Instant in due course and now take the first convenient opportunity of acquainting you that as John Barnatt has behaved so Ill we must leave it to your discretion to discharge him or not as you shall think right & to employ such Person in his stead as you see most proper for the good of the Undert
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 15 Nov 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 15th November 1769
Dear Sir
By the London Carrier who set out from Newcastle on Saturday last we send you 484 Ounces of Silver which we hope you will receive Safe on the 25th Instant when we shall be glad to hear from you and are with best respects to yourself and Family.
Dear Sir your most Hble Servts
NW Junr
JS
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Hankey – 17 Nov 1769
To John Hankey Esqr Bishop Gate Street London Newca[stle] 17th Novr 1769
Sir
Inclosed are Bell and Cos two bills on Glyn & Co as above, the Bill for Seventy four pounds five shillings is to pay for five Ticketts you have bought for Sir Walter Blackett in the present Lottery & you will please to advise me by the return of the post that you have received this bill on the Acco[un]t. The other bill for fourteen pounds seventeen shillings I send you to pay for
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 18 Nov 1769
To Mr Peter Mulcaster. Farnacres 18th November 1769
Mr Mulcaster
We duly received your Letter of the 12th and 13th Instant and as in our last we gave you directions that you were at liberty to dispose of Barnatt to your liking, we need not repeat it now. We don't believe he is capable of being amended, so that when you cannot get on with the business on account of his deficiences, you will be obliged to dismiss him in your own defence.
The Affair that you tell us i
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 20 Nov 1769
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 20 Novr 1769
Sir
Sir Walter Blackett has sold Woodcroft Estate and the purchasor desires that the Deeds relating to the Title of it may be sent hither as soon as possible: Sir Walter therefore bids me write you to send them to me and he will sign a receipt at the foot of a schedule of them, if you send him one for that purpose. The purchasor is one Mr Cutht Ward who lives in Weardale in the Nei
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 24 Nov 1769
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s in Hexham Newca[stle] 24 Novr 1769
Sir
I have looked at Mr John Greenwells plan of the ground in Dispute between Hexham & Blanchland, which is very well executed; and I don’t doubt but he has accurately surveyed the prem[is]es. I shall return you the plan by the first Hexham Carrier & desire Mr Greenwell may make two small plans by a Scale of half the length and without ornaments. One of which should be gi
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 24 Nov 1769
To Mesrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London Newca[stle] 24 Novr 1769
Gentlemen
I have drawn a Bill upon you for Six hundred pounds dated this day & payable to Messrs Bell Cookson & Co or order Thirty days after date; which you will please to accept & place to Acco[un]t with Sir Wr Blackett. I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 25 Nov 1769
Mr Mulcaster Farnacres 25th November 1769
I have reced your Letter of the 25th Instant and duely note its Contents. Above you have a Copy of the Letter which you mention has lossed it's way to the Mill - for the future I shall be glad to find Mr Laybourne and Mr Bells Messengers are more punctual, and I must beg you will find out the Persons Name to whom this Letter was delivered for tho the present one was not of consequence to make any bustle about, yet it may be proper
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Smeaton – 25 Nov 1769
Part of Mr Walton Junrs Letter of 26th November 1769 to Mr Smeaton
I inclose you a Copy of Mr Mulcasters last Letter by which you will observe he wishes to have a Relation employed as a Refiner. I have wrote him that I shall consult with you upon the Subject of his Letter, after which he shall hear from me, and ‘in the meantime’ as an alteration appears at present impracticable ‘things to go on as at present’ - I do think that Barnott is a Man we cannot depend upon at any ra
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 25 Nov 1769
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s in Hexham Newca[stle] 25 Novr 1769
Sir
I have told Mr Ra Forster of what Mr Bullock had mentioned to me of the variation made by Mr Errington’s people (from the Line staked out at Hallington by the referees) in building the Wall: & he promised to view and let me know the Contents of the ground taken in by such variation. but I have not had an Acco[un]t from Mr Forster, whose Illness I suppose has prevented him
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 27 Nov 1769
To Mr Darwin Grays Inn London Newca[stle] 27 Novr 1769
Sir
I have received your Letter inclosing me Mr Savage’s receipt for four hundred and Ninety five pounds for the half Years int[e]r[es]t due to him the 6th instant from Sr Wr Blackett on the Mortgage of Wallington; and have given you Credit for the Same. I am sorry you have not succeeded in your Search about Sams Island, Any more than for the Decree for Confirming the Award for t
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 28 Nov 1769
To Mr John Holmes Farnacres 28th November 1769
Dear Sir
I have this day drawn upon you for £146.15.2 being the amount of 484 Ounces of Silver at 6s 1/2d. The Bill as usual Payble 10 days after date. My Wife joins in best respects & I am
Dear Sir Your Obliged Hble Servt
Nich. Walton Junr.
PS. The above Sum includes 18s for Carriage of the Silver.
Farnacres 28th November 1769
Dear Sir
Ten Days after Date Pay to Messr
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 28 Nov 1769
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newca[stle] 28 Novr 1769
Sir
I have received by the Hexham Carrier the two pieces of Silver from Dukesfield Refinery; one weighing Seven hundred & Seventy Ounces and a half and the other five hundred and sixty three ounces and a half.
I am sorry Mr Harrison cannot keep his Acco[un]ts right – he gives but small grounds for Confidence in him. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 1 Dec 1769
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newca[stle] 1st Decr 1769
Sir
Yesterday I received the Deeds relating to the Title of Woodcroft Estate, by the Coach, agreeable to your Letter of the 24th of last Month; and shall take care to retain the parcell w[hi]ch you have made an Endorsement on, that they are not to be delivered to the purchasor of Woodcroft, as they relate to Winlaton as well as That Estate and must be kept to go along with the Tr
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 2 Dec 1769
To Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths in Foster Lane London Newca[stle] 2d Decr 1769
Gentlemen
I sent you Yesterday by Thos Jennings the London Carrier two pieces of fine Silver, weight as below; which I desire you will place to Account with Sir Wr Blackett as usual at the Markett price and advise me on your receipt of them. I wish you the Compliments of the Ensuing Season & am etc HR
one piece qty 770 ½
the other qty 563 ½
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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 4 Dec 1769
Mr Mulcaster Farnacres 4th December 1769
Your Letters of the 21st 22d 23d &24th Ult. were received in due course; and on the Subject of Barnetts Behaviour, we are now to inform you in answer in yours, that if he is able, careful and diligent, when he is at Work, it is no Affair of ours now he spends his Money, provided the Work does not materially Suffer in those intervals; when it does, there is sufficient Reason for discharging him, and on this footing there appears no nec
Letter – Henry Richmond to Richard Wilson – 6 Dec 1769
To Richd. Wilson Esq in Leeds Newcas. 6 Decem. 1769
Yorkshire
Sir Mr King told me a few days ago that it would be sometime before he could pay his half years rent and that he had wrote you that he would pay Interest for the time. I therefore have inclosed you Bell Cookson & Co’s. bill on Glyn and Hallifax for three hundred pounds, on Acct. of what I have received of your other tenants and desire you will Advise me of the
Letter – Henry Richmond to Ralph Forster – 15 Dec 1769
To Mr Ralph Forster at Cambo Newcas. 15 Decr. 1769
Sir I am very glad to hear you recover so well; but as it must be a work of time to re-establish your Health I do not look for your Assistance in buying the Beef for the poor on Saturday the 30th. Instant; but only desire you will speak to Mr Sadler to come in against that day to help us, for I think Mr Curry is not so able as formerly. Mr Sadler is the only person, next to yourself,
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 19 Dec 1769
To Mr John Bell at Mr Ellis’s Newcas. 19th Decr. 1769
In Hexham
I acquainted Sir Walter of Mr. Ellis’s death and of what you say about fixing here or at Hexham as he shall appoint, but he has not yet given me an answer to that point: As soon as he determines, which will be this week, I shall let you know. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to Peter Rumney – 19 Dec 1769
To the Revd. Mr Rumney at Hexham Newcas. 19th Decemr. 1769
Sir Sir Walter Blackett bids me give his Compliments to you, and acquaint you that he has met with a person for Cambo School, whose Testimonials are such as to have induced him to appoint him Master of it, I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 22 Dec 1769
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 22nd December 1769
Dear Sir
By last Week's London Carrier I sent you a Box contain g 486 1/2 Ounces of Silver which will I hope arrive Safe on Saturday Sennit. I paid the Carriage 11s/6d. When you get it I shall be glad to hear from you.
This Family join me in wishing you and yours many happy returns of the Season and I am. Dear Sir
Your most Hble Servt
NWJunr
