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Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter & James Robinson – 2 Apr 1770
To Messrs. Wr. & James Robertson Newcas. 2 April 1770
Merchants at Lynn Regis
Gentlemen Sir Walter Blackett has desired me to answer your Letter to him of the 29 Ulto., enquiring about his Lead. which I beg leave to do by acquainting you that it is always brought to this Market for Sale. that he does not export any of it himself but sells it to the Merchants here without risk or further trouble. So that if you should chus
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 4 Apr 1770
To Sir Wr. Blackett Bt. M.P. in Half Moon Street Newcas. 4 April 1770
Piccadilly London
Honrd Sir Mr Hedley says you positively refused doing anything for Miss Ords in respect of the Gaolers place when he applied to you about it & is satisfied you never would make such a public declaration as is charged in the Anonymous Letter - he thinks you only said in general terms you should be glad to do any Service you could
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Trevelyan – 6 Apr 1770
To Wr. Trevelyan Esq. in London Newcas. 6th April 1770
under Cover to Sir Wr. Blackett
Inclosed is my Bill on Plumb & Browne for one hundred pounds for the quars. Rent Charge and Allowance due to you from Sir Wr. Blackett at Ladydy. last; which I should be glad to know that you receive safe. I have Sixteen pounds Seventeen shillings & Eight pence of your money in my hands: being the balance of the inclosed Acct. at the bottom
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 6 Apr 1770
To Mr John Bell at The House late Mr Newcas. 6 April 1770
Ellis’s in Hexham
Sir I received your letter about Isaac Walton which is very Satisfactory.
Dukesfield pay will be the beginning of May; against w[hi]ch time I wish you would be Collecting for me all the Money you can of the Tenants. & I desire you will wait upon Mr Errington’s Steward and acquaint him that the £470 was due at Ladydy. last on the Note to Sir Wr. Blackett; & t
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 7 Apr 1770
To Sir Wr. Blackett Bt. M.P. in Half Moon Street Newcas. 7th April 1770
Piccadilly London
Honrd Sir Since my last letter I have been at Wallington & do find that after 10 days or a fortnight Mr Duffield and Wm. Boult will not have Employment for above half a dozen Men each; which they say will be Sufficient to keep the gardens & plantations all in order. The building and walling that is to be done will cost above £
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 9 Apr 1770
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas. 9 April 1770
Sir Isaac Walton will bring you this Letter; I have had some conversation with him and think he is, from that and the Character you & other persons have given of him, a very proper person to take chage of Rookhope Mill; a much properer one than Mr John Harrison’s Elder Son can be, from what you and others say of him. & therefore I have, by virtue of the power Sir Wr. Blackett has given me in
Letter – Henry Richmond to Peter Simond – 11 Apr 1770
To Peter Simond Esq. Merchant Newcastle 11th April 1770
London
Sir Inclosed I send you Bell Cookson & Cos. four Bills on Glyn & Hallifax for Two Thousand pounds, as above, which I desire you will place to the Credit of Sir Wr. Blacketts Account and that you will please to advise me by return of the post that you have received these Bills and placed them accordingly. Sir Walter having settled it that
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 11 Apr 1770
To Sir Wr. Blackett Bt. M.P. in Half Moon Street Newcas. 11 April 1770
Piccadilly London
Honrd Sir I have this day received of my brother Two Thousand pounds which he says you have borrowed of Mr Robinson Wakefield; & have given him my receipt for the Money, which he required. I have paid him Seven Guineas for <procyration> Money , which he said it was his rule to have directly. I have by this post remitted
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 13 Apr 1770
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 13th April 1770
Dear Sir
We have this day Drawn upon you for Three Hundred and one Pounds Thirteen Shillings for 995 Ounces of Silver at 6-1/2d and including Carriage etc.
We are Dear Sir your most Hble Servt
Nich. Walton Junr
J Smeaton
Dear Sir. Farnacres 13th April 1770
Ten days after date pay to Mssrs Bell, Cookson, Carr, Airey & Saint or their Order Three Hundred and One Pounds Thirteen Value rece
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Trevelyan – 14 Apr 1770
To Walter Trevelyan Esq. Newcas 14th April 1770
under cover to Sir Wr. Blackett in London
Sir Inclosed is Bell Cookson & Cos bill on Glyn & Hallifax for Sixteen pounds Seventeen shillings & Eightpence for the balance of the Account between us. I shall be glad to
know that you receive the bill Safe I am etc HR
£16 . 17 . 8 Newcastle Bank 14th April 1770
Twenty days after date pay to th
Letter – Henry Richmond to Peter Simond – 14 Apr 1770
To Peter Simond Esq. Merchant Newcastle 14th April 1770
London
Sir Inclosed I send you Bell Cookson & Cos. bill on Glyn and Hallifax for Three hundred pounds payable at Twenty days from this day: which I desire you will place to Acct. with Sir Wr. Blackett & that you will please to advise me by return of the post that you have received the Bill & placed it accordingly I am etc HR
£300 . .
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 14 Apr 1770
To Sir Wr. Blackett Bt. M.P. in Half Moon Street Newcas. 14 April 1770
Piccadilly London
Honrd Sir I return you Thanks for the Interest you have been pleased to allow me for my £200 and for the offer you are so good as make with respect to any further Sum. The day I received your Letter I charged this £200 in my Cash Acct.; as I have also done Major Carr’s One hundred pounds which I received on the 13th instant. An
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 14 Apr 1770
Part of Messrs Walton & Smeatons Letter of 14th Apr 1770 to J Ibbetson Esq
We have been applied to by some of the principal Lessees of Mines in Alston Moor to lay it before the Board of Directors that they should contribute with them towards making convenient Roads in Alston Moor for the Carrying of the Lead Ore. The Governor & Company Wilkinson's Company and Sir Lanc. Allgood have already upwards of £400 in this Work of which Roads the Hospital has equally the advantage
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 15 Apr 1770
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 15th April 1770
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As the Weather seems now promising we hope the Lead Carriage may very soon be got to Work; but dont set them on till you see the Roads so dried as to make it in your Opinion proper to begin. Mr Hilton will call upon you in his way to Alston and inform you which of the Carriers are to be discontinued we shall notwithstanding here repeat what was given him. Thomas Corbett John Kirsopp John Wren and Wm Wren are not to carry Lead either fro
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 16 Apr 1770
To Sir Wr. Blackett Bt. M.P. in Half Moon Street Newcas. 16 April 1770
Piccadilly London
Honrd Sir I cannot think of anything material to write about at present; having in my two last letters mentioned all that has occurred. only lest any delay should happen in the payment of Mr Errington’s Money for want of a discharge from yourself, it may be right, as the Note is not endorsed, to sign the inclosed Authority to give
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 18 Apr 1770
To Sir Wr. Blackett Bt. M.P. in Half Moon Street Newcas. 18 April 1770
Piccadilly London
Honrd Sir The Merchant in Rotterdam that you Enquire after, must be Mr. Chas. Allan; who has been several times here. & whom you must have seen. His Father Mr Lyonel Allan, who married a Sister of Lady Tankerville’s , was employed in Mr Wilkinson’s Executorship to sell the IBL Lead in Rotterdam, that is the Mark at this day of yo
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 19 Apr 1770
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 19th April 1770
Barnatt met us yesterday as we were going to Throckley with a very Penitent face indeed. All the Answer we gave his Supplications were, that we could give him no Encouragement, but should write to you upon it, and in the mean time advised him to go home. We don't imagine that he will ever be otherwise than he has been and therefore cannot expect any lasting Reformation, however if you think it will serve the present purpose to give h
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Airey – 19 Apr 1770
An Accnt of Lead sent to Newcastle from Langley Mill 1768 & 1769
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No of Pieces
Refined Lead or GHL 7393
Refined Slag Lead or GHRS 366
Common Lead or GHO 5169
Common Slag Lead or GHOS 104
Total. 13032
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To Mr Thomas Airey & Son. Farnacres 19th A
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 21 Apr 1770
To Mr Darwin Greys Inn London Newcas. 21 April 1770
Sir Inclosed herewith is my bill on Plumb & Browne for Three hundred & fifteen pounds payable at 20 days from this date; wch. I send you on Acct. of the quarterly payments you have to make for Sir Wr. Blackett between 31 March last & 30 June next & desire you will send me a receipt for the same to be a Voucher to my Acct. with him & that you will express it in the usual
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 21 Apr 1770
Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 21st April 1770
Dear Sir
By this Weeks London Carrier we send you a Cake of Bullion weight 474 Ounces which we hope you will receive Safe on Saturday the 5th of May.
We should be glad to know whether you look upon it that the Silver, as soon as delivered to the Carrier, is at your risk or the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital.
Mr Smeaton proposes setting out for Austhorpe tomorrow. We are Dear Sir
Your most Hble Servt
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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Christopher Bell – 23 Apr 1770
Part of Messrs Walton & Smeaton's Letter of 23rd April 1770 To
Mr. Chrisr Bell
The Lead Carriers seem to be throwing out that they expect more price, or they will not carry any more Lead, be this as it may we are determined not to make the least alteration in our prices, and if we are driven to alter the Channel in which our Lead comes to Markett the Hexham Carriers may possibly wish they had continued carrying on the present footing. The Hospital have Tenants in the Neighb
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Newham Nicholson – 23 Apr 1770
To Mr Newham Nicholson. Farnacres. 23rd April 1770
Mr Nicholson
I would have you see some of the Carriers this day as by Accident and you may let them know that we did want a small Quantity of Lead brought down with all Expedition as we had promised it but that if they should disappoint us in the delivery it will not be any inconvenience to us further than that as we should be always glad to Oblige our Customers, when we can, and their Sterness at present will entirely prevent
Letter – John Ibbetson – 25 Apr 1770
At a Meeting of the Directors of Greenwich Hospital at Salters Hall on Wednesday 25th April 1770
A Letter from the Receivers dated the 14th Instant was read. Resolved That they be directed and empowered for the reasons they have given, to contribute the sum of £50 towards the making of Ore Carriage Roads in Alston Moor to be laid out on the place mentioned in their said Letter, or elsewhere as shall be found most convenient.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Thomas Brown – 28 Apr 1770
N Walton Junr will be obliged to Mr Brown for informing him whether Mr Bell and he can accommodate the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital with a place for their Lead conformable with their Agreement with the Corporation; and if they can, whether they (Mr Bell and Mr Brown) could let the Lead be brought to the place immediately, or they must have some, and what time til that may be done.
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Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 29 Apr 1770
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas. 29 April 1770
Sir I am desirous of knowing what is now doing at Rookhope Mill as well as what has been done ever since Xmas. for I have no Acct. either of the Smeltings delivery or Stock without wch. I cannot settle the last years Accts. and therefore beg you will as soon as possible send me the Months Acct. for Decemr. & let the rest follow when you are able to make them out. pray is Walton fixed
