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Letter – Henry Richmond to John Bell – 15 May 1770
To Mr John Bell at Hexham Newcas. 15 May 1770
Sir I write to you by Mr Simpson’s desire whom I have seen today, & who says that tho Mrs Jurin did at first suppose she had a Right to the Boats & Rope etc yet she now does not claim them, but allows that they are included in Sir Walter Blacketts purchase. For he says he has satisfied her that in the treaty he had with Sir Wr. abo[u]t, the Boat & Boatrake all the property she had in t
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 16 May 1770
To Mr Wm. Alvey Darwin Newcas. 16 May 1770
Gray’s Inn London
Sir Inclosed I send you Bell Cookson & Cos. bill on Glyn & Hallifax for four hundred pounds payable at 20 d[ays] from 11 inst. Sir Wr Blackett bid me send you a bill for this Sum in May to enable you to discharge some tradesmens bills that he left unpaid. So you will please to place the same to his Credt. in your Acct with him & send me a Receipt acco
Letter – Henry Richmond to Richard Wilson – 18 May 1770
To Richard Wilson Esq. at Leeds Newcas. 18 May 1770
Yorkshire
Sir Mr King tells me he has wrote you that he cannot conveniently pay his rent at this time, & that he has proposed paying you interest as usual, for the forbearance: So I thought it best to remit you your three hundred pounds on Acct. of the Rents I have received: & accordingly have sent you inclosed Bell Cookson & Cos. bill on Glyn & Hallifax f
Letter – Henry Richmond to Revd Oliphant – 22 May 1770
To The Rev. Mr Oliphant at Rothbury Newcas. 22nd May 1770
Sir I have Sir Walter Blacketts Order to pay two Apprentices fees of Thirty pounds each for two of your Sons. But as he expressly orders me to take Care that the Money is applyed to That use only you must not expect I can pay it until the Masters of the Boys come with you to receive it & bring the Indentures along with them. I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Jonathan Hilton – 22 May 1770
To Mr Jonat. Hilton. Farnacres 22nd May 1770
Sir,
Soon after the application of the Lessees of Lead Mines in Alston Moor for the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to contribute towards the making of Roads for Carriage of the Lead Ore from the Mines we wrote the Secretary of Greenwich Hospt and have the pleasure to inform you that the Board have been pleased to impower us to contribute Fifty Pounds towards the Expense of the Ore Carriage Roads within the Ma
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 23 May 1770
To Sir Walter Blackett Bart. at Messrs Hope Newcas. 23 May 1770
& Compy in Amsterdam
Honrd Sir Your Letter from Brussels came in six days, & I was glad to find by it that you were better. It is Opportunity rather than Occasion that prompts me to write now: for nothing material has happened since my Last. Our patriots indeed have sent a Remonstrance in haste to the Throne; which is but a poor production and signed only as the Instru
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Smeaton – 23 May 1770
Part of Mr Walton Junrs Letter of 23rd May 1770 to Mr Smeaton.
I have agreed for a Lease of a Cellar or Warehouse in Sandgate for Fourteen Years and you are joint with me; we are to be free on twelve Months Notice. It is for lodging the Lead in and will I dare say hold any Quantity we shall ever have occasion to put into it. The Rent is £8.8 p Annum and a Person constantly on the Spot of whom it is taken will keep an Account of the Lead brought in by the Carriers from time to time
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 23 May 1770
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 23rd May 1770
Dear Sir
Your Letter of the 12th Instant I was favoured with on my return from a little Journey I had been taking Northward.
I have this day Drawn upon you for £142.2.9 Payable as usual Ten days after date Particulars as follows:
474 Ounces of Silver Bullion at 6s - 1/2d £143.3.9
Deduct a Miners Compass 1.1
£142.2.9
Letter – Henry Richmond to Christopher Johnson – 24 May 1770
To Mr Chrisr. Johnson Attorney at law Newcas. 24 May 1770
in Durham
Sir Inclosed I send you, according to your desire, a Copy of the Deputation to take the Surrenders of Sir Walter Blackett and myself to Mr Ward; & also Copy of those Surrenders from us to him; and shall be very glad to see you on Monday as you propose. I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to Matthew Reynaldson – 29 May 1770
To Mr Reynaldson at Blaydon Newcas. 29 May 1770
Sir I should be glad to know what you are a doing. I desired you to send me every week an Acct. of what Lead you have received and yet I am forced to write every Week for it - last Wednesday you said you expected to get all the Lead in that day or the day following and yet you have not made up your Tickets so that we cannot get a pay made tho’ all the Country is waiting for it.
Pray let me
Letter – Henry Richmond to Isaac Hunter – 29 May 1770
To Mr Isaac Hunter at Dukesfield Newcas. 29 May 1770
Sir I have received your Accts. this morning and have fixed your pay to be on Thursday Se’night, the seventh of June. So you will give notice accordingly at Stagshaw and on Sunday; & will be here on Monday Evening, receive your money on Tuesday, go home on Wednesday, and pay it away on Thursday. If you have any objection to the day I have fixed, you may alter it to any other you think more con
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Smeaton – 1 Jun 1770
Part of. Mr Walton Junrs Letter of 1st June 1770 to Mr Smeaton.
Mr. Mulcaster writes me that the Stamp Mill cannot go when the Refinery is at Work it takes when the Work together more Water than will Work four pair of Bellows and the Troughs which carry the Water to the Refinery Wheel will not even contain so much Water as is necessary to Work the Stamp Mill and Refining bellows at one Time.
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 2 Jun 1770
To Mr Darwin Grays Inn London Newcas. 2 June 1770
Sir I have received the Deed for the Purchase of Hexham Ferry Boat & Boat rake, by Mr <Burden>. & Mrs Jurin has sent me the Letters of Attorney which I have got Mr Colpitts to execute today, & shall, as she desires, return the same to her by tomorrows post, at the Hermitage, near Hexham so I conclude I shall hear soon that the Surrenders are made to Sir Wr. Blacket
Letter – Henry Richmond to Mary Jurin – 2 Jun 1770
To Mrs Jurin at the Hermitage Newcas 2 June 1770
Madam Inclosed I return you the Letters of Attorney executed by Mr Colpitts this Morning. I have not made an affidavit of the Execution because I am told the Steward of the Court will not require it, as he knows my hand very well: but if it should be necessary I shall do it at any time. I hope the Surrenders will now be soon completed and that Mr Heron will write me when they are
Letter – Henry Richmond to Revd Oliphant – 2 Jun 1770
To The Revd. Mr Oliphant at Rothbury Newcas 2 June 1770
Sir In answer to your Letter of the 29 ulto. I should be sorry to give any unnecessary trouble to you, or to the Masters of the Boys, about the payment of the Money ordered by Sir Walter Blackett for putting two of them out to Business: And therefore if Mr Storey cannot come to Newcastle for the Thirty pounds for your Elder Sons Apprentice fee, your shewing me the Indentures &
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 3 Jun 1770
Mr. Mulcaster. Farnacres 3rd June 1770
Your letter of the 29th Ult I received on Friday last and in answer take the first opportunity of informing you that I think it will be most convenient in every respect to go in with the Unrefineable Ore til you see the contrary.
We have never had a right Tryal made of Old Cowslitts Ore whether it will refine or not, I suppose it will not but it will certa
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 8 Jun 1770
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres. 8th June 1770
I desire youll inform me as soon as you can how your Stock of Bone Ashes stands and how long you expect those you have will last til you ought to have new.
Tho' you may perhaps think we have not observed what you recommended as to the Dam in the hollow above the Mill, you may rest assured it is not forgot and will be considered the first time we see you. I
Letter – Henry Richmond to Christopher Johnson – 9 Jun 1770
To Mr Chrisr. Johnson at Durham Newcas. 9 June 1770
Sir I am sorry I was abroad when you sent your Servant to enquire after the Lease and Release from Sir Wr. Blackett, which you say is wanting - but I hope you will find them soon. however you did not leave them here, I assure you - I remember you asked your Son, as he was going out of my Office, if he had the Deeds. & he showed you one Bundle which you said was not what you mea
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 10 Jun 1770
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres 10th June 1770
I have tryed the Assays, and the piece of Silver Answers exceedingly well to them, but this Cake, as well as the last, falls considerably Short in Quantity pFodder, compared with former Operations. We can however expect no more than the Lead itself will afford, and as the Quantity of Silver answers the Assays we must rest assured that the Work has been properly done.
I thi
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 10 Jun 1770
To Mr John Holmes. Farnacres 10th June 1770
Dear Sir
Yesterday I sent by the London Waggon Francis Finley 450 Ounces of Silver Bullion, the Carriage of which is not paid. I hope you will receive it Safe ( at the risk of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital) on Saturday 23rd instant. I am in haste
Dear Sir Yours etc
NWalton Junr
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 14 Jun 1770
A Mr. Monsr. Le Chevalier Blackett, Seigneur Anglois Newcas. 14th June 1770
chez Monsr. Oglevy - A Spa En Germanie - < > Ostende
Honrd Sir Your Letter from Antwerp gave me That Satisfaction which the Assurance of your Health must ever give me,
Since my Letter, directed to Hope & Cos, Mr Ward has paid his Money, and I have made Dukesfield pay which came to near £5000 - but the Ferry is not yet paid for, as Mrs Jurin etc have not completed
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Salter – 18 Jun 1770
To Mr John Salter. Farnacres 18th June 1770
Dear Sir
Since receiving your Letter of 26th May,for which we are much obliged to you, we have made Enquiry what Quantity of Bone Ashes will be wanted this year and find One Hundred Casks will do; you will therefore be so good as Order that Quantity. If they arrive at any Time before the latter end of October, it will Answer the End, but we shall like to receive the first Fifty Casks rather sooner. We are with best respects
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 24 Jun 1770
Mr Mulcaster. Farnacres. 24th June 1770
The Lead Mill Pay will be on the 29th October being a Monday and the day following we shall pay the Lead Carriers.
I have Ordered 100 Casks of Bone Ashes and expect to receive them before Winter some time.
I doubt we can scarce depend upon our present Carriers to take off our whole Quantity; indeed they seem determined to try whether we can make use of the Hospitals Interest with the Tenants or not. If we make that Expe
Letter – Henry Richmond to Simond & Hankey – 25 Jun 1770
To Messrs Simond & Hankey Merchants Newcas 25th June 1770
London
Gentlemen Inclosed is Bell Cookson & Cos. bill on Glyn & Hallifax for One hundred pounds, which I send you by the desire of Wr. Trevelyan Esq. you will please to place it to his account & advise me accordingly. I am etc HR
£100 . . Newcastle Bank 15 June 1770
Thirty days after date pay to the order of Mr Heny Ric
Letter – Henry Richmond to Thomas Duffield – 26 Jun 1770
To Mr Duffield at Wallington Newcas. 26 June 1770
Sir Mr Evans says you have some Pine Apples and Grapes fit to cut. If so, I desire you will chuse four good Pine Apples and pack them carefully in a Box that will bear Carriage to London - they must be from the Small Hothouse & must be brought to me that I may put the directions upon them. As to any other Pine Apples that may be now ripe, you may, as it is our race week, sen
