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Letter – Henry Richmond to George Selby – 24 Apr 1774
Mr George Selby Attorney at Law in Alnwick Newcas 24th April 1774
Sir
I received a Lre by this days post from Mr Darwin by which I find he does not know any thing of what is doing about the Conveyance , from Sir Walter to Mr Selby, of Unthank Estate - now this I wonder at as I acquainted you that Mr Darwin was Sr Wr’s Attorney in London and that Mr Lodge might apply to him for any thing wanted - The time is now far spent and Sir Walter is uneasy at Mr Darwi
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 25 Apr 1774
To Mr John Holmes Farnacres 25th April 1774
Dear Sir
By the London carrier who set out from Newcastle on Saturday I sent you a Box containing 981 ounces of fine silver.
On the 13th instant I sent you a Newcastle Salmon which I hope arrived safe and proved good. It was a day later than I had intended on account of my not being able to get one the day I had fixed upon.
This day I write to brother Smeaton who is I suppose at Austhorpe or upon the Road between London and
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 29 Apr 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 29th April 1774
Sir
I wrote Mr Geo: Selby as you desired and he says the Drafts of the Conveyance of Unthank have been lying before Mr Duane since the Middle of March & that your neighbour Mr Lodge can tell better than he what progress Mr Duane has made & what the Delay is owing to - Mr Lodge and you have had some Conversation I understand about preparing the Copies of the proper Deeds & I
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Westgarth – 2 May 1774
John Westgarth Esqr at Unthank Newcas 2d May 1774
near Stanhope in Weardale
Sir
I have the favour of your Letter of the 27th alto saying you are at a Loss to make proposals for a Tack of a Lead mine as you do not know Sr Wr Blacketts Terms for Duty etc - I also have your Lre to Sr Walter on this subject which he desires me to answer: I cannot answer these Lres better than by referring you to my Lre of 17th May 1769 w
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 3 May 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 3rd May 1774
Sir
In this and three other Covers you will receive back the Draft of the Conveyance from Sir Walter Blackett to Mr Selby - also a Copy of two Awards adjusting the Inn grounds & Out grounds of East Ord and also a Copy of Sir Walters purchase of the Threap Colliery from Mr Lisle - Some of the Notes made in the margin of the draft I think should not have been made there & therefore
Letter – Henry Richmond to George Selby – 4 May 1774
Mr George Selby in Alnwick Newcas Wednesdy 4 May 1774
Sir
To my great Surprise I received Letters from Mr Darwin on Sunday last inclosing the draft of the Conveyance of Unthank with several Queries made by him in the Margin of it & a Letter with several more all tending to satisfy his doubts about the parcels etc which he said appeared to him very confused and uncertain - These Queries he might have made on his receiving the Copy of the
Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 4 May 1774
Sir Wr Blackett Bt MP Half moon street Newcas 4 May 1774
Piccadilly London
Honr Sir
By Sundays Post I received from Mr Darwin the draft of the Conveyance of Unthank Estate with a great many Queries in the Margin of it & in his Letter which he might have made on the papers I sent him on the 16th of March last; however I answered them and returned him the draft by Yesterdays post and hope he will lose no time in getting
Letter – Jonathan Hilton to Germaine Lavie – 7 May 1774
A Copy of a Letter sent Mr. Lavie Alston 7th May 1774
Sir,
I wrote you the 4th Ult & gave as particular accts of the state of the Lead Mines as I could & expected an Answer before now as I told you my intention of begining Smelting the Middle of this Month & that the present Mill Agent Simpson could not from his other Business attend the Smelt Mill as it ought to be attended neither did I think him a Judge Smelting Refining &ca & as you were so obliging when Simpso
Letter – Henry Richmond to Plumb & Brown – 7 May 1774
Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths Foster Lane London Newcas 7h May 1774
Gentn
I sent you Yesterday by Francis Ridley the London Carrier a piece of fine Silver containing Nine hundred & Eleven Ounces; which I desire you will place to Accot with Sir Walter Blackett Bt as usual, at the Market price & advise me on your Receipt thereof I am etc HR
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Robert Hornsby – 12 May 1774
Messrs Walton & Smeaton present their compliments to Mr Hornsby and in answer to his application to Mr Walton now take the opportunity of informing him that they understand his circumstances are such as very much to set him above the sphere of life as a common Refiner; and tho Mr Hornsby’s views of Industry are in themselves laudable, yet as the person that serves Greenwich Hospital in this way must necessarily be under a kind of subjection and restraint, which they cannot expect from a ma
Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Walter Blackett – 13 May 1774
Sir Walter Blackett Bt MP Half moon Street Newcas 13th May 1774
Piccadilly London
Dear Sir
Inclosed you will receive Messrs Bell & Cos bill on Messrs Hallifax & Co for three hundred pounds. You will be pleased to acknowledge the Receipt of this Bill I am etc JEB
£300-.-. Newcastle Bank 13th May 1774
Twenty days after date pay to the order or John Erasmus Blackett Esqr Three hundred pounds - value received For
Letter – Henry Richmond to John Grey – 16 May 1774
Mr John Grey Attorney at Law Berwick upon Tweed Newcas 16th May 1774
Sir
Inclosed I return you the Draft of the Conveyance from Sir Walter Blackett to Mr George Malcolm and have made some Alterations in it and filled up the Blank for the Date - which I hope you will approve of and if so you may get it ingrossed and send it hither for Execution on Sr Wr’s coming to Newcastle which I suppose will be the beginning of next Month - I am obliged
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 17 May 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 17th May 1774
Sir
The Objection made by Sir Thos Clavering to the Blanchland and Hexham Boundary Bill is reasonable - for the Freeholders and Copyholders adjoining to the Ground in dispute have a Right of Common upon it and without their Consent the Bill may be objected to and lost for this Sessions tho’ it manifestly is for their Advantage to have the Bounder fixed Now; lest the Inroads that hav
Letter – Henry Richmond to Robert Morrow – 19 May 1774
Mr Robt Morrow at Blaydon Newcas 19 May 1774
Sir
I have not yet got your Years Rental ending Mayday 1773 tho I have often asked you for it - I am now at a Stand for Want of it & you will be blamed if you don’t bring it me on Saturday next I am etc HR
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Caleb Hunter – 23 May 1774
Dukesfd. 23d. May 1774
Mr. C. Hunter Allanhds
Being ingaged to Mr. R. Lowes for his Tenant Thos. Bell Raw Green, I desire you’ll order Mr. R. Allgood to let him have Ore twice a Week f’m Your Groves for this Season. I shall not admit of any excuse for Mr. Allgood’s not complying wth. the above request, knowing that it can be no inconvenience to him to let a Man have 12 H’s of ore in the Week as he only drives 6 Horses. & am
yrs &c IH Jr.
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Westgarth Forster – 23 May 1774
D.f. 23d. May 1774
Mr. W. Foster at Coalcleugh
Sr.
I desire you’ll forward Thos. Bell of R[aw].G[reen]. a catch of Ore a Week for this Season
IH Jr.
Letter – Isaac Hunter to C. Kidd – 23 May 1774
Mr. C. Kidd Kilhope
I desire if you have any Ore Ready that you’ll send it here as soon as possible for Mr. <R> wants some of that Ld. & we have a Weeks Work at the Mill you’ll please to let Thos Bell have a catch of Ore in the Week this Season f’m yr grove & am
yrs. &c I Hunter
Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 24 May 1774
To Mr John Holmes Farnacres 24th May 1774
Dear Sir
We were duly favoured with your letter of the 7th inst and have this day drawn upon you for £279-19-10 being the amount of 981 ounces of silver at 5/8 ½ p ounce, and we are glad to hear the silver market seems upon the advance
It gives us pleasure to hear the mustard proved an agreeable present & Mr Walton is glad the salmon came fresh to Town and that the losing of a day in sending it ws so lucky.
By the London carrier w
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 24 May 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 24th May 1774
Sir
The Query that Mr Duane has made respecting the Quarries in that part of the Town[shi]p of East Ord called Middle Ord, and what you say about it, is certainly right - for Sir Walter should not convey away the Quarries in his own Estates - Mr Selby bought only the Coalmines in the Town[shi]p of East Ord and Sr Wr afterwards voluntarily added the Leadmines & Quarries to the pur
Letter – Henry Richmond to William Darwin – 25 May 1774
Mr Darwin No 4 Hatton Street London Newcas 25th May 1774
Sir
It seems to me necessary that Sir Walter should have a Counterpart of the Deed of Conveyance of Unthank on Accot of the Covenant about double Damage etc and I have mentioned it before but if Mr Duane thinks so it would have more weight with Mr Selby if he would advise accordingly upon the Draft I am etc HR
Letter – Henry Richmond to Daniel Alder – 27 May 1774
Mr Daniel Alder at Adderstone near Belford Newcas 27h May 1774
Sir
I have sent you Mr Bacon Forster’s Ex[ecu]tors Account of their proportion of Weardale Rents etc for the last Year & also their Accot with Sir Walter Blackett for the last five years. I have often asked Mr Johnson, but in vain, for the Money due on the four former Years Accounts and therefore now send the whole to you hoping your Attention to the carrying forwa
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Henry Richmond – 30 May 1774
Dukesfd. 30th. May 1774
Mr. H Richmond N Castle
Sr.
I have taken f’m the Accots. the Charge of the Peats at Rookhope Mill f’m the Year 1760 to the p[as]t year and the quantity of Ld. made at the Ore Hearth in the sd. time, and find that the Peats has cost upon an average 18 ½ d p[er] Ton of Lead. I suppose there’s several Days charged for Wet Peats &c wch. I have not in the Accot for I took nothing but what was expressly so mentioned in the Accots. The Quantit
Letter – Isaac Hunter to Robert Morrow – 30 May 1774
Dukesfd. 30th. May 74
Mr. Morrow Blaydon
Dr Sr.
When at Apperley Lane the other Day I found that some of the Carriage Men play Tricks wth. the Woman that keeps the Gate there by getting some of the Co.s Draugts through the Barr wth. them. I desire that youll acquaint them all, that who’ever of them any way deceives the Woman there or is any way aiding the Co’s Ld to pass the above Barr or connives at its passing along that Lane, shall be immediately discharged f’m S
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 31 May 1774
Mr Mulcaster Farnacres 31st May 1774
As we cannot make our cash account and cash upon the Hexham Rece.s to agree must desire you will carefully examine your accounts and Cash and try whether you find they have been properly settled at the Pay and at Farnacres. We are in doubt whether you might not receive the Money you had paid on Account to the Smelters &c when we were at Hexham, except Henry Smiths money which you had paid him on Account & Lionel Charltons on Acct of leda car
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Joseph Hilton – 31 May 1774
Mr Joseph Hilton. Farnacres 31st May 1774
Mr Hilton
I am surprised you should so much misunderstand us about Mr Mulcaster as to think he had done wrong in employing Wm Wilson our direction to you being that he was not in future to take any of the Companys or any other Persons Smelters without leave unless there was a necessity and you were told that leave had been given to Wilson which tho' not given in any genteel way we yet thought it proper to
