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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 27 Nov 1778

To Mr. Peter Mulcaster. Farnacres 27th. Novemr. 1778. Mr Mulcaster The Errors following I have rectified in the several Operations Vizt. 30 May Greengill West End Bouse 11.6 altrd to 11.4 Cutting 2.2 altrd to 2.4 26 Sept Cornriggs Bouse 3.2 10/30 altrd to 3.1 10/30 Cornriggs Stock 15.1 15/30 altrd to 14.7 15/30 Novr.14 Guddmgll Bn X Vn.No2 Bouse 131.6 altrd to 133.2

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Bill – John Erasmus Blackett – 4 Dec 1778

£90 -. -. Newcastle Bank 4th Decemr 1778 Fourteen Days after date Pay to the Order of John Erasmus Blackett Esqr Ninety Pounds - Value received For Bell Cookson Carr Self & Saint To Messrs Castell Whately & Powell Jno Widdrington London Pay the Contents to Robt

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 5 Dec 1778

To Mr John Holmes Dear Sir This only serves to acquaint you that on the 28th Ulto a Box was delivered to the London Carrier directed to you containing 443 Ounces of fine Silver which I doubt will come to a bad Markett as I observe Dollars and Standard Barrs are 5s/2d p[er] Ounce in the last Loyds List. I an Dr Sir Yours &c. NW Junr. Farnacres 5 Decemr. 1778

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Edward Blackett – 6 Dec 1778

The Revd Doctor Blackett Newcas 6th Decr 1778 Stoke Plymouth Dear Sir I have this day sent Messrs Child & Co a Bill for Ninety Pounds due the 18th instant which will be one Years Interest on Sir Thomas Blacketts Bond to you for £2000 due the 2d instant. As I was uncertain of your being in Town I thought it advisable to send the Bill to your Banker to whom I have inclosed a Receipt for you to sign when y

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Bell – 6 Dec 1778

Mr John Bell Hexham Newcas 6th Decr 1778 Sir I received yours of the 4th and observe that you have received about Six hundred Pounds and can be here with it any day after Thursday next. I shall be at Home on Friday & Saturday next so you may come which ever day is convenient to you. I fear Sir Thos Blackett will be greatly disappointed at not receiving a larger Sum. I have already remitted him a £1000 & he

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 6 Dec 1778

Sir Thos Blackett Barot Newcas 6th Decr 1778 Bretton Yorkshire Dear Sir I am favoured with your Letter of the 28th Ulto acknowledging the Receipt of the two Bills for £1000. Mr Bell writes that he will bring me £600 the End of this Week by which I imagine your Tenants have fallen greatly Short in their Payments. I have wrote again to him acquainting him that you do expect they will pay up for I must have £1

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Trevelyan – 8 Dec 1778

Sir Jno. Trevelyan Baro[ne]t Nettlecombe Newcas. 8th Decemr. 1778 Near Taunton Somersetshire Dear Sir I received your Favour of the 11th Ult[im]o & am very glad to hear that yourself & Family are well. My Friend Mosley & I went to Wallington the 29th _ I received the Rents that day and the next morning & returned Home in the Evening The Tenants paid up much better than I expected considering the Price of Corn the l

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Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Joseph Gildart – 11 Dec 1778

Mr Joseph Gildart Congleton Newcas. 11th Decemr. 1778 Cheshire Sir Mr Blackett desires me to acquaint you that he has received your Letter of the 6th Novem[be]r last respecting the Int[e]rest due to Blackett Midford upon the £200 left him by the late Sir W[alte]r Blackett The Int[e]rest upon it is to Commence from the 14th Febr[uar]y last (agreeable to a Letter wrote you by Mr. Blackett on the 26th Novem[be]r 1777) so that

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Letter – Isaac Hunter to Thomas Smith – 13 Dec 1778

Mr Thos. Smith Rookhope Dukesfield 13th. Decr. 1778 Sir When I come to reflect upon the Accot. you gave me yesterday in regard to the New Bellows, cannot help thinking it a matter of more consequence then the discharge of a Smelter as (by your Letter) that seems to be your only desire, I cannot help saying that it was a falt in you to leave the Mill while they were Smelting & I hope it will be a caution to you for the future never to leave the Mill while [struck out: ‘Smel

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Blackett – 13 Dec 1778

Sir Thos Blackett Barot Bretton Newcas 13th Decr 1778 Yorkshire Dear Sir Mr Bell was with me Yesterday, he could only get £650 which Sum he paid me on Account of Hexham Rents and I shall bring a Bill or Bills with me to that Amount. Mr Bell expects he shall be able to pay me about £600 more the Middle of January which shall be remitted to you if you think proper. I hope to be with you the 19th instant & a

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Plumb & Brown – 13 Dec 1778

Messrs Plumb & Browns Forster Lane Newcas 13th Decemr 1778 London Gentn Inclosed I send you your Account with Sir Thos Blackett The Balance in his Favour £342. 3s. 9d for which I have drawn a Bill on you dated 12th instant at 30 days date payable to the order of Messrs Bell Cookson & Co which you will please to accept & place to Account. I shall send you a ps of fine Silver the beginning of next Month. In your next

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Francis Scott – 13 Dec 1778

Francis Scott Esq Cheapside Newcas 13th Decemr 1778 No 27 London Sir I am favoured with your Letter of the 9th instant & observe that the India Co have given £13.5s.0d p Ton for Lead this Year and that at present it is sold in London at £13 p Ton. You may have here any Quantity of Sir Thomas Blacketts Lead you please at the following Prices - £12.17s.6d p Fother for the sort usually sent to India & £13.2s.6d p

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 13 Dec 1778

Mr Thomas Wall Paper Buildings Newcas 13th Decr. 1778 Temple London Sir Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs. Bell Cookson and Co on Messrs. Castell Whately & Powell dated 4th instant at 30 days for Two Hundred Pounds to make the Quarterly Payments on Sir John Trevelyans Account from 31 Decem[be] to 31st March next for which you will please to send me your Receipt as usual. I am etc JEB.

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Robert Child – 14 Dec 1778

Robt Child Esqr & Co Bankers London Newcas 14th Decr 1778 Gentn I wrote to you on the 6th instant (under Cover to Robert Child Esqr) and inclosed you a Bill drawn by Bell Cookson and Co on Castell Whately & Powell dated 4th instant at 14 Days date for Ninety Pounds and desired it might be placed to the Account of The Revd Doctor Blackett. As you have not advised me of the Receipt of such Bill I am apprehensive that it may have miscarried

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 15 Dec 1778

To Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 15 Decemr. 1778 Dear Sir We have this day drawn upon you for £123..13..5 being the Amount of Four Hundred and Forty Three Ounces of fine Silver at 5s/7d p[er] Ounce – a bad Market indeed Walton & Turner [The following section before the bill has been struck out:] I am obliged to you for the Notice you take of my Son and am in haste to save the Post. Dear Sir Your &c. NW Junr. PS. Be so good as send the

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Letters – Thomas Blackett to John Wentworth – 26 Dec 1778

Bretton, Decr. 26th 1778 Dear Sir, I can only return you my cordial thanks for the trouble you have taken in sending me news, dispatches and American Papers for it is out of my power & Yorkshire to furnish anything like them. Fate and time will certainly produce some good, and some bad, but our Ministers & Co: are bewitched to promote only the latter. It may be uncommon now a days to mention a wife to a Husband, but excuse me for once; when I desire you to make

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 26 Dec 1778

To Mr. Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 26th Decemr. 1778 Mr Mulcaster We have yours of the 19th inst. and the Silver is arrived at Newcastle. It gives us pleasure to see your produce so good in the reducing and we hope there will be no difficulty in settling the matter between Carr and Elliot but think Carr shd. pay a Guinea. It seems proper to continue John Craig, & to be sure Bill Brown never can be admitted to work for us again. You are desired to make a Tryal with Dunwoo

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 28 Dec 1778

To Mr. Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 28th Decemr. 1778 Mr Mulcaster We have reced. yours of the 21st and duly note its Contents. The Quantities of Coals as reported by the Carriers we suppose may be right but must desire you will enquire of Thomas French and the two Joes whether the quantities they charge are the whole of what they have carried since the beginning of Nent Force Level, for if that shd. prove to be the case, we find we have paid Thomas French for 100 Load 30th May l

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 29 Dec 1778

To Mr. John Holmes Farnacres 29th Decemr. 1778. Dear Sir On the 26th. Inst. we delivd. to the London Carrier a Box directed to you containing 822 ¾ [corrected to 822 ¼ in the margin] Ounces of fine Silver which hope may come to a Better Market than the others lately sent tho’ not many Signs of that present themselves to us. We are &c W. & T.

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Letter – Cuthbert Peart to Plumb & Brown – 2 Jan 1779

Messrs Plumb & Browne Goldsmiths London Newcas 2d Janry 1779 Gentn I have this day sent you by John & James Jackson London Carriers (in Mr Blacketts Absence) a piece of fine Silver containing Eleven Hundred & Sixty six Ounces which I desire you will place to Account with Sir Thomas Blackett Barot as usual at the Market price & advise on your Receipt of It. I am etc CP oz A ps fine Si

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Selby Ord – 4 Jan 1779

Mr Selby Ord at Longfarmacres Newcas 4th Janry 1779 [should be 1780] Near Dunse No[rth] Britain Sir I received your very extraordinary Letter of the 25th Ulto. which indeed does not merit an Answer The Bond for £1000 the Gift of my Relation & valuable Friend I intended paying in May last had I not been disappointed of the Money. I told Mr Logan that I would if possible pay it some time in Decem[be]r last but would not make any Promise as Mr

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 6 Jan 1779

To Mr. Peter Mulcaster Farnacres 6th Jany. 1779 Mr Mulcaster Having examined your Operation ending the 26th Ulto. I find the following Errors. In the Account of Ore Smelted Greengill West End Bouse 37:4 shd be 37:6 Cutting 9:6 shd be 9:4 Yours of the 4th Instant is this Moment come to hand and the Agreement you have made with Dunwoodie is approved. I thank you for the information you have given me respecting the Coals.

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Holmes – 13 Jan 1779

To Mr John Holmes Farnacres 13th Janury. 1779 Dear Sir Yesterday I recd. your favor of the 9th. Inst. and have this day drawn upon you pay.ble 30 days after Date for £223.4.11 being the Amount of 822 ¼ Ounces of fine Silver at 5s/7d p[er] Ounce after deducting Six Pounds Six Shillings for a Watch for my Son John. The Difference of Weight must have arose from some Mistake in the person who weighed the Cake of Bullion previous to its being sent from Newcastle. I am v

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Messrs Child – 25 Jan 1779

Messrs Child & Co Bankers London Newcas 25th Janry 1779 Gentn Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs Bell Cookson & Co on Castell Whately & Powell for One Hundred & fifty seven Pounds ten Shillings for one half Years Composition for Weardale Tithe Ore due from Sir Thomas Blackett Barot to the Revd Dr Thurlow the 15th February next. When you are in Cash for the same you will please to send me Dr Thurlows Receipt &

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Wall – 25 Jan 1779

Mr Thomas Wall Paper Buildings Newcas 25th Janry 1779 Temple London Sir I received yours of the 19th Ult. inclosing your Receipt for £200 on account of the Quarterly Payments Inclosed you have a Bill drawn by Messrs. Bell Cookson & Co on Castell Whately & Co dated 14th instant at one Months Date for Five Hundred pounds to pay Sir Edwd. Winningtons half Years Intrest on the late Sir Walter Blacketts Bond & Mortgage for £

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