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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Richard Noble – 8 Oct 1791

Mr Richd Noble Newcastle 8th Octor 1791 Bretton Yorkshire Sir Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at 40 days dated this day for £2000 on Sir Thomas Blackett’s Account Please to acknowledge the receipt of the Bill & acquaint Sir Thos with the same

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Letter – Thomas Richard Beaumont to Mark Skelton – 18 Oct 1791

Naples Octr. 18th 1791 Dear Skelton, I was in hopes of having had the pleasure of hearing from you before this time, as we are very glad to know what stirrings there are in our own Country, for letters are so long coming that it is an age before we can get an Answer. I am afraid you will think it very early my beginning to talk of money when I drew so lately, but in the month of February I shall be obliged to trouble you to remit me some to my Friend Hammersley, I have wrote to Rich

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Richard Noble – 19 Oct 1791

Mr Richd Noble Bretton Newcastle 19th Octor 1791 near Wakefield Yorkshire Sir According to Sir Thos Blackett’s Order I have Shipp’d, on Board the Goldthorpe Capt Brown for Hull, One Hundred & Twelve Pieces Refin’d Lead which I hope will come safe, the Weight & Price you have below I am etc J.E.B Q[uan]ty Cwt q lb 112 P[iece]s Refin’d Lead q 168 - -

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to John Beatson – 21 Oct 1791

Mr John Beatson Cinderhill NewC: 21st Octor 1791 near Wakefield Yorkshire Sir I received your Letter of the 7 ins[tan]t informing me that you had sent two Packs of Bends for the use of Sir Thos Blackett’s Lead mines amounting to £78- 15-10, & inclosed I send a Bill for that amount, drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at 40 days dated this day _ Please to advise me on your Reciept of the same

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Letter – Joshua Straker to Farrers & Atkinson – 15 Nov 1791

Messrs Farrers & Atkinson Newcastle 15th Nov 1791 Lincoln Inns Fields London Gentlemen Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at Forty days dated this for £440; £240 of wch is to pay half a Years Interest of £12000 at 4 per Cent due to Mrs Pill from Sir Jno Trevelyan Bart the 1st Decem next the remaining £200 is to enable you to pay Sir John Trevelyan’s

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Letter – Joshua Straker to Messrs Gosling – 15 Nov 1791

Messrs Gosling Bankers NewC 15th Nov 1791 Fleet Street London Gentlemn Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at Forty days dated this day for £112-10, being One Quarters Composition for the Tithe Ore of Weardale Lead Mines due 19th ins[tan]t from Sir Thos Blackett Bart to The Revd Henry Hardinge. As Mr Blackett is from home you will please to advise me on your Rec[eip

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Letter – Joshua Straker to William Emm – 15 Nov 1791

Willm Emm Esqr NewC. 15th Nov 1791 Auckland Castle Sir Inclosed you will recieve a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at forty Days dated this day for £231-5, being One Quarter of a Years Composition for the Lot Ore of Weardale Lead Mines due 26th ins[tan]t to the Lord Bishop of Durham from Sir Thos Blackett Bart _ As Mr Blackett is from Home you will please to advise me on your

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Ibbetson – 18 Nov 1791

Farnacres, 18th. Novem. 1791 Jn Ibbetson Esq. Sir, Herewith you receive the Moor Masters Reports of Mines worked and unworked in the Manor of Alston Moor for Nine Months ending at Midsummer last and also an Account of all the Lead Ore raised at the sundry Lead Mines in the Manor of Alston Moor from Mich[aelmas] 1789 to Michs. 1790 with the Duty thereof all which you are desired to lay before the Board. On the 28th Septemr. last we acquainted you with an intention of

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Nicholas Ruddock – 19 Nov 1791

Mr Nicholas Ruddock Farnacres 19th Novemr [1]791 Atty at Law Hexham Mr Nicholas Ruddock Dear Sir I have recd your favor inclosing Copies of Messrs Bates and Fryer’s Letter in answer to yours to them and of Mr Richardson’s Letter relative to the Division of the Hexhamshire and Allendale Commons. I do not think the Letter of the former <cod> be expected to obtain contain more or even so much as they have said but it shews eviden

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Letter – Joshua Straker to Augustus Browne – 21 Nov 1791

Auguss Browne Esqr NCastle 21st Novr 1791 Forster Lane London Sir I have this day sent you by Jacksons & Jennings the London Carriers a Piece fine Silver containing Sixteen Hundred & Eleven Ounces which I desire that you will place to Account with Sir Thos Blackett Bart as usual at the Market Price & advise me on your Receipt of it. I am for J E Blackett Esqr yours etc J.S

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to Nicholas Ruddock – 25 Nov 1791

Mr Nicholas Ruddock Farnacres 25th Novemr 1791 Attorney at Law Hexham Mr Nicholas Ruddock Dear Sir I have the Pleasure to inform you that the Commissrs and Governors of Greenwich Hospital at a Genl Court held the 17th Inst resolved to join in the intended Application to Parliament for an Act to divide the Allendale and Hexhamshire Commons provided the Terms upon which such Division may be proposed to be carried into Execution shall be f

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Letter – John Fryer to Nicholas Ruddock – 26 Nov 1791

Mr Ruddock Newcastle 26th Novr 1791 Attorney at Law Hexham Sir I have just had the Pleasure of seeing Mr Walton who informs me that he has received a Letter from the Commissioners and Governors of Greenwich Hospital and I think it likely he would meet the agents of Sr Thomas Blackett Bart upon the Ground to set out the Boundary between the Regality of Hexham and the Barony of Langley as claimed by the

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letter – Isaac Hunter to John Erasmus Blackett – 1 Dec 1791

J. E. Blackett Esqr Newcastle Dr Sir The Bearer Thomas Bowman Bellow-maker to Sir Thomas Blackett's works, has a Large & Small family, who has been off Work for sum time by a bad Hand. & Mr Ord who has been imployed says he must loss a Fingure & told him yesterday that he wished he would go to the Infirmary to have it taken off as his Eyes fail him - thinking that his not coming till next Thursday might be too late, have mad[e] free to send him of a taki

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Letter – Nicholas Ruddock to John Bell – 1 Dec 1791

Dear Sir I send you the Inclosed for your Perusal, and after having considered the Contents very deliberately, am clearly of Opinion that there is not any thing required on the part of Greenwich Hospital that can give Offence to Sir Thos Blackett or his Agents, in that if granted would amount to a Condescension. All that Mr Walton wants, according to his Letter of 19th Ultima, is a direct Intimation from Authority (i.e. from yourself, not thro’ me etc) that Sir Thos Blackett will consent t

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Letter – John Bell to Nicholas Ruddock – 2 Dec 1791

Mr Nics Ruddock Hexham Hexham Abbey 4th Decemr 1791 I have read over both Mr Walton’s Letters and that of Mr Fryer of as carefully and attentively as I can and assure Mr Ruddock that it is not [struck out: through any apprehension the fear] through Fear of condescending to Mr Walton nor is it that I crave Sir Thomas Blacketts Intimation of being willing to divide the Ground in Dispute with the Greenwich Hospital to come through me only but it is th

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Letter – Joshua Straker to London Lead Company – 12 Dec 1791

The Governor & Co for Smelting down Lead Newcastle 12th Decem 1791 St Martins Lane London Gentlemn I am desired by Mr Blackett to send you the Demise of the Lead Mines that you purchased of Sir Thos Blackett, & to inform you that he has drawn a Bill on you, of this date, payable to the Order of Thos Coutts Esqr & Co at Ten days after sight for £315 being the amount of the purchase Money _ Please to advise Mr Blackett on your Reciep

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Letter – Joshua Straker to G S Van Heythuyson – 12 Dec 1791

Van Heythuyson Esqr Newcastle 12th Decr 1791 Bedford Row London Sir I am desired by Mr Blackett to inform you that Sir Thos Blackett has consented to grant you a Lease for Twenty one Years of <Warnishaw> lead mine, subject to the usual Clauses in Lead Mine Leases, & what Erections you make upon the Premises to be left standing at the expiration of the Lease, Sir Thos Blackett’s Agent & Mr Milburn,

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Letter – Thomas Richard Beaumont to Mark Skelton – 27 Dec 1791

Naples Decr. 27th 1791 Dear Skelton, I am favoured with yours this Morning and am happy to find you are all well. It gives me great satisfaction to say that Diana has received every advantage from this climate we could wish, she has now been above two Months without any relapse of her Complaints, and begins to look very healthy – we think of leaving this place for Rome, if the weather will permit, in about a week, we shall remain there about Six Weeks, and then proceed on our Retu

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Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Augustus Browne – 31 Dec 1791

Augutus Browne Esqr Newcastle 31st Decemr 1791 Forster Lane London Sir I have this day sent you by the London Carriers a Piece fine Silver containing 1138 Oz w[hi]ch I desire that you will place to Account with Sir Thos Blackett Bart as usual at the Markett Price & advise me on your Receipt of it _ I shall draw a Bill on you on the 3d Jan[uar]y for £1000 at 30 days w[hi]ch I doubt not you will duly honor I

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Letter – Joshua Straker to Richard Noble – 31 Dec 1791

Mr Richd Noble Newcastle 31st Decemr 1791 Bretton Yorkshire D[ea]r Sir Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Eden Ridley & Co on Castell & Co at One Month dated this day for £2000 on Sir T. Bs Account for which you will please to send a Receipt as usual I am etc J.S £2000

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letter – Thomas Emerson – 1 Jan 1792

Queries to be answered What is the Wages of a Miner who directs the Shaft and superintends a few Workmen? If this is meant to be a principal Agent £100 PerAn: Is it more eligible to pay so much PerCent on the Produce or regular Wages? – and what PerCent? There are no mines in Northumberland Cumberland or Durham wrought this Way Is it esteemed a rich Mine that Produces from its washed State 13cwt.1Q.7lb in a Ton and Two Pennyweights of fine Silver in a Hundredweight whi

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Letters – Thomas Blackett to John Wentworth – 18 Jan 1792

Dear Sir, I wish you both a happy & Merry new year and many of them and I heartily congratulate you for having the respectable benefit and honor of the Province of N. Scotia and wish you long to enjoy them, if a better does not offer, and as for your being obliged to return to N.S. I hope that voyage may be delay’d some time, that I may have the pleasure of returning your kind visit and serving you in London this year, but it has been generally known in England & other countrys

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Letter – Nicholas Walton to John Dickinson – 25 Jan 1792

Dates of Proposal An Acc[oun]t of Proposals for Lead Mines 1790 Nov 6th Fairhill Flow Edge. Jno Bradwell & Thos Shaw. Sh[oul]d not this be entered in the working list and taken out of the unworked list. Same Dt John Waltons Proposal for discovery of Veins. Query if this was not given up by the Brownley Hill Company. It is so marked in our Proposal Book. It was given up and a new Proposal made 5 Febr[uar]y 1791 1791 Au

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Letter – Joshua Straker to Wheeldon & Webster – 2 Feb 1792

Messrs Wheeldon Webster & Wheeldon Newcastle 2rd Feby 1792 Derby Gentlemen I have Shipped for you on board the N[ew]Castle 16 Casks Lith[arge] Marked & Numbered & Directed as you desired the W[eigh]t of which you have below I am etc J.S 16 Casks Lith[arge] q[uantit]y 100 @ 20<..> per Ton 101- 5- Wherry hire & Sufferance 8-6 101-13

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Letter – John Bell to Nicholas Walton – 3 Feb 1792

Hexham Abbey, 3rd February. 1792 Gentlemen It being intended to apply to Parliament this Session for an Act to divide apart and stint the Residue of the Wastes within Hexhamshire and Allendale and there being an old Dispute between the Commrs. and Governors of Greenwich Hospital as Owners of the Barony of Langley and the Lords of the Regality of Hexham respecting a Tract of Land extending from near the White Crag contiguous to Allen Water to the Fence between Stublick and Elringt

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