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Letter – Martin Morrison to Matheus & Son – 7 Oct 1816
N[ew]Castle 7 October 1816
Messrs Matheus & Son – Rouen
I acknowledge the rec[eip]t of your Letter of the 30 Ult enclosing a Bill for £288-8-6, which is passed to the Credit of your Account. The Nett proceeds of my consignment has fallen so short of my expectations and so much below the cost price, that at present, and until your markets improve and continue without depression, there is no inducement to export. At 62 fra[nc]s the 100 K[ilogra]ms which you first quoted, an ade
Letter – Martin Morrison to Gosling & Sharp – 11 Oct 1816
N[ew]Castle 11th October 1816
Messrs Goslings & Sharpe Bankers London
Remitting £375 on Revd Henry Hardings Acc[oun]t for ¼ y[ea]rs Composition for Tithe Ore due this day
Memo – Martin Morrison to Rundell Bridge & Rundell – 15 Oct 1816
N[ew]Castle 15 October 1816
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising a piece of Silver 1352 Oz pWaggon 1 inst MM
Memo – Martin Morrison to Diana Beaumont – 29 Oct 1816
N[ew]Castle 29 October 1816
Mrs Beaumont Bretton Hall
Transmitting quarterly Reports of the Mines etc MM
Memo – Martin Morrison to Rundell Bridge & Rundell – 9 Nov 1816
N[ew]Castle 9 Novem[be]r 1816
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising a p[ie]ce Silver of 1257 Oz pWaggon 8 inst MM
Memo – Martin Morrison to Rundell Bridge & Rundell – 20 Nov 1816
N[ew]Castle 20th Novem[be]r 1816
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising 2 pieces of Silver containing 2468 Oz pWaggon this day MM
Memo – Martin Morrison to Diana Beaumont – 22 Nov 1816
N[ew]Castle 22nd Novem[be]r 1816
Mrs Beaumont Bretton
Transmitting Cash Account and Lead Sales for last month – MM
Letter – Martin Morrison to Glyn Mills & Co – 27 Nov 1816
N[ew]Castle 27 Novem[be]r 1816
Messrs Glyn Mills & Co Bankers London
Remitting 5 Bills value £10,878-18-2. MM
Letter – Thomas Crawhall to William Ford – 3 Dec 1816
Mr Wm Ford Leith NewCastle Dec[embe]r 3rd 1816
Sir
Mr Morrison having set out for London on Sunday morning last without leaving your <…> Bill with me, or stating the Amo[unt] of Charges thereon, I can not exactly state them to you, but acknowl[edg]e the rec[eipt] of your two D[ra]fts in lieu thereof, am[oun]t £68-13-1 to your Credit in Account with TRB <by>.
On Mr Morrisons return the D[ra]ft on Harding will be sent you – I believe the Charges thereon t
Letter – Martin Morrison to Thomas Bowes – 20 Dec 1816
N[ew]castle 20th Dec[embe]r 1816
Thos Bowes Esq Darlington
Sir
In consequence of a letter rec[eiv]ed f[ro]m Mr <Rand..> dated the 17th Inst requesting a Statement of Profits on an average of five years, up to the 5th April 1816 for Col B[eaumon]ts Weardale Lead Mines, to be delivered to you, I beg to transmit the annexed & am Sir etc MM
Letter – Martin Morrison to Thomas Richard Beaumont – 26 Dec 1816
N[ew]castle Dec 26 1816
Col Beaumont MP
P MrsB
The enclosed Papers have sent to me this morning and I hope this Letter will arrive before the deputation intended to be sent to Bretton by the Miners. to lay before you & Col Beaumont their complaints and to solicit redress – The allowance of 30/- p[er]B[in]g the highest Price for raising Ore cannot be increased, without augmenting the loss already sustained in working the Mines Weardale Mines, at the present price of Lead; nor
Letter – Martin Morrison to Diana Beaumont – 30 Dec 1816
N[ew]castle 30 Dec 1816
Mrs Beaumont Bretton
I have this moment rec[eive]d your letter & since I had the honor of writing to you on the 26th Inst I have been waited upon by two delegates with a petition (which I herewith beg to enclose) from the Weardale Miners. I have told them that every consideration for their situation weighs most feelingly on the minds of their employers & with the intention of benefitting them, employment at a great loss from the low price of Lead has
Report – George Crawhall to Martin Morrison – 1 Jan 1817
Coalcleugh Bargains
The Mines at Coalcleugh are extremely poor & nearly the whole of the Ore Workings require considerably more price pBing (if the value of Lead would admit of it) to make the Workmen a sufficient maintenance than is now given as there is nothing of consequence at Coalcleugh but Workings that have been wrought for a series of years & of course they got much exhausted & require a greater price; the earnings are now & will be the ensuing quarter ve
Report – William Crawhall to Martin Morrison – 1 Jan 1817
Allenheads Leadmines are much the same as last quarter, except (for) 2 or 3 of the best Workings, which are fast working out & get considerably poorer. –
The Cross Vein at the East End is wrought by 4 Men @ 2<9>/pBg. I think the prospect better in this Vein than last quart. If the Vein was unwatered and a better communication for Air which I expect to be able to accomplish in the course of a few months, which will enable me to employ more Workmen & expose the whole
Letter – Martin Morrison to George Crawhall – 1 Jan 1817
Fifty Pounds Reward
Whereas divers illdisposed persons have lately assembled in a riotous manner & attempted to seduce the Workmen at Allenheads Coalcleugh to leave their employment This is to give Notice that any endeavour to seduce the said Workmen to desist from their work will be punished to the utmost severity of the Law & a Reward of Fifty Pounds is hereby offered to any person who will give information of such offence so as the Offender or Offenders may be convicted thereof
Report – Thomas Emerson to Martin Morrison – 6 Jan 1817
Newhouse 6th January 1817
A Statement of the Weardale Lead Mines
Middlehope Shield continues to raise Ore tolerable well, have let Bargains to 58 Men 8 to drive the Waggon Level at £3.15- pfam. 16 to raise Ore at 26/. pBing, 8 at 27/.pBg, 8 at 28/. pBg and the remainder at 30/.pBg.
Company's Grove is likely to raise Ore much the same as usual, have let Bargains to 50 Men, 8 to drive the Waggon Level and raise Ore at 28/. per Bing and the remainder to raise Ore a
Memo – Martin Morrison to Rundell Bridge & Rundell – 6 Jan 1817
NCastle 6 Janry 1816 7
Messrs Rundell & Co Ludgate Hill London
Advg of 2 pieces of Silver weighing 3130 Oz pWaggon MM
Memo – Martin Morrison to Diana Beaumont – 6 Jan 1817
NCastle 6 Janry 1817
Mrs Beaumont Bretton
Transmitting Cash Acct & Lead Sales for Novemr MM
Letter – Martin Morrison to Gosling & Sharp – 11 Jan 1817
NCastle 11 Janry 1817
Messrs Goslings & Sharpe London
Remitting £375 on Revd Hy Hardinge’s Acct for ¼ yrs Composition for Tithe Ore due this day. MM
Report – Joseph Little – 15 Jan 1817
Quarterly report
Weardale District
Middlehope. The general prospects of this Mine are very considerably improved since the last Quarterly report, and we have in consequence been able to let a few Bargains at uncommonly low prices but the old pickings being much exhausted, we have been obliged to give the higher prices to a greater Number of partnerships. No additional Dead work has been let except the sinking of a Shaft, into the Vein, to open out & Air the Workings in that par
Memo – Martin Morrison to Rundell Bridge & Rundell – 17 Jan 1817
NCastle 17 Janry 1817
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising of a Pce of Silver containing 1130 Oz pWaggon MM
Memo – Martin Morrison to Diana Beaumont – 5 Feb 1817
NCastle 5 Febry 1817
Mrs Beaumont Portman Square – London
Transmitting Agents quarterly Report of the Mines MM
Letter – Martin Morrison to Diana Beaumont – 12 Feb 1817
NCastle 12 Febry 1817
Mrs Beaumont Portman Square – London
Transmitting Cash Account & Lead Sales for December & January and enclosing an offer of 1 @ 2 hundred Tons of Lead at £18 pfr for Common, six months Credit. To Mr Paris MM
Memo – Martin Morrison to Rundell Bridge & Rundell – 22 Feb 1817
NCastle 22 Febry 1817
Messrs Rundell Bridge & Rundell Ludgate Hill – London
Advising a pce Silver of 1141 Oz pWaggon 21st inst MM
Letter – Martin Morrison to Archibald Paris – 22 Feb 1817
Archd Paris Esqr NCastle 22 Febry 1817
Melton-Mowbray-Leicestershire
I am this day honored with your Letter of the 18th instant; & beg to inform you that Col Beaumont will consent to ship 200 Tons Lead to St Petersburgh on joint Account; but that he cannot take less than £18 Newcastle fodder, six months Credit, for Lead. – the Credit to commence from the date (if accepted) of your reply.
I am etc MM
