Newcastle 7 Janry 1818
Messrs Rundell Bridge & Rundell
Ludgate Hill London – Advising a pce Silver of 1387 Oz pWaggon 3 inst MM
Newcastle 31 Janry 1818
Messrs Goslings & Sharpe
Bankers London – Remitting £375 on Acct Revd Henry Hardinge for ¼ a Yrs Compo: of Tithe Ore due the 11 inst
Newcastle 4 Febry 1818
Messrs Rundell Bridge & Rundell
Ludgate Hill - London. Advising a pce Silver of 1426Oz pWaggon this day
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Newcastle 13 Febry 1818
Messrs Paris McCausland & Co Broad Street Buildings
I beg to transmit the above for Lead shipped to St Petersburgh on A. Paris Esqr’s Account, due the 1 instant, and to request the favour of the amount being paid to Sir P. Pole & Co in London for my Account with Messrs Reed & Co, Bankers here. I am etc
£914 – 2 – 2
Newcastle 6 March 1818
Messrs Rundell Bridge & Rundell
Ludgate Hill – London – Advg 2 ps Silver of 1504 & 1293 Oz pWaggons of the 28 Ult and 4th instant
General Report of the Mines Lady Day 1818
Weardale
There is so little alteration in the state of the Mines throughout the three districts that with very few exceptions I have to refer you to the last Quarters Report, as the Report also of the present Quarter.
Middlehope Mine continues to Raise Ore to great advantage & its prospects as we proceed in opening it out to the East are of the most flattering description. The low Level driving for this purpose b
Newcastle 11 April 1818
Messrs Goslings & Sharpe
Ludgate Hill London – Remitting £375 in payment of Revd Hy Hardinge’s Compo: of Tithe Ore for ¼ a yr due this day
Newcastle 11 April 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advg a pce Silver of 1377 Oz - pWaggon 10 inst
Newcastle 18 April 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advg a pce Silver of 1654 Oz pWaggon this day
Newcastle 18 April 1818
Mrs Beaumont Portman Square London
Transmitting Cash Accounts & Lead Sales for December, Janry, Febry & March; also Quarterly Reports of the Mines
Newcastle 29 April 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advg a pce Silver contg 1264 ½ Oz – pWaggon
Newcastle 6 June 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advg a Pe Silver containing 1428Oz pWaggon
16 June 1818
Ditto do containing 1180 oz pWaggon
General Report of the Mines Midsummer 1818
Teesdale
Lodgesyke. Since the last quarters Report I am happy to have to State that a material improvement has taken place in the prospects of this Mine. In order that the Court may the better comprehend its state and prospects I accompany this report with a ground and section plan. The parts of the plan shaded with Indian Ink are those that have been wrought and where nothing but old Pickings are left. In order to encour
Tynebottom continues so hard & poor as to require the highest prices, yet as the Dead work upon it is light, this mine continues to be worked to advantage. The level driving by Joseph Wandlace & Co is to open out the mine in fresh ground, and it is essential to its future prosecution.
Newcastle 30th June 1818
Mrs Beaumont Hastings - Sussex
Inclosing Cash Acct & Lead Sales for May & June. MM
Newcastle 2nd July 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising a Pce of Silver containing 1410 Oz pWaggon 30 Ult
Newcastle 10 July 1818
Messrs Watkins Maltby Parker & Co
Lead Merchants – London.-
I am favored with your esteemed Letter of the 10th instant; and the paper delivered to me, by Mr Parker, to which you allude, remains in my possession. – I beg to observe that the Purchaser of Slag, or hard Lead, Knows it to be of an inferior quality, and pays accordingly a less price for it, nor can I admit that the Mines or the Merchant ought, under the knowedge of this fact, be made accou
Newcastle 11 July 1818
Messrs Goslings & Sharpe Bankers London
Remitting £375, in payment of ¼ yrs Compo: for Tithe Ore due this day to Revd Henry Hardinge.
Newcastle 20 July 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising a Pce of Silver containing 1318 Oz pWaggon
Newcastle 6 August 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising a pce of Silver containing 1159 Oz pWaggon 4 inst
Newcastle 17 August 1818
Messrs Rundell & Co London
Advising a pce Silver of 1441 ½ Oz pWaggon 11 inst
Newcastle 29 August 1818
Messrs Glyn & Co Bankers London
Enclosing 5 Bills value £17,627-14-1 for Col Beaumonts Account. ---MM
Chatsworth September 16th 1818
My Dear Madam
It is with great regret that I must submit to the disappointment of not going into Yorkshire, so many of my family are coming to this place immediately that it will be impossible for me to leave them, and even of Doncaster races I have a very faint hope, should I be able to come it will give me great pleasure to drive with you
With my best compliments to the Miss[e]s Beaumonts & to Mrs Leighton and the Miss[e]s Leightons
Newcastle 16 September 1818
Mrs Beaumont Bretton
Inclosing Cash Acct & Lead Sales for last month
T W Beaumont Esq M.P.
Honoured Sir
We the Miners in Weardale having long laboured under the greatest distress, have felt ourselves obliged to petition for an Advance of Wages. We find that our present subsisting Money, which is only 7/6 a Week, much too little to purchase the necessaries of life, we have therefore petitioned for 10/- a week - our requests have not yet been granted . - Mr Morrison has made us an offer of 5/- pBing more than we have had, but it is too little, as those place