Thos W Beaumont Esq MP Bretton Newcastle 3 Feb
Sir
Having heard that the enclosed Bill was in hands, of the Printer & wo[ul]d be distributed today, I have obtained it from him in time to save the Post, & which I think of importance sufficient to forward for your information. - Who the new Candidate for the County may be, or who is meant to be applied to, to come forward, I am unable to surmise
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Thos W Beaumont Esq N[ew]Castle 4th Febry 1820
Sir
I have just time to save the Post to inform you that the Handbill which I had the Honor of transmitting to you yesterday, was sent from Alnwick Castle to Mr Davidson who had a number printed & distributed throughout the Town. - I enclose in this & another Cover the Quarterly Reports of the Weardale Mines, & have the Honor etc MM
Mrs Beaumont Newcastle Feby 4th/1820
Madam
I duly rec[eiv]ed your letter of the 1st Inst & in this & another Cover, have the Honor to transmit the Quarterly Reports for Allenheads & Coalcleugh Lead Mines. – Mr Beaumont will have informed you of the occurrences which have arisen in consequence of the late Kings demise. – A Contest for the County is in the general opinion, inevitable; and the hand Bill which I sent yesterday to Mr Beaumont is ascertained to have co
Revd Geo: Newby Newcastle 5th February 1820
Witton le Wear Durham
Sir
I am favoured with your letter of the 2d Instt the subject to which it refers I sometime since submitted to Col & Mrs Beaumont, and I am authorised in giving you this assurance that it is their intention to contribute towards the support of the Schools in Weardale, so benevolently commenced & liberally endowed by the B[isho]p of Durham. – I apprehend Col & Mrs Beaum[on]t will pay a Sum annually in
Mrs Beaumont, Bretton Newcastle 7th February 1820
Madam
I take the earliest opportunity afforded me, to inform you Sir Chas Monck has declared his intention to decline the Representation of the County at the Approaching Election. – I saw a letter yesterday from Sir Chas to Mr Pearson to this purport. – On Saturday Mr <Brandling> went to Alnwick and was most cordially received by the Duke who espouses his Interest with all his influence. His Grace was also willing t
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It is with extreme regret that your friends hear of your determination to resign your Seat from the County. Confident as I feel that the whole opposition is directed against Beaumont is it possible to persuade you to postpone your declaration being made public till we can have an opportunity of proving that your interest is much stronger than you are aware of. Indeed nobody feels stronger than Mr Smith and allows me to assure you that all the influence he has will be divid
Mr Wm Crawhall Allenheads NewCastle 8th Feby 1820
Sir
I rec[eiv]ed the Reports of Alenheads & Coalcl[eugh] Lead Mines, for the quarter ending the 31st Decr last. -- & the Branch Level which you recommend to be taken from Keirsley Row Mines in a South direction for the purpose of discovering Bateshill, Greenly Cleugh & other Veins, I am of opinion should be adopted; and request that you will proceed therewith with all convenient speed dispatch.
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My dear B
Your Message has overtaken me and I have gone into Mrs Cole’s farm house to write this answer. 1st I thank you for all your kind wishes and pray thank Mr Smith from me over again for his kind expressions to me on Thursday which I have no doubt come from his heart actuated by the best intentions in all regards. But I could not reverse my determination to withdraw myself now from the representation of the County upon the assurance which you send me. I came forw
Mr. Beaumont (member for the County) called and I had much conversation with him. He seems to me to have acted honorably during the late short sessions of Parliament and to have been ill used by the Tories who pretended to be his friends.
N[ew]Castle 21 February 1820
Mrs Beaumont Portman Square London
I am honored with your Letter of the 19 inst. The Lives in the leases for the Weardale Lead Mines with the particulars you required are inserted on the otherside; and those for the Inclosures etc will be transmitted by Mr Thomas who possesses the Leases. – The subject of Mr Blacketts Letter dated April 5th/1807 has frequently engaged my thoughts, and you will be pleased to recall to Memory a Proposition to the Bishop
Newcastle 26 Febry 1820
Messrs Rundell & Co Ludgate Hill London. –
Advising a Pce of Silver of 1296 Oz pWaggon MM
Newcastle 17th March 1820
Mr Robert Stagg Middleton House
Annexed you have statement of payments for Ore raised in Weardale in the year ending the 30 Septem[be]r 1819 by which the Company’s Proportion amounts to £799-17-3. Having received from you £1000 on Account of the same, the Balance due to the Company is £200-2-9, which sum Is to <their> Credit & applicable to the payments for the present year
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Mrs Beaumont Newcastle 20 & 21 March 1820
Portman Square London
Transmitting in two Covers Cash Acc[oun]t & Lead Sales for last month & stating remittance to Messrs Glyn & Co of 10,120.17.5 for T R Beaumont Esqrs Acct
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Newcastle 21 March 1820
Messrs Glyn & Co Bankers London. –
Inclosing three Bills value £10,120.17.5 for Thos Rd Beaumont Esqre’s Account – MM.
Newcastle 21 March 1820
Messrs Rundell & Co London --
Advising a Pce of Silver of 1224 Oz pWaggon the 14 inst MM
Mr Horsington Bretton Newcastle 27 March 1820
Mrs Beaumont some time since mentioned to me that you had applied to her on behalf of a person in your neighbourhood to supply the Leadmines with Bend Leather.—The quantity consumed in all the Mines amounts in value to about Two hundred pounds annually and the supply has hitherto been from persons residing in Bishop Auckland and in this Town all Tanners and who in the article have given satisfaction. – On your friend stating his Terms a
Newcastle 7 April 1820
Mrs Beaumont Portman Square. –
Transmitting Cash Acc[oun]t & Lead Sales for last month MM
Newcastle 11 April 1820
Messrs Goslings & Sharpe Bankers London. –
Remitting £375 on Acc[oun]t Revd Henry Hardinge for ¼ Yrs Compo[sition] for Tithe Ore due this day MM
Newcastle 15 April 1820
Messrs Rundell & Co London --
Advising a Pce Silver of 1250 Oz PWaggon this day
May 19 1820 Advised Mr Wm Raine, Bretton of 40p <Ref[ined]> WB Lead
Shipped p. Lively <Insis> of Hull – for Mr <N> Backhouse, Wakefield
N[ew]Castle 30 May 1820
Messrs Rundell & Co London. –
Advising a pce of Silver of 1469 Oz pWaggon 27 inst MM
Mrs Beaumont
35 Portman Square London N[ew]Castle 2d June 1820
Madam
I have had the Honor of receiv[in]g your letter of the 30 ult. The reason why Mr Fenwick was not paid on Mr Beaumont’s first Election, the Usual fee as Under Sheriff was, that, He demanded Fifty Guineas, being the Sum, he said, presented to him when he held the same situation by Lord Percy on his Election. – The usual Fee has been Twenty five Guineas for each Member, given for the ostensible purpose of defraying
Mrs Beaumont 35 Portman Square London N[ew]C[astle] 17 June 1820
Madm
I am this day honored with your letter of the 15 Inst & have looked through the files of Letters for the years 1789 & 1790 & there is not a letter, contained in them, from Sir Thos Blackett to the Alderman, nor does Mr Crawhall recollect ever seeing one from Sir Thomas.-- The enclosed letters from Luke Noble & Wm Tweedale were received during the above periods by which It appears Luke No
June 22 Sent Mrs Beaum[on]t Extracts from letter Book of Letters written to Bretton in 1789 1790, 1791 & 1792 by which it appears the last remittance made to
Luke Noble, was in Decem 1789
the first to – Richd Noble was in Jany 1790
& which continued until Decem 1791
the first to Wm Tweedale was in Feby 1792
Thos Crawhall did not enter Col & Mrs Beaumonts Office in Newcastle untill <Xmass> 1794. he never had any knowledge of Mr Luke Noble, Richd Noble,
General Report of Mines &c June 1820
Teesdale
Coldberry Mine This Mine has continued to improve in its prospects since last quarter, and is now raising Ore to considerable advantage as the Court will perceive by the above rates
Mannergill This Mine continues to raise Ore in the Upper Strata to great advantage as far as it is yet opened out, but the trial of the Lower Strata respecting the result of which we were all so sanguine in our expectations has entirely failed;