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Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 14 Dec 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co London
I am favoured with your letter of 11th inst advising the receipt of £1542-14 from Mr W[ilia]m Parker and payment of the same to Mr B[eaumon]ts credit at Glyn & Co. On the <annexed> sheet I send you a statement of our stock of Lead at the Blaydon and the Mills by which you will see that there is a considerable deficiency to meet our present sales. There will however be little difficulty in effecting it before the purchasers require the deliver
Letter – John Grey to James Graham – 15 Dec 1833
Corbridge Dec 12th 1833
Sir
I am sorry to say that the accounts I hear of Mr C. Hodgson are by no means favorable to his appointment by the Alston Trustees. Mr <Maunslay> informed me that he has been dismissed, or the determination of it, has resigned the Surveyorship of the road from Carlisle to Hesket, as also that from Carlisle on the Newcastle line, and is likely now to be dismissed from his situation of Bridge Surveyor from incompetency. You may perhaps have heard
Journal entry – John Grey – 16 Dec 1833
Monday 16th December 1833
Had a meeting with Green, tenant of Corbridge Town Farm, part of which has been sold to Sir Edward Blackett. The remainder I valued at £160 which he agrees to give, which is at the rate of three Pounds an Acre, exclusive of waste, land etc, a high rent in these times considering that it is subject to Tithes, and yet I am not sure that had it been offered to the public, a still higher rent might not have been promised by someone owning a small tenement in Corbridge
Journal entry – John Grey – 17 Dec 1833
Tuesday 17th December
Mr Brandling, I am informed by the Bank has paid in £50 to my Credit. I suppose for the right of Shooting for the two years previous to this. Mr Reay to whom I had offered the Corf Rods has examined all the woodlands on this part of the property. Some of the rods are good & some of little value, he has however agreed to clear them all off at 6d per bundle of 60 rods, he incurring every expense of cutting and carriage - our Woodmen counting the bundles from t
Letters – George Backhouse to Finlay & Hodgson – 17 Dec 1833
Messrs Finlay & Co Dec 17 1833
Inclosed I hand you Reads unpaid Acceptance bearing Mr Keys Endorsement value as under-
Bill 20 .. ..
Costs .. 19 .4
To which I will thank you to do the needful.
I am Sir GB
P.S. As this Bill was transmitted through you I prefer its taking the same course back to direct transmission to Mr Key.
Journal entry – John Grey – 18 Dec 1833
?Wednesday 18th December
I had sent Mr Hunt yesterday to attend a Sale of Mr Pearson’s effects at a place 20 miles westward, that he might obtain payment of the Fee Farm Rent due to the Hospital from that property, which he effected, engaging that I should meet him at Haydon Bridge this morning, where also he had to collect the rents of certain cottages due in November last. But was detained, first by Mr Blackburn, who came to signify his acceptance of the farm of Wooley, which he had
Letter – James Graham to John Grey – 18 Dec 1833
Wetherby 18 Decr 1833
Dear Sir
I fear from your account that the objections to the appointment of C. Hodgson are unimpeachable & I am the last person who would wish to advocate his claims when his want of merit is established.
I gladly gave my consent to the new mode of letting the Hospital Farms: all the reasoning against the former practise is unanswerable & my confidence in you justifies the adoption of private Bargain in the place of Public Tenders. Tha
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to William Ferry & Co – 19 Dec 1833
Messrs W[ilia]m Ferry & Co Gateshead Dec 19 1833
Above I hand you renewed Invoice of 12 Casks WB Litharge due in bank 1st Sept :- Cash and bearing Int[erest] at 5 per cent from that date. I will thank you to send a c
Cheque or call and discharge the Am[oun]t in the course of the present week.
BJ
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Robert Chance – 19 Dec 1833
Rob[er]t Lucas Chance Esq Birmingham Dec 19th 1833
I beg leave to call your attention to the Amount due from you to the Ex[ecutor]s of the late Mrs Beaumont amounting to £620-19-7 due the 30th June 1831. You will oblige me by stating when we may expect it to be paid. BJ
Journal entry – John Grey – 19 Dec 1833
Thursday 19th December 1833
Robert Hunter of Newlands Town Farm came to give me a Pro[missary] Note at three months for his Arrears of £35 in which he is to be joined by his Brothers. Andw Thorburn also came and tried every manoeuvre to obtain the ploughing of land to which he considers himself intitled, but I do not, on the ground that having exceeded his quantity of Corn in former years with impunity, he must hold with less this year, as I will not allow him to sew the same land a seco
Letters – George Backhouse to Mr Emerson – 20 Dec 1833
Dear Sir 20 Dec 1833
Herewith you have a quantity of forms for making out the Statement of the Stock of Lead on hand at Blaydon to the close of last week. Two of which you will be kind enough to fill up & forward here every Monday Morning.
Please inform me tomorrow what q[uantit]y of Ref[ine]d Slag Lead you have at present on hand.
Yours Sir GB
Journal entry – John Grey – 20 Dec 1833
Friday 20th December 1833
Heard from Mr Thomson of Scremerston stating that in these times, he could not hold on his farm and wishing to have a meeting with me respecting it. Wrote in reply, that his taking a journey to see me wd avail him nothing. That the Commissioners had uniformly, since my coming here, declined reducing rents when applied for, except upon a relinquishment of the Lease. That it was too late of taking the resignation of such an extensive farm as his for this season
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Stagg – 21 Dec 1833
John Stagg Esq Stockton Dec 21 1833
I was prevented answering your letter yesterday being absent from Newcastle.
We have but 450 Pieces Refined Slag Lead but can make of 500 next week which I shall be glad to sell to you at £15.10 per fod[der]. 500 Common at the same price and 1000 P[iece]s Ref[ined] at £16 per fod[der]. These are our present prices and I believe the prices of the Company and Duke of Cleveland I shall be glad to have you’re am[oun]t by return of post or I have a
Journal entry – John Grey – 21 Dec 1833
Saturday 21st December
Rode in the morning to the west farm at Fourstones to inspect a wet grass field which I thought would be improved & increased in value by being drained, ploughed out & limed & then restored to grass,, conferred with the tenant who undertook to do so, marked out the line of drains & advised him respecting its management. Proceeded to Allerwash to assist the tenant in managing the rotation etc conformable to the new covenants of the ensuing lease, bu
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 22 Dec 1833
Finlay Hodgson & Co London
I Have duly received your letters of the 13th. 17th. 18th. And 19th: inst advising the receipt of the following sums-
£ S D
1833 Dec 13th 2 Pieces fine Silver 834 18 8
“ 16th Grace & Freeman 293 4 0
“ 19th John Locke & Co 3943 7 6
“ “ 1 Piece fine Silver 440 1 0
£5511-11. 2
& all the Payment of t
Journal entry – John Grey – 23 Dec 1833
Monday 23rd December
Arranged the covenants of Farms that are advertized to let, giving a written statement of them & plan of each farm to the persons appointed to show them to the Public. Fixed with Mr Parkin the kinds of trees suitable to plant at Throckley, which as well as the Thorn Quicks for fencing, I wrote for to Fallas of Gateshead desiring them to be sent to Mr Stephensons’s care the very respectable tenant there. I also wrote to him, desiring that they might be preser
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 24 Dec 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co London 24th Dec 1833
I have duly received your letter of the 21st inst and have now to advise of having sent by Jackson & Co Waggon to your address as usual a piece of fine Silver weighing 1523 1/2 ounces. Mr Stagg to whom I offered 500 P[iece]s Ref[ine]d Slag at £15-10 per fod[der], declines it at that Price and offers £15 for 500 P[iece]s Common and 500 P[iece]s Ref[ine]d Slag which I have of course declined. BJ
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 24 Dec 1833
John Hodgson Esq
You are quite correct in your statement of the quantity of Lead to be made by 14th March 1834 if Mr P[attinson] is correct and which I have no reason to doubt. You may also add 1000 Pieces of selected Ref[ine]d ch/w we supposed purchased by Mr Key. It is somewhat singular that Mr P[attinson] sh[oul]d state to you that he has no particular wish to visit the <Spe..sh> Mines – when he proposed it to me himself. I cannot tell how his partiality to Rookhope arises unl
Journal entry – John Grey – 24 Dec 1833
Tuesday 24th December
Mr S Brewis of Hartburngrainge paid his Arrear of Rent. Paid accounts to several Workmen, altered the advertizement of the farms including Coastley & Woodhall Mill & changing the day for the proposals from the 6th to the 10th January on account of the latter. Sent an advertizement to the Berwick Papers, as well as the Newcastle, thinking the extent of Coastley might perhaps bring up a Tweedside tenant, though it is not a farm to my liking. Drew up an Adve
Journal entry – John Grey – 25 Dec 1833
Wednesday 25th Christmas Day
Mr Mulcaster came asking for the Pension which he formerly refused, which I paid him, from the 12th May last to the end of the year £50.
Journal entry – John Grey – 26 Dec 1833
Thursday 26th
Received from my Son the account of the outlay for building the Cattle Shed at Outchester, fold yard walls, Cribs etc, the roof being done with foreign timber & blue slates, the whole cost of which is £33.3.4 also received Davisons Arrears of Rent for Outchester which he paid to my son at the same time - received & answered letters inquiring about Chesterhill & other farms, but nothing occurred of particular importance. The inhabitants of the South part of Langl
Journal entry – John Grey – 27 Dec 1833
Friday 27th December
Went to inspect the Buildings now finished & covered in at Newtonhall & Whittle & likewise the Quarry at the latter, from which Stone was got for the rail-way, to be assured that no damage was done to the Woods & property of the Hospital, which is very trifling if any. The Buildings at Newtonhall are done very satisfactorily & a great improvement in the offices has been affected at a very moderate cost. In raising the back part of the farm house
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 28 Dec 1833
John Hodgson Esq Newcastle Dec 28 /33
The annexed letter will explain my observations to you in a former letter, upon the sum invested by Mr B[eaumon]t in the Allendale Road. I have taken considerable interest in it since it has fallen under my observation as Mr B[eaumon]ts representative and I am glad to be able to give you so good an ac[coun]t of its present prospect to pay at least a portion of Interest. When this was returned in the Executors List acc[oun]t it was considered of lit
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Hugh Pattinson – 28 Dec 1833
Mr H l Pattinson
The weight of the piece of Silver sent this morning is 1147 1/2 Ounces. You will oblige me with a statement of the actual expence of smelting the different ores produced in Weardale, at Rookhope. Allen & Dukesfield Mills, also stating the expence of refining at Allen, Dukesfield & Blaydon.
BJ
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Grace & Freeman – 28 Dec 1833
Messrs Grace & Freeman
Above I beg to hand you Invoice of 200 P[iece]s of WB refined Lead shipped this day – which completes you purchase of 2000 Pieces in June last. Annexed you have statement of shipping charges of 4000 Pieces which you will please to remit me at your convenience.
WB Lead Office Dec 28th /33
