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Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Thomas Key – 28 Dec 1833
Tho[ma]s Key Esq
I have duly rec[eive]d your lre (letter) of the 26th inst enclosing seven Bills value £2151. 2s. 3d of which £1613.0s.6d we carry to the credit of the London Works & £538.1s.9d to the credit of the Exorship acc[oun]t debiting the same with £267.13s.6d paid for Ground Rents. We also credit the London Works with £598.6s.10d paid by you to Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co on the 26th inst
WB Lead Office Dec28th/33
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 28 Dec 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co
I am in receipt of your lre (letter) of the 24th inst enclosing one from Mr Key with seven Bills value £2151.2s.3d of which £1613..0s.6d we carry to the credit of the London Works and £538.1s.9d to the credit of the Exorship acc[oun]t debiting the same with £267.13s.6d paid for Ground rents particulars of which we will thank you to furnish & also credit the London Works with £598.6s.10d paid to you by Mr Key crediting you with that amount Paid t
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 28 Dec 1833
John Hodgson Esq
My Dear Sir
I beg reference to my official letter of Saturday last
The D[ra]ft of Lease from the Bishop has been forwarded to Messrs Griffiths at Durham his Lordship’s Sol[icitor]s & the Declaration of Trust to Mr Birks at Barnsly Mr Becket’s Sol[icitor]s. Messrs Donkin & Stable will see Mr Griffith next week when the lease will be endorsed & forwarded to Mr Beckett. Mr Donkin thinks there can be no difficulty in getting the Bishop to consent to h
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 28 Dec 1833
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co
I duly rec[eive]d your lre (letter) of the 27th inst and Mr Keys statement of acc[ount]s for Dec .. on the Other side I send you statement of our stock at Blaydon on the 28th inst. I have this day forwarded to your address as usual by Jackson & Co Waggon a piece of fine Silver weight 1021 1/2 Ozs Yours Sir BJ
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Thomas Key – 28 Dec 1833
Tho[ma]s Key Esq
I have duly rec[eive]d your lre (letter) of the 26th inst enclosing seven Bills value £2151. 2s. 3d of which £1613.0s.6d we carry to the credit of the London Works & £538.1s.9d to the credit of the Exorship acc[oun]t debiting the same with £267.13s.6d paid for Ground Rents. We also credit the London Works with £598.6s.10d paid by you to Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co on the 26th inst
WB Lead Office Dec28th/33
Journal entry – John Grey – 28 Dec 1833
Saturday 28th December
Wrote to Mr Dickinson of Spency Croft, directing him as to the number & kinds of trees to be got at the nursery at Alston, for planting the piece of ground as ordered by the Board - and also as to the price he should give for pitting and planting the same. I have obtained the prices of young trees & thorns from several nurseries & find them very much alike.  The only thing necessary is to see that they are good and suitable.
Rode to the QuarriesÂ
Journal entry – John Grey – 30 Dec 1833
Monday 30th December 1833
Robert Hunter of Newlands Town Farm came to the Office in consequence of my having written to him to come to some decision respecting his Farm, & according to the directions of the Board, I agreed with him for one year at the rent of £136, which will give an opportunity of making a better arrangement of those Farms than the present. Was engaged some time with Benson in examining his measurement & accounts of the several Buildings at Lipwood, Haydon Town,
Journal entry – John Grey – 31 Dec 1833
Tuesday 31st December 1833
Was detained from eight o’ clock till twelve by a succession of applications for farms, inquiring for information & giving me in return information respecting themselves, their connections & qualifications.Â
Received several same from Tenants which they had left unpaid in November. Had a deputation from Newlands & Whittonstall expressing their thankfulness to the Board for the grant of lime to the district, but stating their inability to mak
Journal entry – John Grey – 1 Jan 1834
Wednesday 1st January 1834
This being the Quarter day, I inclosed cheques to the several Parties for their Pensions or Salaries. Â Received various Proposals for planting the ground in Dipton Wood. Â I think it better to let the making of the pits only, by the thousand, & to have the planting done by our own Woodmen under the immediate direction of Mr Parkin, both that it may be more carefully done, & that greater attention may be paid to the selection of the kinds of trees best sui
Journal entry – John Grey – 2 Jan 1834
Thursday 2nd JanuaryÂ
Received the Boards Minutes of the 21st December and made the communications required to Mr Wallis & Mr Grace. Â Was engaged all the forenoon in the Office with Benson, making up the building accounts, & Parkin arranging for the planting and making out the orders for the young trees wanted for the purpose, some kinds of which are to be had very good at Hexham & others better at Gateshead which I have ordered accordingly.
[Marginal note added here in p
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 2 Jan 1834
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co London Jan 2nd 1834
On the receipt of your letter this morn[ing] I sent for Mr Pattinson and have now the pleasure to hand you our joint opinion of the value of Lead Ore suitable for making Common Lead delivered at the Wharf at Blaydon.
In Sep[tembe]r last I furnished you with a Statement of the value Ordinary & Slag Ore del[ivere]d at Blaydon from Mr Pattinson and Mr W[illia]m Crawhall selling Com[mo]n Lead at £14 per fodder. Mr Pattinson
Journal entry – John Grey – 3 Jan 1834
Friday 3rd JanuaryÂ
Engaged with settlement of Accounts in the office & with parties enquiring the particulars of farms. Afterwards went through the Dilston Estate to see the progress of the embankment & to try to teach some men cutting hedges, to adopt a better method than they are accustomed to. Mr Stokoe a Millwright who had formerly been employed by the Hospital, applied for payment of an account of £8.8.0 for valuing Threshing Machines, which he had presented to Mr Hooper, bu
Journal entry – John Grey – 4 Jan 1834
Saturday 4th JanuaryÂ
The morning being promising, to escape the interruptions of the Office, I set out in good time to make an excursion to the west, examining in my way the repair of the barn & building of some conveniences at Highside, now finished, the fences & draining at Woodhall, advising the tenants respecting some draining necessary at the Rattenraw Farms, inspecting the new buildings just now completed & measured off at Haydon Town Farm, which is substantially done.
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 4 Jan 1834
Messrs Finlay Hogson & Co London Jan 4th 1834
I have duly received your Letter of the 1st inst and note you Sale to Mr W[ilia]m Parker of 5200 P[iece]s Lead and 70 Casks of Litharge. Also your sale of 2000 Pieces Common Lead to Mr Key. These sales will fully establish the Price at £15-10 and £16 of which I have appraised the Duke of Cleveland. Mr Backhouse has made out the ac[coun]t against the London Works which you will find to agree with yours, excepting the Payment of the Leve
Journal entry – John Grey – 6 Jan 1834
Monday 6th January1834
Had an early visit from Andrew Thorburn threatening the destruction of Gairshield by ploughing out as much Grassland as he is intitled to by his lease, well aware of the injury it would occasion to the letting of the place, and complaining of the restriction I had put upon him as to his Crop at Mirehouse.  I told him that I had applied to the Board for instructions, as to whether he should required to pay more rent for this year than his farms should be let for the
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 6 Jan 1834
John Hodgson Esq Jan 6th 1833
I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 4thinst this morning and am glad Mr <W[alke]r> approves of all that has been <done> in his absence. I wrote to him at <….>gate on Sat[urda]y and Mr Donkin to the same place yesterday.
Mr Parker called this morning to say he sh[oul]d write [to] his partner Mr Walker to pay for the 15,000 p[iece]s purchased on the 7th of August last by three equal payments in Cash at Glyns &a
Journal entry – John Grey – 7 Jan 1834
Tuesday 7th January
A number of Accounts, belonging to the last year still coming in, delays the making up of the Books.  I heard to day from Mr Parker that he & Mr Crawhall had fixed the price of Lead for the bygone quarter at £14.16.0. I had two customers to day for the lot of Wood advertized at Capon’s Cleugh, the one offered £320 & the other £222 a most extraordinary difference of opinion as to its value.  It is an excellent Lot of Wood, though in a situation which makes
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Lock Wilson & Bell – 7 Jan 1834
Messrs Lock Wilson & Bell
At your request I hand you Invoice as above and beg to acknowledge the Receipt of Tender for 20 Tons Malleable Iron Rails which I accept. BJ
Journal entry – John Grey – 8 Jan 1834
Wednesday 8th January
Teasdale came to me this morning as I had desired. I showed him the state of his farm, & among other things, that he had only 10 Acres sown with grass seeds last half year & 47 for fallow this, which should have been equal in quantity. He stated as his reason that the land was tired of growing grass in proof of which I must see how bad those 10 Acres were, & that there was no use in sowing any - and that all that 47 Acres were not for fallow, as he could
Journal entry – John Grey – 9 Jan 1834
Thursday 9th January
A Wet day throughout. Had a meeting with Mr Walker, Agent for the Railway Company respecting its course through the Hospital estates to the west of Hexham, & requested him to fix particularly its position at Allerwash Mill, as the end of the Stable, which I examined there some days ago is in danger of falling, but if the rail-way should interfere with it, it would not be right to repair it at present. Received the Plans of the proposed House at Dilston from Mr Kay &
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Joseph Price – 9 Jan 1834
Joseph <Price> & Co Jan 9th 1834
Gent[lemen]
Annexed I hand you Ac[coun]t of two purchases of WB Lead a payment for which will be due as follows
£ s d
for the first Purchase Amt 941 3 3 due Feb[ruar]y 21st
for the second 497 15 0 f[ebruar]y 23rd
1438 18 3
And have this day drawn on you as under viz
At Forty three days after date for £941 3 3
At Forty five days after d
Journal entry – John Grey – 10 Jan 1834
Friday 10 January
Another rainy day & little to be done, save to write the teller & attend to business in the Office. Benson is engaged with Green & Rewcastle in making up the accounts of the buildings which he has been measuring.
Journal entry – John Grey – 11 Jan 1834
Saturday 11th January
Rode to Wooley to advise the Tenant as to the arrangement of the farm so as to get it into a course of rotation conformable to the covenants by which it is to be managed in future. Also to fix upon the mode of renewing some old fences. Returned by Dipton Wood to see the land to be planted where some people are employed in clearing away and burning the refuse branches etc from the late falls of wood, & others are making pits for the planting of this season, which
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to John Hodgson – 11 Jan 1834
John Hodgson Esq
I shall see Mr W[ilia]m Crawhall on Tuesday next when I take up the subsistence money & I will request him to state what he considers the value of Mr Beaumont’s interest in the Allendale Road. Its real value to him as connected with his mines has been at least from £1,000 to £1,200 a year but the valuation must be made upon the probable return that he will receive from the road in future.
As no dividend has yet been declared I am quite sure that no pur
Letters – Benjamin Johnson to Finlay & Hodgson – 11 Jan 1834
Messrs Finlay Hodgson & Co
I have duly rec[eive]d your lres of the 6th & 7th inst and note your sale of two pieces of fine Silver and Payment of the net proceeds to Mr B[eaumon]ts credit at Glyn & Co. I also observe that the parties to whom you offered the the Lead Ore have refused it will answer our purpose quite as well to make it into Lead. The £300 paid on the 9th Feb[ruar]y and the £100 paid on the 12th July to the Railway company was upon Mr B[eaumon]ts or
