Letter – George Bates – 11 Sep 1793

To the Commissioners for dividing and allotting and inclosing Grindon Common



Sir Edward Blackett Bart and Mr John Craig being desirous of exchanging with the Commissioners and Governors of Greenwich Hospital five several parcels of Ground lying in the Chapelry of Haydon and boundered as follows that is to say One of the said parcels of Ground boundered by Lands belonging to the said Hospital called the Folly on the East Lands called High Close on the West and South Lands called East Field on the North; another of the said Parcels of Ground boundered by other Lands belonging to the said Hospital called Lilly Burn Field on the East Lands called Long Flatt on the West Lands called Lowshield on the North and Lands called Howden Cleugh on the South, another of the said Parcels of Ground boundered by other Lands belonging to the said Hospital called Low Close on the East Lands called Hobs Bank on the West Lands called Bank Close on the North and Lands called Bigland Dale on the South, another of the said Parcels of Ground boundered by other Lands belonging to the said Hospital called High Field on the East, Lands called Whetstone Dale & Horse Fords and Pit Field on the West and South and Lands called Bog Close on the North, and the last of the said Parcels of Ground boundered by other Lands belonging to the said Hospital called Hingyshea Top on the East and South Lands called Forefield on the West and Lands called Orchard on the North, forpart of Lands at Haydon belonging to the said Commissioners and Governors called Bullion of equal Value to the said five Parcels of Ground. Now we George Bates (as Agent for and by order and direction of the said Sir Edwd Blackett) and John Craig, and Nicholas Walton Junr Esqr (as Receiver for the sd Commissioners and Governors Mind and Desire, and request you or any two of you will settle ascertain and fix such Exchange, Given under our Hands this eleventh Day of September 1793

	For Sir Edward Blackett

		George Bates

		John Craig



For the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich in the County of Kent

	     	Nich. Walton Junr	



Subject to the approbation of a General Court of the Commissioners and Governors of Greenwich Hospital