Letter – Henry Richmond to Walter Blackett – 3 May 1763

To Sir Walter Blackett Bart. M.P.

in Half Moon Street Piccadilly London                                         Newcastle 3rd May 1763



Hon[our]d Sir/ I find by Mr Leaton that your Bond to Mrs Bowes for £5200 is looked up at Gibside; & tho’ notice has been given you to pay in the money on the 23rd inst. & everything is ready on your part, yet the Bond cannot become at. Mr Leaton says Mrs Bowes says she hopes you will accept of her promisory note till she comes to Gibside, for that sum & the Bond can be given up. This is so unusual a way in money matters, that tho’ Mrs Boweses note may be sufficient, yet I cannot go into it without your directions; which you will please to send me by the return of the post. The inclosed is the form of the promisory note which Mr Leaton says Mrs Bowes will sign & send hither on this day senight & he seems to expect that the yrs int[e]r[es]t which is £200 will be paid along with the principal on the return of this hole, tho’ it will be 10 pays short that your hinting that you proposed to pay the money in London & yet he never told me of this till last week, when he insisted that I sho[ul]d get him Bills for the money, which has been attended with no small difficulties, but yet is accomplished. I am etc    H.R.



Sixteen Days after Date I promise to pay to Sir Walter Blackett Bart or Order the sum of Five Thousand two hundred pounds with int[e]r[es]t for the same after the Rate of 4 per cent per annum which sum of Five Thousand two hundred pounds I acknowledge to have this day received of the said Sir Walter Blackett Bart by the payment of Mr Henry Richmond As Witness my hand this senenth day of May One Thousand seven hundred & sixty three.