Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Jasper Gibson – 19 Dec 1795

Mr Jasper Gibson  Hexham 					Newcastle   19th Decer 1795

          

Sir	I am favoured with your letter of the 14th inst & observe that you decline my request of a Copy of the Order of the Trustees respecting the double Toll, least my intentions for the obtaining the same should not be friendly to the Interest of the Road;  If the Order is such as can be justified, Why refuse me a Copy of it?  Should it be otherwise?  the Trustees should not have made it;  It is not my wish that the Lead should be exempted from the double Toll during a certain Period, but the Trustees that made the Order certainly did not consult the Interest of the Road in not subjecting other Articles to the like Toll, neither could they legally do it.  I am sorry that it will not be in my power to attend the Meeting at Corbridge on the 30th inst                                                                                                     I am etc   J.E.B