Letter – John Erasmus Blackett to Thomas Faber – 22 Aug 1777

Mr Faber  at Calverley                                                           Newcas    August  22nd  1777    

Yorkshire 



Sir     As you was so kind to take the Payment of some small Sums w[hi]ch the late Sir Walter Blackett allowed to Mrs Bradford & some other Persons in your Neighbourhood I desire you will be so obliging as [to] inform me if you are in Advance of that Account & to what time each Person has been paid that I may remit you the Amount & likewise Six Pounds six Shillings being one half Years Annuity left to Mrs Bradford of Bradford by a Codicil to the late Sir Walters Will which Sum I must request you will Pay her on her signing the Receipt which I shall inclose to you in my next.   Sir Walter Blackett has left by the said Codicil One Hundred Pounds to the Poor of the Parish of Calverley; A Bill for which Sum I will send you enclosed in my next Letter provided you have no difficulty in procuring Cash for it otherwise will bring the Cash with me the latter End of next Month when I intend making Sir Thomas Blackett a Visit & and waiting on Mrs Traviss at Crofton.

     It will be necessary that the Receipt which I shall send you should be signed by you & the Churchwardens of Calverley.       I am etc                       J. E. B.