Letter – Joseph Richmond to Lancelot Allgood – 17 Nov 1730

To Mr Allgood					Newcastle 24 Novr 1730

      I have before me yours of the 14th. I hope you got well to London on Fryday last wch I will be glad to hear, & also to know whether I may please my self wth the Expect[ation] of seeing you in the Country before Xmass, I wrote you in my Lre of the 22nd ulto that the Weardale miners were grown refractory for want of a pay, & as Jacob & Joseph Peart both told me, the greatest part of them would actually throw up if not pd before Xmass, Joseph Peart is now here & so satisfie the Landlords & others that are most clamorous I have this Day pd him £500, but he assures me it will do nothing to make the Country easy, There is now due to the Mines to Michas last £5500 odd wch Sum I shall be able to raise before the 20 Decembr if you think fit to order a pay about that time. Wee have now at Markett about 4000 ps. Of lead but no Demand for it Mr Reay has offer’d me in the behalf of Mr Creed £14 5s 0d for 1000 ps to be paid for in 3 months, wch tho at present is about the Markett price I cant think of accepting of by reason of the time of paymt. If you would sell 1000 or 2000 ps at that price to be pd for in Janry, when I fear you will want a long sum in London, I think it would be adviseable to do it, but this I submit to your better judgement. Mr Mowbrays affair will terminat as hinted in my last & Mr Steel is drawing up the award, but shall make no paymt on that accot till I have your order.

      Miss Allgood was a little indispo’d on Sunday Senight when I called at Rideing, but is now perfectly well as you will find by the inclos’d.

      The four Bills sent you in my last two Lres as within are I hope come safe to hand. If you please to take up Mr Cooks Ball of 194.2.6 I shall charge my self with it on notice & it will be so much return’d you towards the £200 which you have ordered your Bro[the]r to pay me. Mr Howard promis’d be last week to pay off the Remaindr of your Bonds & Notes as yesterday, but did not perform. I find Mr Clark has a writ against Him but do not yet hear of its being executed, Mr. Clark has sent me a Receipt for £10 intrest. If you please to give orders I shall pay it him, Mr Blackett is still at the North & I hear nothing of his moveing southards

      	I am &c	JR