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Ravensworth Castle Febry 23d 1738/9
To Mr Willim Radley at Greenwich
Sir
According as you Desired we send you Inclosed Mr Woods Bill for Law Charges in the cause Wood against Moor wch we hope you will lay before the Board, and we hope Also that they will Allow him what it Realy Cost him as he was Desired to Defend the Suit.
We are sorry that we could not gett it sooner to send you we gave early Notice to him to gett us the Bills but as you may seeby it either Mr Warringham or he has wore it in their pockett till it is almost Tore to pieces & we have done what we can to preserve it, being Resolved you should have the Original, whether it is Taxed we know not, but if it is not we hope you will.
We should be much Joyed to see your Leases appear in this part, both the Hospitals estate & we Suffer for want of them. pray make our Complem.ts acceptable to all f[rien]ds at Greenwich we are Sir Your very Hmble Servts.
N:Walton
H:Boag
Copy of Mr [Maughan’s] Bill in this Cause
Moor agst. Wood for [Tyths]
A Bill of all the expences both at Durham and York
[The full table of charges, amounting to £77 6s11d, is available in the PDF version of this transcript]
The law charges account referred to was copied into this volume a few pages earlier, but given here in conjunction with the covering letter. The basis for this case, concerning the right of Moor to claim payment in lieu of tithes from Wood, is described in Wood’s petition to the Hospital 20 November, 1735. Wood had been tenant to the Hospital at East Thornton in Hartburn parish and was supported by the Hospital through the legal proceedings. The initial problem resulted from the actions of the previous receivers, Watson & Hutchinson, and their corrupt bailiff Ralph Readhead. Wood lost his case in the Durham ecclesiastical court and an appeal was heard in York. The sender is not named but assumed here to have been Nicholas Walton.
