Letter – Unsigned to Messrs Drummond – 22 May 1802

Messrs. Drummond						N.Castle May 22d. 1802.

Bankers London



Gentn.

      Inclosed you will receive a Bill drawn by Messrs. Surtees’s Burdon & Brandling on Messrs. Ransom & Co. at thirty Days dated this Day, for four hundred & sixty-two Pounds, ten Shillings, to pay half a year’s Composition for the Lot Ore of Weardale Leadmines due the 26th. inst. to the Lord Bishop of Durham from Coln. Beaumont.  Please [struck out: to send me a proper] acknowledge the Receipt of this sum, [struck out: on the other Side is a Copy of that formerly given.]  for that purpose.   I am &c -



[paragraph struck out: Received 16 March 1797 of Thos. Rd. Beaumont Esqr. by the Payment of J.E.Blackett Esqr. the Sum of four hundred and sixty-two Pounds 10s/-d for half a years Compositon for the Lot Ore of Weardale Leadmines due the 26th Feby last to the Lord Bishop of Durham, by whose Order and for whose <lese>  the same is received by us.---

£462 – 10 - ..]





£462.10. .. No. 7375 Newcastle upon Tyne        May 22d. 1802

Thirty Days after Date pay to the Order of J.E.Blackett Esqr. four Hundred & sixty-two Pounds ten Shillings Value recd. Surtees’s Burdon & Brandling

Messrs Ransom Morland & Co. Bankers Pall Mall 

London