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To Mr Chris.Denton, Grays Inn London 6th Dec 1754 D[ea]r S[i]r Mr Beaumont & Mr Richardson have been with me today, & desire me to write you That if the parties will agree to take £500 & give him up the Wayleave Lease & general Released when the money is all paid, he will pay £100 down & the other £400 in quarterly payments; so that the whole shall be paid in 12 months; but to pay all the money at one time is what he cannot do without the greatest difficulty upon him as he is now laying out his money in winning a new Colliery without having any Income from it at present. Mr Richardson and he would write you by this post to the same purpose & they desire this affair may be kept as private as possible, lest it put Mr Shaftoe in Motion again, tho Mr Beaumont seems determined to try the Matter with him. I am etc JR