Document 51, Copy letter from Ralph Heron to Henry Errington, 16 January 1784, p 1
| Copy 112 | ||||
| [Sir?] | ||||
| I delivered your proposal with Mr Smeatons Letter | ||||
| and Estimate to the Clerk of the Peace on the 27th of December | ||||
| having first taken Copies to enable me, if necessary, to prove | ||||
| such delivery; on Sunday the 11th instant about Noon I received | ||||
| a Card from the Clerk of the peace dated the 10th a copy of which | ||||
| I send you herewith – At the Sessions which was held at Morpeth | ||||
| on the 14th I was desired to attend the Justices in a private Room, | ||||
| those then present were – Aynsley – Tweddell – Bigge – Watson | ||||
| Askew – Charlton – Trevelyan – Grieve – Orde – Bainbridge – | ||||
| Vaughan – Gallon – and two new ones Admiral Roddam and | ||||
| John Lowes, in all 14 – the Clerk of the peace read a long | ||||
| Memorial of Mr Milne's which contained many Strictures | ||||
| upon Mr Smeaton's Estimate, and referred to an Estimate made | ||||
| by Milne himself in which he computes the Sum necessary to | ||||
| re build the Bridge according to your Contract at £3800, but | ||||
| out of Lenity he recomends to the Justices to accept £3400 – | ||||
| You being at the Expence of the Act of Parliament and granting | ||||
| liberty to win Stones out of your Estate without any satisfactn | ||||
| except for damage of Soil – the money to be paid by half- | ||||
| yearly payments, and the Justices to be at full liberty either to | ||||
| rebuild the Bridge in the same or in any other place they shall | ||||
| think proper so as it be built over the River Tyne near | ||||
| Hexham – there were many other less material things contained | ||||
| in this Memorial, but not having had an opportunity to – | ||||
| peruse it I pick'd up the above from the Clerk of the peaces | ||||
| reading – after he had finished I was desired to withdraw | ||||
| that they might deliberate – and I was at last told that the | ||||
| Clerk of the peace should the next day give me their final | ||||
| resolution in writing – upon this your friend Mr Tweddell | ||||
| and I left Morpeth – Mr Wastell was not at Morpeth on | ||||
| the Wednesday but got there early on the Thursday morning on | ||||
| which Day the Deliberation of the Justices was resumed and | ||||
| in the Evening I received a Letter from the Clerk of the peace | ||||
| of which I send you a Copy – from which you will see that all Treaty | ||||
| is | ||||
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