Blount MSS, C 64/69–291

1. Bryan Tunstall to MS at Gray's Inn. 28 December 1731. Blount MSS, C 64/69

York Decembr the 28th 1731

Sir

Dr Carnabys sending you some Bills payable as he tells me the 7th of next month (of which moneys he has desired you to pay to my order eighty five pounds) gives me this favourable opportunity of saluting my old acquaintance with my best wishes of an happy new year:

I beg you will be so kind as to pay to Mr Tho Day fifty pounds of the said money to whom I have accordingly given a bill upon you and another for £35 to Mr Richard Brigham or order payable at 12 days after date when I suppose you will have received the money.

I should be glad of any occasion of serving you in these parts and of showing you with how much esteem & sincerity I am

Sir / your humble servt / Bryan Tunstall[…]

2. MS to Cuthbert Constable. 18 April 1732. Blount MSS, B 25, fols 87–9

London Apr. 18th. 1732.

Sir.

I have the favour of both your Letters and beg Leave to give you my Sentiment of what I Apprehend you are no wayes concernd in Interest in, but may be a Dispute of Right betwixt the present Earl and his Niece. The Collonel by his Will after Subjecting his real Estate to the paymt of such of his Debts as his personal Estate would not extend to pay Devised the same real Estate to Lady Mary [Radclyffe?] for Life, Rent to James Earl of D. [Derwentwater] his heirs and Assignes for ever. By this Will which must be the Guide in this Dispute the personal Estate of which the Norham Tythes were part must first be Exhausted by payment of Debts before the real Estate can be Charged, and then the real Estate or so much thereof, as was not Disposed of for paymt. of Debts was to goe according to the Devise that is to Lady Mary for life Rem[ainde]r. to Ld. D. in Fee.