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Letter from the Rev Mr Rickman (Newburn) to Mr Ralph Heron

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Thomas Rickman

Sirs                               Newburn 18th Janry 1772

                    I did Myself the Pleasure to wri[  ]you about a
Week since in Answer to a Letter of yours relating to [ ]he Money to be
distributed amongst the distress'd Sufferers by the late great Flood
within this Losses Parish, whose Losses amounted to £15..10..10½.
wch at 4/6 in the Pound amounts to £3..9..11.  Which as I inform'd
you I had distributed out of the Money collected ----------I am
mortified to see other Parishes so far beyond us. I have travel'd near
a mile for every Shilling I have collected & the whole amounts to no
more than £4..1..0.--------You will therefore be pleased to enter us
us on the Subscription Book for this Sum, & receive the enclos'd
say [?] 11/- as the Balance due from me.
                             There are two Reasons wch account in some
Measure for the Failure of my Collection.  A Sum about equal to
what I have collected had before been given to the Sufferers, & before I had
visited the most distant northern part of our Parish a sad Misfortune
hath happen'd to us nearer home, namely a Fire wch hath consumed
the House, Household Furniture, Timber, Working Tools, of a
Wheelright & Joyner at Lemington, whose Loss will go on for to a
Hundred & for wch a Subscription is setting on foot, & our Neighbours
now reserve their Liberality for him
                                   I am
If there is any Balance               Sir
due to you on this acco I will     Your most humble Sert.
with Pleasure pay it, when I                Thos Rickman
see you at Hexham.

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