1810-1812
Gloucestershire Archives
Outgoing letters from London March 1810 - June 1812
About exchanging mortgage for shares.
About exchanging mortgage for shares.
About exchanging mortgage for shares.
Please send dimensions of locks.
Explain why Nathaniel Day was paid as a carpenter when he was engaged as a wharfinger.
About a mortgage and junction with Wilts & Berks Canal.
Money received for coal.
Mentions continuing a bounty on coal.
Mentions certificates for new shares.
Allow bounty on coal.
Allow bounty on coal.
Enclose £20.
£125 mortgage; £20 remitted.
Power of attorney needed to authorise hand over of mortgages.
£110 acknowledged.
About mortgages and bonds.
Enclosing a letter missed from the last post.
Mr Loveden’s indemnity for his £125 mortgage is missing.
Wilts & Berks Co propose a cut into the summit level of our canal. Do you know of an engineer who could advise us.
Mr Loveden’s mortgage not found.
Please sign and return enclosed power of attorney.
Re taking levels, please arrange for Hall & Son of Cirencester to meet the Committee.
Committee visit to canal postponed to 21 May. Please prepare lists of shareholders and bond holders etc.
Mr Lane has prepared the indemnity. Reference to a proposed canal from Bristol to Wilts & Berks Canal.
Reference to proposed canal from Bristol to Wilts & Berks Canal.
Money received for coal, and the indemnity.
Mentions shares and mortgages.
Explanation of deed of agreement.
Committee considering closing the Trade account.
Please consider the options for dealing with your shares.
Need to hear probate details for the late Mr John Bright’s two shares and two half shares
Messrs Chambers and Disney intend to be at Brimscombe on 19 or 20 May and would like accommodation at Brimscombe or Stroud.
Messrs Chambers and Disney would like to meet you and Mr Hall on 23 or 24 May.
I now have your authority to complete the articles of agreement for your and your sister’s shares.
Cash received.
Three bills received.
Transfer of shares.
Cash received.
Cash received and shares in transit.
Cash received.
Bill received.
Receipts enclosed.
Please pass on the enclosed to Miss Stafford.
New shares for you in transit.
Sundry transfers.
Your bill received. You are invited to the General Meeting on 26th.
Dividend of £1 10s to be paid to those who have signed the Articles of Agreement. Invitation to sign.
Cash and bill received.
Mentions proposition received from Wilts & Berks Canal Co. Need to promote improvement to the River Thames.
Cash and bill received
Mill may be begun to be pulled down by the time you get this.
Please sign receipts for dividends paid.
Thank you for your information about surveying the Upper Thames.
I understand the Stroud Lock is finished and the canal should be navigable on Wednesday.
Please send an account of the outstanding debtors for coals.
Please send probate of your father’s will.
Please send half of postage costs from Bristol (2s 3d) to Mr Denyer at Brimscombe
I can offer you £40 for your two shares and two half-shares.
Please report on the condition of Mr Bidmead’s Mill.
Please send a plan of the intended Bristol & Severn Canal.
Please reply to the offer of compensation for your ten half-shares.
The Committee has agreed to increase Thomas Hipsley’s salary to £100 a year.
The Committee cannot offer you more than £50 for your ten half-shares.
The Committee has agreed to increase your salary to £100 a year.
Enclosed is a certificate of the late Samuel Skey’s administration.
Mention of a man who received a penalty of 40s for wasting the water, The committee request full particulars of his conduct.
General Assembly resolution made to discontinue bounties on coal taken by land from 1 Nov to 1 Apr next.
Papers and payments need to be received by the Committee by their next meeting.
To employ Mr Hall of Cirencester who was well known to your late father.
Weekly expectation of seeing a stock of coal at Brimscombe for the purpose of supplying Lechlade Wharf for the winter, so soon as there is water to take them up.
Mr Loveden is a Thames Commissioner as well as a lock owner on the Thames and attends the meetings on his own account.
Committee are sorry for Mr Hill’s situation and are satisfied with Mr Pitt’s guarantee.
The last Bye Laws will be sent tomorrow.
Disappointment in not seeing Mr Mylne at Committee which adjourned to Friday, hoping to see him and Sir Edward Littleton and Mr Lovedon together.
Sir Edward was very unwell on his way to town and did not arrive till Saturday.
Enquiry as to whether notices have been given for a canal from Tewkesbury to Woodstock was to be carried into effect and what effect it would have on the Thames & Severn Canal.
Have understood that the Wilts & Berks intend applying for a bill to make a junction from their canal to Bristol. Question of what line this proposal would take.
Mention of Mr Disney’s query that the proposed Wilts & Berks canal to Bristol would affect the tonnage of the Thames & Severn Canal re iron, copper and tin.
Question also of a possible canal from Tewkesbury to join the Oxford Canal near Woodstock.
Following the acceptance of a forged £1 note, in future please record the name and date of the person you take them from.
£45.15.0 received from Mr T Hipsley on trade account.
Mr Disney is not likely to be present at tomorrow’s Committee meeting as he is going to Bridport.
Prices of coal. Only 50 tons of coal at Lechlade.
Have received £630 from Hordern & Co re shares.
Mention of projected Wilts & Berks Canal.
Mr Black has started communicating with Messrs Boulton & Watt re engine business.
Transfer of two shares from M Walhouse to Sir E Littleton.
A petition from the Wilts & Berks Canal to Parliament for a junction on the Thames & Severn Canal has been presented.
Balance of tonnage account to Christmas last amounted to £381.1.10 and must be paid immediately under threat of unpleasant means.
Holding letter.
Querying the prices of Forest coal from Bullo Pill.
Application (for what?) to be referred to the next meeting of the Thames & Severn Committee.
Mr Salt has received a letter from Messrs Glover & Sons of Lydney who have a coal mine on their estate and are preparing to work it with the coal presumably being ready for delivery in 18 months time. A proposal for consideration to be taken by the Thames & Severn Committee next Tuesday. Question on the respectability of these Lydney people.
Question of price differentials between several Forest coals at Lechlade.
From 1st March suggested coal prices:
Bilston – 31s per ton
Newport – 28s 6d per ton
Lydney – 28s- per ton
Bullo Pill – 27s per ton
Mr Heath of Cirencester has written to Mr Lane saying that his claim on the Thames & Severn Canal for their selling coal contrary to their agreement was agreed to be referred to Mr Cripps.
Usual weekly papers and notes.
Pleased that you have written to Mr Loveden re the Western Junction Canal Bill having been thrown out.
Mr Salt has had a letter from Glover & Sons declining their former offer.
Committee have resolved that the Bullo Pill coal at Lechlade Wharf be further reduced in price to 25s 6d a ton.
M Charlie has sent by the boats 4 dozen of port and 2 dozen of sherry in a cask for the use of the Committee when they visit Brimscombe.
Transfer of a share.
John Brookings called yesterday and paid the remainder of his bill.
The Committee requires you will address a letter to each of the carriers confirming their directions to prevent goods going by the Kennet & Avon Canal.
Your bill to J Ball will be duly honoured .
I will send an account of the profit of the coal trade for the last year.
Sorry not to have been at home when you called on me on Saturday. Mr Charlie, Mr Lane, Mr Rolleston attended the Committee yesterday. Half year proving a very bad one.
Mr Miller delivered your packet this morning. Shares 117, 118 and 119 from Mr Disney to D Bland as mentioned.
Payment agreement £20.2.6.
Usual weekly papers received. Matters arising.
Accounts rendered.
Sundry transactions.
Packet brought by coach arrived too late for the Committee.
Acknowledgement of packet containing two bills.
Question as to whether the lease from Lord Bathurst to Mr Disney of Sapperton Mill is now at Brimscombe.
Discussion about shares and half shares relating to 1796 and 1804.
Sorry to hear about great falling off of goods for Bristol. Probably due the Kennett & Avon Proprietors, for the sake of getting the trade, setting a lesser rate than they can afford.
Sundry transfers and enclosures attached.
Annexed is a transfer of J Knight’s share to Mr Disney.
Cash notes received.
Copy of Resolutions of a General Assembly of the Proprietors of the Thames & Severn Canal held 13th inst for your Government – Mr Wyatt has had a copy of them.
Mr Disney believes the Company ought not to be without the wharf at Lechlade belonging to William Hill’s Estate, and he thinks you should buy it in the cheapest way you can.
We understand that a dividend of 17s in the £ is about to be paid on Sills & Co’s debts and that there are effects sufficient to pay all. Small debts under a certain sum they are paying in full.
Mr Cocker informed me that he had written to you respecting the £200 and interest due to him as representative of William Smith.
Weekly papers received plus a bill for £232.9.7 to the credit of the Thames & Severn Canal.
Request for notes you have of bills as we will receive the money for them as they are paying them in full.
Papers enclosing 2 leases for Mr Disney
Packet received enclosing bank notes and bills for £208.7.11.
PS – Committee requests the earliest information of the sale of Hill’s Wharf at Lechlade.
The Committee meeting today ask for your opinion of the value of William Hill’s Coal Wharf together with ground size, buildings thereon and any other ground which could be hired out or purchased.
Effects of a railway from Leckhampton to Guiting Quarries. Good if we can get stone into our canal.
Mr Hipsley written to about the bad coal.
A fresh notice is given for a junction with the Wilts & Berks Canal. It should be fully investigated with regard to the interests of the Thames & Severn Canal before it goes into Parliament.
Will be best to carry your draft to Lindon for £90.12.0 to oak timber account after closing the half yearly statement.
Hathaway does not accept the carriers bills.
Mr Loveden informed the Committee that there was a quantity of very bad coal on Lechlade Wharf.
On 23rd we received £40 from Mr Hipsley to credits of trade accounts.
Half years use of room re attendance on the Committee £25.
Committee desires you not to think about purchasing Mr Hill’s wharf at Lechlade without their further directions.
Observation of what has been said regarding the junction of the Wilts & Berks Canal but Mr Disney has been away.
Shall not fail to put your yesterday’s letter to the next Thames & Severn Canal’s Committee meeting.
Annexed particulars stated that £500 is transferred to the trade account.
Transactions through our hands should not tarrv but pass through our books immediately.
Weekly papers received.
The Committee were yesterday disappointed in not seeing the Brimscombe accounts.
Annexed a copy of a letter Mr Loveden. Request you to reply, as the matter is quite out of my power.
As I have no document with details you require, I have sent a copy of your letter to Mr Denyer.
The weekly papers were not delivered until 5 o’clck last night. The Stroud Mail not bringing the letters to London is very late in its arrival (11 o’ clock), too late for what the coach masters call their first delivery.
Mr Hipsley notes that the Wilts & Berks are underselling him on Tenby Coal at Longcot Wharf, their charges being 53s a ton ours about 57s or 3s 2d a barrel.
Not enough gentlemen to make a committee on Tuesday.
Usual weekly papers received.
Committee has made an order to reduce the price of Tenby coal at Lechlade Wharf to be sold in future at 3s a barrel.
The Committee of the Thames & Severn Canal have asked me to let you know that they find it necessary to make a horse towing path from Brimscombe to Stroud and are about to make an order for it to be made. Suggest that the Stroudwater do the same along their canal.
The Committee ask you to send the pleasure boat to Cricklade to be there for Tuesday 17th for people who I believe are going into the Thames with it.
An order was made yesterday to reduce the selling price of Tenby coal at Lechlade Wharf from 3s 2d to 3s a barrel and Mr Hipsley has been directed accordingly.
We are going to call a general meeting of the Proprietors at the Globe Tavern on 7th January so please send a list of the present ones.
The Committee have asked me to ask you if you think the iron from the upper parts of the Severn can be regained by any or what reduction in tonnage.
Have received your letter of yesterday enclosing a letter from Mr Miller to you and another from Mr Lewis to him – any unpleasantness is regretted.
Would be nice if the pipes could begin to pass along the T&S Canal but understand that they are contracted to be delivered at Paddington which operates against us.
Deferring reply till after next Committee meeting and sending names of the present Committee.
No meeting on 24th. Failed to advise on bill to R Miller.
Receipt for cash, etc. Committee meeting to be on 7th.
Lechlade coal business to be altered from 5th April.
Enclosing resolutions passed on 7th with copy for Mr Miller.
See that carriers make necessary reductions on goods that have had tonnage rates reduced.
Referred to special meeting of the Committee last Thursday regarding the reduction of tonnages.
Packet received. Mr Harford will order a new ledger.
Enter the annexed certificate of the Register of Mrs Jebb’s will.
Received cash and a bill.
Son’s draft for £5 remained in my hands.
Another meeting is called for the 18th March. Some proprietors are considering to approve the junction with the Wilts & Berks as well as the certain lock owners. I shall not hesitate to act as your proxy in favour of the resolution for the junction.
The Committee have resolved that you purchase the timber Mr Procter has recommended – about 800 tons now at Thames Head.
I hope that the terms of the Junction will be fully and fairly discussed, through the resolutions of the 12th will leave them quite open.
Interview with Mr Disney and Mr Lane who came in consequence of the application made to Mr J Lefevree by Loveden respecting their bill but saying that they could not consent to the postponement of it nor could they without the consent of a General meeting of the Thames Committee allow any alteration in the sum the clause in the bill authorized them to borrow. They should not require anything like the £50,000 they should have power to borrow for the works now in view but as to improving further the upper district they should never get five shillings interest for their money. Approval to the proposed Junction with the Wilts & Berks.
Papers received and letter read to meeting at the Globe as you requested. Resolutions at the meeting are annexed (not recorded)
There will be an article to charge previous to closing the half-year’s accounts: say for use of room for the committee - half a year £25.
Letters received.
Committee wish to be informed how long from whom the £225 Wallbridge tonnage has been accumulating being a large sum on that account.
We agree the balance of trade are £453.18.7 and it is passed to credit of the Proprietors account.
Presumption that postages for Lechlade may be kept separate and advised at the end of the year as an appendage to the coal account.
Please let us know if Hill’s Wharf at Lechlade is to be disposed of.
The proprietors desire that you will not lose sight of Hill Wharf at Lechlade although they think the money marked for it far beyond its value. You will endeavour to learn in what manner it is to be sold, whether by public auction or private contract. The wharf is certainly desirable for the Company of being the only certain one at Lechlade. They do not seem inclined to bid £1000.
Regarding land at Lechlade purchased of Mrs Coffin in 1797.
