Undated
Benjamin Fennel's Evidence
Benjn Finnell saith he worked four years at the Ryeford as a Millman & three years under a Millman that in the Shortest Water of one very dry Summer he never Pend more than five hours in 18 Hours & the rest ran Waste that very Case - that the Banks were very bad & there is ? Space three yards wide & upwards of one Foot below the Water Mark, where after half a Hour's Pen the Water Waste - that the Flood Gates are very bad that a great Quantity of Water passes in Waste, that if both were in repair very little or no Peng woud be required
that he workd one year & half at Froombridge at the Scour of Bnsk & drove two Heads for over one year without ever Peng - Hath workd more than Eleven Montsh at Merretts Mill on the Stanley Water, the Property of Mr Beard, that the usual Pen is from half an Hour to two Hours & never longer - Hath heard his Master say that he had rather the Navigation from of the Severn to Wallbridge was made but dared not give his Agent as he shod be deprived of going through Mr Bale's Court to his House.
