Tue 13 Aug 1811
Meeting at Lombard Street London
Tonnage on paving stone raised in the Forest of Dean and passing the whole length of the Thames and Severn canal shall be reduced to one shilling per ton for the whole length. These reductions to start on the 24th last and to continue till 24th June 1812.
Tonnage on all block stone raised in the Forest of Dean and passing the whole length of the Thames and Severn canal shall be reduced to one shilling per ton for the whole length.
Tonnage on the following goods going on the Thames and Severn canal to and from the following places carried by Richard Miller, John Baker, Joseph Brookings and Lawrence Wyatt and Robert Wyatt shall be reduced two shillings below the present rate of tonnage so long as they shall carry the same at or under the rates herein mentioned agreeable to a paper signed by them bearing date, Brimscombe Port July 26th 1811.
List of goods upon which the carriers will reduce their freight so long as the Thames and Severn canal can reduce their tonnage;
Pig, bar and sheet iron, lead tin and tin plate, anchors, nails, ironware, shovels, copper, anchor palms, brass, and spelter, mahogany, fresh provisions, dye wood, pekin? Tar, turpentine, ivory black, deals, yellow oker (ochre) red ochre, iron hoop, steel, bath, shot, salt petre stone, tallow, madder, sulphur, pottery in crates, hides, seal skins, allum, woad, All at 40 shillings per ton from Cardiff, Newport, River Wye, Bristol, Lydney, Gatcombe, Newnham, Oxford, Abingdon, Wallingford, Pangbourn, Reading, Henley, Temple, Marlow, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines, Chertsey, London.
All at 45/- per ton: Sail cloth, linen rags, soap, gunstocks, wire, beeswax, boxes, glass, bales of linens, verdigrease, leather pimento, ginger, rice, sugar, coffee, pins, perry and cider, varnish, pearl and pot ashes, butter, oil, whalebone, scythes, hay and chaff, knives, indigo, skin, lath, hair, hemp and flax, drugs, starch.
We the undersigned do hereby agree to carry the before mentioned goods to and from the before mentioned places so long as the Thames and Severn Company shall allow a reduction in their tonnage of 2s per ton under the present rate. 26th July 1811. Richard Miller, John Baker, Joseph Brooking, Lawrence Wyatt.
