Tue 28 Nov 1797
Purchase of coal at Newport. Messrs William Vaughan & Co., cargo of coal ordered.
Four guineas to Elizabeth Crawford of Oxford, widow of Edward Crawford, drowned while working a Company’s Thames boat at Wallingford.
Company’s trows to be registered. Captain Yates should make protest re accident to the Loveden in King Road.
Mr R Smith of Bath proposed to send malt from Abingdon to Bristol.
Report from Captain Wintle on working of schooner Chalie.
Mr Sill’s report on his journey into Gloucestershire and Wales.
Samuel Bird to look for crooked oak timber for the Bourne yard and build a second Severn trow according to Mr Black’s plan.
Enlarging stable at Inglesham. Thomas Toward to make pole irons and barge tackle for the Thames boats.
Benjamin Haines allowed 1s per day extra when absent from home on Company’s service.
