Mon 29 Jun 1778
Henry Cook has paid the penalty of £20 for an offence committed by William Pearce and Edward Clissold in obstructing the works of the Navigation.
Messrs Lane and Jepson to be employed as attorneys and solicitors for the whole of the business of the Navigation.
At a Meeting of the Committee held by adjournment at the George Inn in Stroud on Monday the 29^th Day of June 1778
Present: Joseph Wathen, John Hollings, William Knight, Thomas White, Freame Arundell
M^r Henry Cook has paid the penalty of Twenty Pounds for an Offence Committed by William Pearce and Edward Clissold in Obstructing the works of the Navigation.
Mess^rs Lane and Jepson having some time since declined the Business of Attorneys of the Navigation, owing to their not having the whole of the Conveyancing agreeable to the Contract when first engaged by Mess^rs Ellis and Grazebrook, which engagement (relative to the Conveyancing) was not understood by the Committee. We do hereby Resolve that Mess^rs Lane and Jepson be in future employed as our Attorneys and Sollicitors in the whole of the Business of the Navigation And we do Order that M^r John Hollings be desired to inform them of this our Resolution.
Received a Letter from M^r John Lowden of Birmingham, wherein he says he is engaged.
Reced a Letter from M^r Pyke desiring to fix a day for settling with him for M^r Peach's Land. ~~ Ordered that our Clerk do inform him that we will take the earliest Opportunity of seeing M^r Peach on that Business.
Ordered that our Clerk do write to M^r Gardner for his BIll on the Proprietors of the Navigation.
Adjourned this Meeing to Thursday the 9^th day of July next at Ten o Clock in the morning at the George Inn in Stroud.
