Fri 20 May 1842
Special Meeting. Committee willing to consider any proposal from Messrs Marling to secure constant and full supply of water to Navigation in way most convenient to both parties.
John Jeane Coney claimed shares nos.168,169,170, wills of Rev Thomas Coney and Rev William Coney.
At a Special Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Walbridge on Friday the 20^th Day of May 1842
Present: M^r Hughes, M^r Jn^o Stanton, M^r Wathen, M^r Beard, M^r Cosham, M^r Martin, M^r Wyatt, M^r Croome, M^r Jos^h Fisher.
M^r Jos^ Fisher in the Chair.
M^r Wathen reporte that M^r S Marling called on him last evening and requested that the Committee would furnish in writing Mess^Rs Marling the particulars of the requirement of the Stroudwater Navigation Company as to the taking of the Water at Elbey Mill and the Committee having taken the subject into consideration decline to make such application in writing & desire Mess^Rs Marling be reminded that having been informed by M^r Wathen of the powers of the Company to take a due supply of Water the Committee are willing to consider any proposal which Mess^rs Marling may make to secure a constant and full supply of water to the Navigation in such way as may be most convenient for all parties, but in default of such proposal from Mess^rs Marling the Committee will consider the course which they will adopt and accordingly adjourned till Friday 10 June to give Mess^rs Marling an opportunity of offering their suggestions.
George Wathen of the Grange in the Parish of Painswick in the county of Gloucester attended this meeting on Behalf of John Jeane Coney Esquire one of the Executors and a Legatee of the Shares hereafter mentioned in the last Will and Testament of the Reverend Thomas Coney late of Batcomb in the county of Somerset with the assent of Thomas Boucher Coney and John Wickham Esquire the other two acting Executors of the same Thomas Coney and which said John Jeane Coney and John Wickham are the acting Executors of the last Will and Testament of William Coney late of Exmouth in the County of Devon Clerk and which said will of the said William Coney is dated the 3^rd day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine and was proved by the said John Jeane Coney and John Wickham the Executors therein names on the thirty first day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and the Will of the said Thomas Coney is dated the eleventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty one and was proved by the said John Jeane Cone and Thomas Boucher Coney and John Wickham three of the Executors named in the last mentioned will on the twenty fifth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and made out the Claim of the said John Jeane Coney to three numbers Viz; 168, 169 and 170 in the undertaking called the Stroudwater Navigation standing in the names of the Said Reverend Thomas Coney and the Reverend William Coney deceased as Executors and Residuary Legatees of the Rev^d William Coney, he having this day produced an Office Copy from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury of the will of the said Reverend WIlliam Coney properly authenticated and also the Probate of the will of he said Thomas Coney under the Seal of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury dated the 12^th of January one thousand eight hundred and forty one and the Claim of the said John Jeane Coney to the said three Shares was admitted accordingly.
