Willm Dallaway Thomas Baylis Willm Knight Thomas White Joseph Wathen Robert Ellis Timhy Lewis Richd Aldridge George Hawker John Hawker.
At a Meeting of the Directors held by Adjournment on the 19th of January 1775 at the George in Stroud Present: Willm Dallaway in the Chair, Robert Ellis, Willm Knight, Thomas White, Joseph Wathen, George Hawker, James Winchcombe, Richd Aldridge, John Hollings, Thomas Baylis.
At a meeting of the Directors held by Adjournment on the 2d Day of February 1775 at the George at Stroud Present: Will'm Dallaway, George Hawker, Joseph Wathen, John Hollings, Thomas Baylis, Thomas White, Richd Aldridge, Robert Ellis, [Mr Jones employed] Resolved that Mr Saml Jones be employed for the Execution of the Lower Lock at one Guinea and a half per week ~~ that he Imediately go down to the Severn to See its Situation, and that he shall go and visit the Witch and the Stour Port Navigations for his Improvement.
At a meeting of the Directors held by Adjournment at the George in Stroud on the 16th Day of February 1775 Present: Will'm Dallaway in the Chair, George Hawker, Will'm Knight, Timothy Lewis, Thomas Baylis, Robert Ellis, Joseph Wathen, James Winchcombe, Richd Aldridge, Thomas White.
At a Meeting of the Directors held at the George in Stroud on Thursday the 23d of February 1775 by Adjournment Present: Will'm Dallaway in the Chair, Richd Aldridge, Joseph Wathen, Thos Baylis, George Hawker, James Winchcombe, Tim Lewis.
At an Adjourned Meeting of the Directors of the Stroudwater Navigation held this Ninth Day of March 1775 at the George in Stroud Present: Timothy Lewis in the Chair, John Hollings, George Hawker, Thomas White, Joseph Wathen, Richard Aldridge, Robert Elliss, James Winchcombe, Thomas Baylis.
At an Adjourned Meeting of the Director of the Stroud Water Navigation held this 23rd Day of March 1775 at the George in Stroud Present: Timothy Lewis in the Chair, John Hollings, George Hawker, Richard Aldridge, Robert Elliss, Thomas White, Thomas Baylis.
At an Adjourned Meeting of the Directors of the Stroud Water Navigation Adjourned to and held at Mr Halls at Framiload this 29th day of March Present: Timothy Lewis in the Chair, Tomas Baylis, Robert Ellis, John Hollings, George Hawker, Richard Aldridge.
At an Adjourned Meeting of the Directors of the Stroud water Navigation held the 6th Day of April 1775 at the George Inn at Stroud Present: Timothy Lewis in the Chair, Joseph Wathen, George Hawker, Thomas Baylis, Robert Ellis, John Hollings, Thomas White, Richard Aldridge.
At an Adjourned Meeting of the Directors of the Stroud water Navigation held on this 20th Day of April at the George in Stroud Present: Timothy Lewis in ye Chair, Thomas White, William Knight, Robert Elliss, Joseph Wathen, Richard Aldridge, George Hawker, John Hollings, Thomas Baylis.
At an adjourned Meeting ot the Directors of the Stroud Water Navigation held this 3rd Day of May 1775 at the George Inn at Stroud Present: Timothy Lewis in ye Chair, Thomas Baylis, George Hawker, James Winchcombe, Robert Elliss, John Hollings, Richard Aldridge, Joseph Wathen, William Knight, Thomas White.
At an adjourned Meeting of the Directors of the Stroud water Navigation held this 10th Day 0f May at the George Inn at Stroud Present: Timothy Lewis in ye Chair, Joseph Wathen, William Knight, John Hollings, Robert Ellis, George Hawker, James Winchcombe, Richard Aldridge, Thomas White, Thomas Baylis.
At a Meeting held at Stroud by Adjournment on the 7th of June 1775 Present: Mr Wm Dallaway, Joseph Wathern, Thos Baylis, George Hawker, Richard Aldridge, John Hollings, Thos White.
At a General Meeting hold by Adjournment at the George Inn Stroud on Thursday the 20th of July 1775 Present: Willm Dallaway, George Hawker, Willm Knight, Durley Winter, Joseph Wathen, John Hollins, Robt Ellis, James Winchcomb, Richd Aldridge [ a bill drawn on the Treasurer] Drew a Bill on Mr Colborne in favour of Mr Richd Hale for the Ballance of his Accot … £150..12..0 Adjourned the General Meeting of the Commissioners to Thursday the 27th of July Inst: and also the Meeting of the Committee at the same time.
At a General Meeting hold by Adjournment at the George Inn Stroud on the 7th of August 1775 Willm Dallaway Chairman, Thos Baylis, Timothy Lewis, Joseph Wathen, Richd Bigland, James Winchcombe, John Hollins, Richd Aldridge, Durley Wintle, Robt Ellis, George Hawker.
At a Meeting of the Committee held by adjournment at the George Inn in Stroud on Thursday the 12th Day of October 1775 Present: Timothy Lewis, John Hollings, Joseph Wathen, George Hawker, Robert Elliss, James Winchcombe.
Whereas an Act was made in the Third Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for making navigable the River Stroudwater, in the County of Gloucester, from the River Severn, at or near Framiload, to Wallbridge, near the Town of Stroud, in the same County: And whereas by the said Act certain Persons therein named, their Heirs, or Assigns, or Nominees, were authorised and impowered, at their proper Costs and Charges, to make the said River, called Stroudwater, navigable and passable for Boats, Barges, Lighters, and other Vessels, from the River Severn, at or near Framiload aforesaid, to Wallbridge, near the Town of Stroud aforesaid, and from Time to Time to continue, maintains, and use such Navigation in such Manner as they should think fit; and, for the better effecting the Premises, Commissioners were, by the said Act, nominated to determine Differences between the Undertakes and other Persons concerned; but no Proceedings were had towards making the said Navigation: And whereas an Act was made in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of this said late Majesty, to amend and explain the said former Act, whereby other Persons therein named, their Heirs, Assigns, or Nominees, were impowered to make and maintain the said Navigation, in Manner and by the Ways and Means therein mentioned: And whereas by the said Act it was provided, that, in case the said Undertakers should not finish their said Undertaking one or before the Twenty-ninth Day of September, One thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, or within such further Time as the Commissioners should think proper to allow for finishing the same, the Powers, Authorities, Rights, Privileges, and Advantages, by the said Act granted to and vested in them, should cease and determine; and all the Lands, Engines, and Machines which should then have been by them purchased, erected, and made, for the Use and Purpose of the said Navigation, should be forfeited to the Commissioners appointed by and in pursuance of the said former Act, who were impowered to grand and convey the same to any other Person or Persons who should be willing to complete the said Undertaking in the Manner intended by, and under the Conditions, Privileges, Restrictions, and Limitations of the said former Act, in such Manner as might have been done in case the said last-mentioned Act had not been made: And whereas the Undertakers under the said last-mentioned Act made some Progress towards effecting the said Navigation, but did not complete he same, notwithstanding they has a further Time of Six Years allowed them for that Purpose, pursuant to the Provisions of the said Act: And whereas, upon the Eighth Day of December, One thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, the several Persons hereinafter named entered into an Article of Subscription for raising the Sum of Twenty thousand Pounds for making the said Navigation, to be divided and distinguished into Two hundred equal Parts or Shares, at the Rate of One hundred Pounds per Share, and agreed to advance and pay such Sum or Sums of Money as should respectively belong to the Share or Shares subscribed for, according to the Tenor of the said Article; videlicet, the Right Honourable the Lord Ducie Two Shares, Sir Onesiphorus Paul Baronet One Share, William Dallaway Three Shares, William Dallaway, for his Daughter Elizabeth, One Share, William Dallaway for his Daughter Rebecca Catherine, One Share, William Knight Two Shares, George Hawker, Six Shares, Joseph Wathen, Five Shares, Richard Aldridge Four Shares, James Winchcombe Five Shares, Thomas Baylis Eight Shares, John Holling Two Shares, Benjamin Grazebrook Six Shares, Fream Arundell Three Shares, Thomas Crozier Arundell Two Shares, Richard Hawker and Son Five Shares, John Butt Five Shares, Thomas White, Seven Shares, William Capell Two Shares, William Smith Two Shares, James Croome Three Shares, Wiiliam Wathen Two Shares, Richard Bigland Two Shares, Nathaniel Jones One Share, Francis Knight One Share, Thomas James One Share, Richard Gabb One Share, George Summer One Share, Rowles Scudamore One Share, Charles Freebury One Share, Robert Ellis One Share, Henry Shephard One Share, Anna Haynes One Share, Durley Wintle Five Shares, William Ellis One Share, James Dallaway Two Shares, William Hopton One Share, Hester Pegler One Share, John Gardner Ten Shares, Benjamin Fisher One Share, William Tombs One Share, Edmund Clutterbuck Two Shares, Daniel Clutterbuck One Share, Nathaniel Perks Two Shares, John Allaway Five Shares, Charles Page Two Shares, Timothy Lewis One Share, Bathurst Lewis, Son of Timothy Lewis, One Share, George Lewis, One Share, Joshua Thomas One Share, William Sevill Two Shares, John Wight One Share, William Sevill junior Two Shares, Anthony Keck One Share, Samuel Baylis Three Shares, John Cambridge Two Shares, William Turner One Share, Samuel Jones Two Shares, Samuel Arundell Three Shares, Jane Sheppard Two Shares, Samuel Peach One Share, Samuel Bowyer One Share, Abel Grey Two Shares, Thomas Gibson Four Shares, Thomas Bradbury Winter Four Shares, Bicknel Coney and John Wilson Five Shares, Elizabeth Hawes One Share, Thomas Colborne Two Shares, John Kemmett Two Shares, Joseph Beddome Two Shares, Rebecca Ann, Daughter of Joseph Beddome, Two Shares, Susanna Dallaway One Share, Elizabeth Clissold, Daughter of Nathaniel Clissold, One Share, John Clissold Two Shares, John Billingsley Two Shares, Richard Hall One Share, William Tombs One Share, John Mills One Share, Hannah Beale Two Shares, Abraham Wallbank One Share, Samuel Wallbank One Share, Joseph Cripps, Son of Joseph Cripps, One Share, Edward Cripps, Son of Joseph Cripps, One Share, Samuel Vines One Share and John Dauncey One Share.
Mr George Hawker elected as new Chief Clerk with a salary of £120 per annum free of taxes.
Key of the chest delivered to Mr George Hawker.
10 guineas be given to George Hawker for completing an index to the Company’s proceedings.
George Hawker attended on behalf of John Scandret Harford, Abraham Grey Harford Battersby (late Abram Gray Harford) & Charles Gray Harford of the City of Bristol Esqrs acting executors in trust & the other Executors & Executrix in trust of the late John Scandret Harford of the City of Bristol deceased and made out their Claim to Eleven Shares Nos 23, 24, 15, 95, 200, 27, 28, 29, 30, 90 & 114 n the Stroud Water Navigation late the property of the said John Scandret Harford deceased by producing the Probate of the Will of the said John Scndrett Harford deceased, bearing date the 6th day of December 1813 and duly proved in the perogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the 23 day of March 1815 By which it appears that Mary Harford widow of the said John Scandret Harford deceased and also the said John Scandret Harford, Abraham Gray Harford Battersby (late Abraham Gray Harford) Charles Gray Harford, Alfred Harford & William Henry Harford, are joint Executrix & Executors in trust of the said Will, & that the said Probate thereof was granted to them the said John Scandret Harford, Abra' Gray Harford Battersby (late Abram Gray Harford) & Charles Gray Harford, three of the Executors in trust thereof & Their Claim is hereby admitted.
George Hawker attended on behalf of John Snowden of Stroud Esqr executor to the Will of the late James Tyers of Field Place in the Parish of Stroud Esqr deceased, and made out his claim to five Shares Nos 103, 79, 80.
George Hawker to negotiate this with Mr Grazebrook.
The salary of George Hawker to be increased to £160 per annum.
George Hawker attended on behalf of Susan Harvey widow & Mary Nourse Spinster, both of Ross in the County of Hereford, Executrixes in trust of the late Thomas Harvey,, of Ross in the County of Hereford deceased, & made their Claim to one Share No 155 in the Stroudwater Navigation late the Property of the said Thomas Harvey deceased by producing the probate of the Will of the said Thomas Harvey deceased bearing date the 7th day of December 1809 & duly proved in the prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the 29th day of Feby 1816 by which it appears that the said Susan Harvey (widow of the said Thomas Harvey deceased) & also the said Mary Nourse Spinster, are joint Executrixes in trust of the said will & that the said probate thereof was granted to them the said Susan Harvey & the said Mary Nourse & their Claim is hereby admitted.
George Hawker attended on the behalf of Mr William Beale of Hyde Court in the Parish of Minchinhampton in the County of Gloucester and Executor of Hannah Beale late of Hyde Court in the Parish of Minchinhampton in the said County of Gloucester Spinster, deceased, and mode out his Claim to four Shares Nos 193, 194, 158 & 159 in the Stroudwater Navigation the property of the said Hannah Beale, by producing the probate of the Will of the said Hannah Beale bearing date the first day of June in the Year of our Lord Once Thousand Eight Hundred & fourteen and duly proved in the prerogative Court of the ArchBishop of Canterbury the 16th day of September in the Year of our Lord 1819, whereby it appears that the said WIllm Beale is the sole Executor thereof, and his Claim is hereby admitted.
George Hawker attended on behalf of Edward Wilbraham of Cirencester in the County of Gloucester Esqr and William Browning Smith of Horseley in the County of Gloucester Clothier administratorys of the Will & Codicil of Henry Sheppard late of Barton End in the Parish of Horseley in the County of Gloucester Gentleman deceased & made out their Claim to one Share No 94 in the Stroudwater Navigation the property of the said Henry Sheppard deceased by producing an administration with the Will annexed of the said Henry Sheppard deceased bearing date the 11th day of January 1817 and duly administered in the prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the 17th day of July 1820 Whereby it appears that the said Edward Wilbraham & William Browning Smith are so deemed deputed and constituted Administrators of the said Will whereby the said Edward Wilbraham & William Browning Smith are become entitled to the said Share and their Claim is hereby admitted.
The salary of George Hawker, clerk of the canal navigation, to be raised to the sum of £200 per annum as a consideration for his long and faithful services.
George Hawker attended on behalf of Thomas Smith John Blew & Joseph Blew the Executors named and appointed in & by the late Will & Testament of Samuel Smith late of Bromsgrove in the County of Worcester Gentleman bearing date the 14h day of February 1821 & proved in the prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the 19th day of April 1821 & made out the Claim to two Shares Nos 42 & 122 in the Stroudwater Navigation late the property of the said Samuel Smith deceased, Whereby it appears that the said Thomas Smith John Blew and Joseph Blew are the Executors of the said Will and their claim is hereby admitted accordingly.
George Hawker appeared on behalf of Robert Snow of the City of Westminster Esqure and John Paul Paul of Highgrove in the Parish of Tetbury in the County of Gloucester Esqr the Executors in trust named and appointed in & by the last Will & Testament of Sir Geo Onesiphorus Paul late of the Hill House in the Parish of Rodborough in the said County of Gloucester Baronet deceased, and made out theri Claim to one Share N0 3 in the Stroudwater Navigation the property of the said Sir G O Paul; the will bearing date the 24th day of January 1814 & the first Codicil the 31sr day of March 1824 & duly proved in the prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the 24th day of October 1821.
Portrait of George Hawker to be paid for from the funds of the said company and be kept in the Committee Room.
Mr George Hawker attended on behalf of Susannah Capel of Prestbury in the County of Gloucester Widow, Joseph Watts of Stratford House in the Parish of Stroud in the County of Gloucester Esqr & the Revd Christopher Capel of Clive in the County of Gloucester Clerk, three of the Executors of William Capel late of Prestbury in the County of Gloucester Esqr deceased & made out their claim to six Shares Nos 146, 7, 120,.
George Hawker appeared on behalf of Peter Drew of Stroud in the County of Gloucester Gentleman Legatee in & by the last Will & Testamnet of William Drew of Salmon's Mill in the Parish of Painswick in the said County of Gloucester Gentleman deceased & made out his claim to one Share N0 89 in the Stroudwater Navigation the property of the said William Drew, by producing the probate of the Will of he said William Drew bearing date the 4th of December 1833 & duly proved in the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Gloucester teh 31st day of December 1823.
Mr George Hawker attended on the part of Ann Sharpe and Mary Sharpe, daughters of Mary Sharpe late of Crown Court in the parish of St James, Westminster, deceased, and made claim for each of them to two Shares in the Stroudwater Navigation (late the property of the said Mary Sharpe deceased) under the Will of the said Mary Sharpe deceased bearing date the tenth day of March 1818 and proved in the prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the 12th day of April 1825, whereby two shared in the said Navigation were bequeathed to each of them the said Ann Sharpe and Mary Sharpe, the daughters.
Mr George Hawker appeared on behalf of Anne James, Widow, the Relict of the Reverend William James late of Painswick in the County of Gloucester, deceased, and made claim for her, the said Anne James, (as Administratrix of the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said William James) to two shares (Numbers 41 and 50) in the Stroudwater Navigation standing in the name of the said William James by producing the Letters of Administration granted to the said Anne James by the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the twenty Eighth day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty five - to administer the said Goods Chattels and Credits - and the Claim of the said Anne Jones is allowed accordingly.
Examined the Books and Accounts of the Company, George Hawker attended on behalf of Elizabeth Cambridge of Cleveden in the County of Somerset Spinster and made out her Claim to five Shares Nos 106, 107, 108, 109 and 110 in the Stroudwater Navigation late the property of her mother Mary Cambridge late of Cleveden aforesaid Widow deceased by producing the Letters of Administration of the Goods and Effects of the said Mary Cambridge dated the fourteenth day of December instant granted to the said Elizabeth Cambridge by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, And the Claim of the said Elizabeth Cambridge as such Administratrix is hereby admitted.
Plan and section of the proposed weir at Wheatenhurst Lock copied from Mr. William Clegram's drawing 12/12/1831 by George Hawker
Much of loss sustained by insolvency of Thomas Harper, agent for coals at Dudbridge Wharf, attributed to George Hawker.
William Halliday and wife Susannah accepted as sureties for bond taken from Mr George Hawker.
George Hawker of the parish of Painswick in the County of Gloucester, Gentlemad, attended on the part of Caroline Mary Veel now of late of Chipping Sodbury in the County of Gloucester, Spinster, The Revd David Jones nor or late of the same place, and Robert Cooper of Woottonunderedge in the same County, Esquire, Executrix and Executors named in the last Will and Testament of Anna Veel late of Chipping Sodbury aforesaid, Spinster, deceased, and made out thei claim as such Executrix and Executors aforesaid to Two Shares (number 128 and 130) in the Stroudwater Navigation standing in the name of the said Anna Veel by producing the Probate of the last Will and Testament of the said Anna Veel dated the Twenty sixth day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty two and proved by them in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury the twenty eighth day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
George Hawker of the parish of Painswick in the county of Gloucester, Gentleman, attended on the part of James Duberly of Mount St, Berkeley Square, London, Esquire, Charles St Barbe Esquire and David Rowley Esquire, Executors named in the Codicil to the last Will and Testament of Sir James Duberly late of Gains Hall in the county of Huntingdon deceased, and made out their claim, as Such Executors as aforesaid, to Five Shares (Numbered 51, 82, 83,16 and 17) in the Undertaking called the Stroudwater Navigation, standing in the name of the said Sir James Duberly; by producing a Probate of the Last Will and Testament and Codicil of the said Sir James Duberly, the Will bearing date the 18th day of June 1825 and the Codicil bearing date the 2nd day of May 1832, and proved by the said Executors in the prerogative Court of Canterbury the 21st day of July 1832: - And the Claim of the said James Duberly, Charles St Barbe and David Rowley, as such Executors as aforesaid, was admitted accordingly.
Articles of a Agreement indented had made concluded and agreed upon this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty three Between George Basham of Ebley in the parish of Stonehouse in the County of Gloucester Road Surveyor of the one part and George Hawker of Wallbridge in the parish of Painswick in the said County of Gloucester Gentleman (on the part and behalf of "The Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation") on the other part.
Mr George Hawker attended on the part of James George of the City of Bristol Esqr, Edeard Francis Colston of Weymouth in the County of Dorset and of Shepton Mallet in the County of Somerset Esquire, and Thomas Henry Hele Phipps of Butleigh Court in the parish of Butleigh in the County of Somerset Esquires, and made out their Claim (as Trustees and Executors of the last Will and Testament and Codicis therto, of William Jenkins late of Shepton Mallet in the said County of Somerset Esquire) to Five Shares (numbered 21, 26, 39,174 and 184) in the Undertaking of the Stroudwater Navigation, standing in the mane of the said William Jenkins deceased; - by producing the probate (dated the 28th day of March 1837, under the Seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury) of the Will of the said William Jenkins, dated the 17th day of May 1827, and of the four several Codicils thereto, dated respectively the 15th day of May 1832, the 14th day of January 1834, the 6th day of September 1835 and the 8th day of September 1836 whereby it appeared that the said James George & Edward Francis Colston were named & appointed Executors of the said William Jenkins in and by the said Will, and that the said Thomas Henry Hele Phipps was named and appointed an Executor in and by the Codicil of the fourteenth day of January 1834.
Mr George Hawker of the Wharf in the parish of Painswick in the county of Gloucester Gentleman attended on the part of Thomas Perry of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Esquire, the Brother and the Sole Executor named in the last Will and Testament of James Perry heretofore the .. late of Wolverhampton aforesaid Esquire deceased, and made out the claim of the said Thomas Perry to Three Shares, Numbered 72, 188 and 152, in the Undertaking called the Stroudwater Navigation standing in the name of the said James Perry deceased, by producing the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of the said James Perry deceased (the Will having date the first day of November 1804) under Seal of the prerogative of Canterbury bearing date the 10th day of November 1837, And the Claim of the said Thomas Perry to the said three Shares was admitted accordingly.
Mr George Hawker appeared on the part of Robert Vaughan Richards Esquire and claimed for him the said Robert Vaughan Richards (as one of the Surviving Executors of Matthew Chalic formerly of Minchin Land London but late of Wellington Street in the Strand in the county of Middlesex and of Bolingbroke Battersea Rise in the County of Surrey Esquire deceased) two Shares (Numbered 199 and 102) in the Undertaking of the Stroudwater Navigation standing in the names of the said Matthew Chalic; and the said George Hawker produced the probate of the WIll of the said Matther Chalic (and the Various Codicils thereto) bearing date the third day of July 1823 whereby he the said Matthew Chalic appointed Elizabeth Hoper, Catherine Sarah Hoper and the said Robert Vaughan Richards Executors such probate under the Seal of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury dated the 11th day of June 1838 being granted to the said Robert Vaughan Richards as one of the Surviving Executors of the said Matthew Chalic.
Mr George Hawker appeared on the part of the Revd WIlliam Colston of Brougton Hall near Lechlade in the County of Gloucester Clerk, the Residuary Legatee of and the Sole Executor named in the last Will and Testament of Alexander Townsend late of Theescombe in the parish of Minchinhampton in the said county of Gloucester deceased, bearing date the 29th day of April 1836, (in which said Will the said William Colston is called by mistake William Coulston) & proved by the said William Colston in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury the 19th day of January 1838, and made out the Claim of the said William Colston to one Share, numbered 154, in the Undertaking of the Stroudwater Navigation, standing in the name of the said Alexander Townsend in the Books of the Company, by producing the probate of the said last Will and Testament of the said Alexander Townsend under the Seal of the said Prerogative Court of Canterbury bearing date the said 19th day of January 1838, And the Claim of the said William Colson to the said Share, numbered 154, is admitted accordingly.
Mr George Hawker attended on the part of Mary Anne Beale Widow, the Relict and Administratix of William Beale, formerly of Hyde Court in the parish of Minchinhampton in the county of Gloucester, but late of Bath in the county of Somerst Esquire deceased,- and made out his claim for four shared, numbered 193, 194,158 and 159, of the Undertaking of the Stroudwater Navigation, the property of the said William Beale, by producing Letters of Administration (with the Will and Codicil of the said William Beale beard Date respectively the 24th day of December 1839 annexed) granted to her the said Mary Ann Beale our of and under the Seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury dated the 18th day of June 1840 to administer the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said William Beale (the Testator not having in his said Will named any Executor or Residuary Legatee) and her Claim to the said four shares is hereby admitted.
That (as difficulties have sometimes been experienced in consequence of the great age of our late Clerk Mr George Hawker) in future it shall be regarded as a principle or rule, that no supposed claim or consideration of services, shall be considered as instituting a Clerk of this Company to be retained in his office, whenever age, or infirmity shall render him unable fully to perform the duties of it.
