[to visit Mr Cambridge] Order that the Chairman shall write to Mr Cambridge to Request him to sett a price to his land at per Acre about 5 Acres.
[Price of Lands fix'd] Resolved that Richd Owen Cambridge Esqr shall have for the Free Lands we are to Purchase of him Thirty Years Purchase ~~ and that a further alloance of two Years purchase be Paid him in Consideration of the Taxes, ~~ and that the Clerks be empowered to make the like offer to all Proprietors of Land thro which the Canal is to Pass.
Richard Owen Cambridge, Mrs Ann Morse and Richard Martin agree same terms.
£300 to be paid to Mr Cambridge in London bills to Mr King.
Wathen for Willm Wathen, Jno Billingly, Coney & Wilson: 900 Durley Wintle: 500 & for Charles Page: 200 Rich Hall: 100 Wm Seville Yong: 200 John Priddey: 100 John Butt: 500 William Turner: 100 Abram Walbank: 100 Rich Hall for Mrs Ann Harper: 200 George Sumner: 100 W. Bowyer: 100 Wm Sevill (Junr): 200 Thos Heart: 200 Wm Dallaway for Joseph Baddome: 300 Wm Dallaway for Susanna Dallaway: 100 Wm Dallaway for Nathl Clissold: 100 Abram Walbank for T F Clark: 100 Abram Walbank for Jams Dallaway: 200 Abram Walbank for Hannah Beale: 200 Abram Walbank for Wm Hopton: 100 J. Jones: 200 Robt Ellis: 100 Natl Jones: 100 Jno Cambridge: 200 Thos White: 700 T Arundell: 300 Benjn Grazebrook: 600 Richd Gabb: 100 Thomas Jones: 100 Wm Dallaway for Thos Gibson: 400 Wm Dallaway for Thos Bradbury Winter: 400 Jno (?)
Record of amount of waste water at Mr Cambridges Mill mill on 28th August 1175
1775 Dimensions of the Water Running to Waste on Sundays, at Mr Cooks and Mr Cambridges Mill Ponds Breadth of the Openings below the Gates at Mr Cambridges is 8 feet 10 Inches, Breadth of the Openings Above the Gates is 6 feet 2 Inches.
Names of Wittnesses to be procured Millmen: William Mayo ~~ will go, Mr Cooks Mill; William Beard ~~ the Oil Mill; One from Mr Cambridges Mill.
it is proposed to make them all 70 Feet long and 15 Feet wide in the Cham- ber, and as to their Depth, or rather Fall, the three upper Locks are to be five Feet two Inches Fall each, the rest between Ebiey-Mill and Mr. Cambridge’s, about nine Feet Fall each at an Average; and the Depth of the Lock at Framiload will be 19 Feet.
Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq: 77, 78, 79, 80, 83, 84, e85, k85, 86, a88, d88, h88, i88, l88, n88, q88, s88, y88, t88, &88, _b_88, _e_88, _g_88.
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.
Ordered that the General Utility be proved, and Application be made to Mr Cambridge, Mr Caple and Mr Yeoman for that purpose.
Mr Cambridge's opinion on the dangers of flooding being caused by the canal.
Mr Ascomans Says the Canal was begun according to his Survey with intent to join Mr Cambridge's Millpond.
Memd March 20th 1776, It was then agreed by Edward Hinton to make the Clay Dug out of the Canal lying on the Lands belonging to Richd Owen Cambridge Esqr and belonging to the Company of the Stroudwater Navigation into Brick, at and after the rate of Six shilling per Thousan to be told out of the Kiln well burnt and fit for use, but not to be answerable for any Damage to be done by Floods, the Company to find Coal and other necessarys for making the Brick and to pay for one Man telling the Brick from the said Kiln as Wittness my Hand Edward Hinton
Mr Cambridge asked about land around his mill pond if the canal crosses it.
No answer yet form Mr Cambridge in regard to the Value of his Land on the North side of the River.
Richard Owen Cambridge would not discuss his land north of his Mill Pond until a surveyor was appointed and his balance paid from land already purchased.
Mr Grazebrook reports that he have remitted to Mr Cambridge £127=0..7..6 being the Ballance ordered at the last Meeting, but no receipt yet recd for it.
A Receipt is Recd by our Clerk from Richd Owen Cambridge Esqr for the Monies advanced in full for the payment of his Land.
Joseph Wathen Five Shares Wm Knight two shares Thos Baylis Fourteen shares J Winchcombe five Shares Jno Hollings Two shares F Arundell 3 Shares D Wintle Three shares Thos White 7 Shares Timothy Lewis three Shares Robt Ellis one Share Richd Bigland Two Shares Anthy Keck one Share Benjn Grazebrook 7 Shares Jno Colborne five Shares Saml Shey four Shares John Butt five Shares Jas Croome Three Shares Humy Jefferys one Share John Cambridge two Shares Wm Wathen 2 Shares W Tombs two Sheares Wm Sevill two Sheares Wm Sevill Junr two Shares Rowles Scudamore one Share George Sumner one Share William Ellis one Share Rd Gabb one Share Wm Seville for Revd Mr Wight one Share William Turner one Share Thos Heart one Share Thomes James one Share John Morris one Share Francis Knight one Share Debh Pitt one Share Jno Allaway five Shares John Gardner ten Shares Henry Shephard one Share Thomas Cooper One Share Richd Aldridge five Shares Nathl Perkes two Shares Edmd Clutterbuck two Shares Edmd Clutterbuck for Danl Clutterbuck one Share Saml Whitmore 4 Shares Hannah Beale 2 Shares William Hopton 1 Share Frans Hawes One Share Frans Hawes for Eliz: Hawes One Share S Bowyer one Share J W W Jepson one Share Abrm Walbank one Share Chars Freebury one Share Anna Maria Rogers Two Shares Samuel Peach one Share S Peach for Mr Wm Bowyer one Share Thos B Winter Two Shares Thos Gibson two Shares Joshua Thomas One Share Thomas Hayes four Shares Christopher Chambers Eleven Shares Ricknell Coney for himself & Jno Wilson Two Shares Thomas Colborne Two Shares Saml Arundell Three Shares ?
B. Grazebrook to write to Richard Owen Cambridge to inform him the millard at his mill makes a charge upon every vessel that passes up his millpond, of which we understand, he is unaware.
The committee appointed Mr Thomas White and Benjamin Grazebrook inspectors and Mr John Cambridge and Joseph Grazebrook scrutineers for the present elections.
Clerk to write to R. Owen Cambridge to inform him that the millpond shall be deepened as soon as there is a scarcity of water.
Ben Grazebrook to begin bottoming in Mr Cambridge’s millpond.
Mr Cambridge recommended that the cloughs of Framilode Lock be drawn in cases of emergency to draw off the water.
Ordered that Mr B: Grazebrook do go by the Coach on Monday Even: next, to Richd Owen Cambridge Esqr in order to treat and agree with him for the Land necessary to make a new Cutt on the side of Whitmister Mill Pond.
Mr Grazebrook has obtained RO Cambridge’s consent to making a new cut on the side of Whitminster Mill Pond.
Our Clerk Reported that he hath applied to the several Owners of Land in Pool Field, in consequence of which he has Rece'd a Letter from Mr Cambridge expressing his approbation of the intended Drain and thanking the Committee for taking the same into consideration; the other Proprietors (except Mr Stock) agree with Mr Cambridge, and no answer is Yet Rece'd from Mr Stock on the Subject.
Mr Cambridge asked for a drain to be created in the lower part of the meadow called Thatchers to take off excess water from the canal.
Ordered that the Drain on Mr Cambridges Land be lett to some Person to make the same.
The Drain on Mr Cambridges Land is made agreeable to Mr Cambridges direction.
Benjamin Grazebrook reported that Mr Cambridge made an application to have the riens open to the canal and that he will be answerable for any inconvenience.
Our Clerk Reported that he hath wrote to Mr Cambridge respecting the Mud from the Rien Ditches, but no answer Yet Received.
No answer Yet Received from Mr Cambridge.
Receed a Letter from Mr Cambridge of the 25th July last, informing us that he will lay the proposal (respecting the Rien Ditches at Whitmister) before the other Persons concerned.
Reced a Letter from Mr Cambridge informing us that he hath appointed Mr Organ to manage his Business at Whitmister and desiring a Person may be sent to meet him on the Lands to consult the mutual advantage of the Canal & Meadows.
The clerk reported that Mr Organ on Mr Cambridge’s behalf has asked surrounding landowners to join with him in cleansing the mud from the canal if the rien ditch is opened.
No Letter Rece'd from Mr Cambridge respecting the Rien DItches at Whitmister.
No Letter Rece'd from Mr Cambridge.
No Letter Received from Mr Cambridge.
No Letter yet Rece'd from Mr Cambridge.
No Letter Yet Reced from Mr Cambridge.
No Lettter Yet Rece'd from Mr Cambridge.
Mr Organ attended the meeting on behalf of Richard Owen Cambridge and reported a leak from the canal at Whitminster which has damaged a meadow and Mr Cambridge expected the damage to be settled and likewise to have the rien ditch opened into the canal.
Richard Owen Cambridge has complained of damages caused by canal.
Messrs Bigland, Baylis, Allaway, Grazebrook and Clerk to take view of Mr Cambridge's damages.
Messrs Baylis and Grazebrook had met Mr Organ on Mr Cambridge's land and, on condition that the flood gates at Whitminster Mill are drawn at all flood times by the tenant occupying the mill, fixed with Mr Organ on behalf of Mr Cambridge, that the rien ditch, called Thatcher's Ditch, may run into canal for one year by way of trial, Company making a catch pool to receive the mud.
Mr Phillomore had come to no agreement with Mr King respecting Mr Cambridge's land.
Mary Cambridge claimed shares nos.144,145, will of John Cambridge.
Copies of orders made concerning Mr Samuel King's damages given to Mr Cambridge at his request.
Mr Cambridge willing for Company to appoint person to re-examine damages of Thatcher’s with Mr King.
Committee willing to pay £35 damages provided no further claims made by Mr Cambridge or his tenants on that account.
Mr Cambridge agreed with proposal re damages.
Letter from Richard Owen Cambridge Esq, requesting repair of long wooden weir erected by Company for use of mill pond.
Mr Richard Owen Cambridge conceives he has legal claims on Company to keep in repair weir erected by them on banks of his mill pond.
Controversy with Mr Cambridge respecting weir at Whitminster Mill.
