Wm Dallaway for himself & for his two Daughters: £300 Edmd Clutterbuck: 200 Edmd Clutterbuck for Nath l Perks: 200 Edmd Clutterbuck for Danl Clutterbuck: 100 Thos Baylis, & for Mr John Gardner: 1000, 1000 J Winchcombe: 500 J Winchcombe for Jo Cripps: 200 S Bowyer: 100 & for Saml Peach: 100 Thomas Crozier Arundell: 200 Timothy Lewis: 100 Timothy Lewis for Bathurst (F) Lewis: 100 Timothy Lewis for George (E )Lewis: 100 John Kemmett: 200 Jos.
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.
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul Bart., Joseph Wathen, John Hollings, James Dallaway, Joseph Cripps,Nathaniel Winchcombe, Fream Arundell, John Colborne, William Battersby, Thomas Crozier Arundell, Joseph Harford, Richard Bigland, John Allaway, Benjamin Grazebrook.
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul, Nathaniel Winchcombe, Joseph Cripps, James Dallaway, Richard bigland, John Colborne, John Hollings William Battersby, Joseph Harford, Thomas C Arundell, Henry Burgh, Benjamin Grazebrook.
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul, Nathaniel Winchcombe, Joseph Cripps, Edward harford, Richard Bigland, John Allaway, John Colborne, John Hollings, William Battersby, Joseph Harford, Henry Burgh, Benjamin Grazebrook, Thomas C Arundell.
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul, Edward Harford, John Allaway,Nathaniel Winchcombe, Richard Bigland, John Colborne, John Hollings, William Battersby, Joseph Harford, Henry Burgh, Benjamin Grazebrook, Joseph Cripps, Joseph Grazebrook.
Tespasses to be settled with Elizabeth Fitcher, James Habgood, John Lutten and Elizabeth Pratt William Stephenson written to respecting payment of Lord Bathurst R Adamson to send his accounts to Clerk Agreed to confer with J & E Cripps re damage to his mill Letter to Thames Commissioners expressing concern about rumoured new plan for improvement James Perry to examine land and plan reservoirs on the Dagleworth and Churn Lord Bathurst applications to him for Jenner's Mill water and forming a reservoir Josiah Clowes to examine and report on tunnel and summit levels Kempsford Bridge arch to be raised if necessary Banks between Cerney lower lock and Wilmorway to be raised Feeder below Welford mill to be staked out.
Committee for the next year: Sir George Paul, Nathaniel Winchcombe, Edward Harford, Richard Bigland, John Colborne, John Hollings, William Battersby, Joseph Harford, Henry Burgh, Benjamin Grazebrook, Joseph Cripps, Joseph Grazebrook.
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul, Nathaniel Winchcombe, Edward Harford, Richard Bigland, John Allaway, John Colborne, John Hollings, William Battersby, Joseph Harford, Henry Burgh, Benjamin Grazebrook, Joseph Cripps, Joseph Grazebrook.
Joseph Cripps, orders respecting his claims for his mill Samuel Smith to continue as first clerk and reside on the line of the canal and to view the whole as often as convenient.
Mortgages issued Bristol crane to be ordered for the warehouses at Brimscombe Benjamin Haynes to make a crane for the wharf at Cirencester Bridge to be erected from wharf to warehouses at Brimscombe Samuel Smith to pay millers for damages Agreed newspaper advertsement that canal was open for business Agreed handbill giving tonnage and freight rates for grain between Cirencester and Bristol Agreed prices for Staffordshire coals at Cirencester and Cricklade Mr Chalie and Mr Chmbers to be indemnified in their coal account if any fluctuations in prices John Smith (brother of Samuel) to be wharfinger at Cricklade in place of William Saunders, discharged Joseph Cripps, claim for damage to his mill to be considered
Thomas Toward to be tender of the fire-engine - conditions given John Pierce to engage miners to sink the engine pit Joseph Cripps, suggested arbitration on his claims Purchase money of Siddington glebe invested
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul, Nathaniel Winchcombe, Edward Harford, John Allaway, John Hollings, William Battersby, Joseph Harford, Henry Burgh, Benjamin Grazebrook, Richard Pettat, Richard Bigland, Joseph Grazebrook, Joseph Cripps.
Brimscombe grist mill and the dwelling house and chamber over it together with the stable next the gate to be let to a proper tenant at a rent of £40 pa Joseph Cripps to be settled with for water damage to his mill
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Prorpietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held this Ninth day of Octor 1792 at the George Inn in Stroud Josh Cripps Esqr in the Chair.
Sir George Paul, Mr Hollings, Mr Cripps, Mr Bigland, Mr Burgh to meet managers of Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Bills to see that clauses be introduced into the Act of Parliament.
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul, John Hollings, Joseph Cripps, Henry Burgh, John Allaway, Richard.
Committee for next year: Sir George Paul, Joseph Cripps, John Allaway, Benjamin Grazebrook, Samuel Wathen, William Battersby, New House, William Battersby, Joseph Harford, Charles Freebury, Rev William Ellis, Josiah Isles Wathen, Edward Harford, Samuel Smith.
Committee for next year: William Battersby, Samuel Wathen, Joseph Harford, Benjamin Grazebrook, Rowles Scudamore, Joseph Grazebrook, Edward Harford, Rev William Ellis, Sir Geo Paul, Samuel Smith, Joseph Cripps, Joseph Wathen, Nathaniel Wathen.
