Thinks Kemmett’s Orchard best place for canal entrance.
Mr Kemmett’s house and barn bought for £150.
Benjamin Grazebrook reported that the soil at Kemmett’s Orchard appeared to be appropriate for bricks.
Mr Priddey to set out the lower lock in Kemmett’s Orchard and to employ proper hands to dig out the same in order to finally determine the propriety of placing the first lock next to the Severn at that place.
~~ [a Quarry to be engaged] Ordered that a Quarry be engaged and the Digging of Stone Contracted for from Hampton Quarry.~~ [Stone to be hall'd] Ordered that Mr Hall and Mr Grazebrook gett the Stone from the Forest to Newnham at the best rate they can immediately .~~ [Mr Colborne to Draw up Deeds for Kemmetts and Mr Farmers Lands] Ordered that Mr Colborne draws the Deeds for Kemmetts and Mr Farmers Land to be conveyed to Mr Rich.
~~~ [money to be paid for Lands] Ordered that Mr Colborne issues money and pays the Purchase Money for Kemmetts Orchard, as well as Mr Farmers Property.
[Mr Organ employed] Ordered that Mr Organ be employed as a Day Accomptant and as a Cheque to the Cutters A/c.~~~ [to write to Mr Kemmett] Ordered that Mr Kemmett be wrote to by Mr Colborne to Appoint a time and place finally to settle the Buissness with him.~~~ [Mr Priddys bills to be paid] Ordered that Mr Priddys Bills of Survey prior to his Engagement as a Surveyor to be paid.~~~ [Mr Dadford to be paid] Ordered that Mr Dadford be paid 4£-4s-0 for his Second Survey.
Read a Letter from Mr Joseph Everatt of Gloucester concerning Mr Kemmetts Land.~~~ [Mr Colborne to pay Mr Everatt] Mr Colborne do pay Mr Everatt of Gloucester, the Principal 100£ the Interest 34£-10s and to Mr Kemmett the remainder to make up the 150£ the Purchase Money, Executing a proper Assignment of the Premises to Mr Rich'd Aldridge .~~~ [to pay Mr Farmer] Ordered that Mr Samuel Farmer of Gloucester shall be paid for his Land and Timber as soon as Mr Colborne as cash.
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.
It was resolved that evidence should be found that when there is short water in the River Stroud (Frome) there is short water in the River Severn and no vessel can navigate upon it and to prove that the state of the weirs at every mill and to show that Mr Stephens estate is not injured by Kemmetts Navigation.
Mr Stephens land being cut by Mr Kemmett was of great service to the mills in preventing frequent flooding, which stopped the mills.
Than Mr Stephen's Land being Cutt by Mr Kemmett was a great Service to the Mills in preventing frequent Floods which Stopt the Mills.
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.
He is certain the above Lands are more in value and the better since the River has been made Strait by Kemmetts Cut.
Agreed to Purchase Mrs Wildings House at 60£ being the Sum Mr Kemmett Offerd it at on Her Acct provided She make a good Title, and put the Company in Possession of the same.
Benjamin Grazebrook found Mr Kemmett’s oak timber to be suitable for use.
Some of Mr Kemmetts timber also unsuitable: cannot give more than 1s 2d per foot for good planks.
Ordered that Mr Ralph Sherward be desired to go to Deerhurst to Measure Mr Kemmetts Timber and send the account of it to Mr B: Grazebrook.
Ordered that Mr Baylis be desired to write to Mr Kemmett.
Mr Baylis has wrote to Mr Kemmett, but no answer yet Reced.
Mr Kemmett attended some of the committee and made a proposal to superintend the whole of the works till complete for 200 guineas.
Mr Kemmett to be made an offer of ten guineas for his attendance.
Our Clerk produced an Account of Mr John Kemmetts, the Consideration of which is deferr'd to a future Meeting.
Deffered the consideration of Mr John Kemmetts Accout to a future Meeting.
Mr Jno Kemmetts Account deffered to a future Day.
The corner of Kemmett’s Orchard next to Framilode Lock be secured by piles and stones behind the piles.
