Mr Nathaniel Peach to make contact with the members for Bristol, Joseph Martin, Sam Blackchurch, James Whitchard and Sir William Guise.
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.
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 ?
Ordered that Messrs Winchcombe, Wathen, & Grazebrook be desired to Waite on Nathaniel Peach Esqr to consult with him respecting the proposed Bridge.
Mr King has delivered his account of the Damages in the Brick Yard on Mr Peaches Land, amounting to £10..4 reckoned from one Year past, and for two Years to come.
Mr King's Account of Damages on Mrs Peach's Land to be considered.
Ordered that our Clerk do wait on Mr Peach and fix a Day with him to receive the money for the purchase of his Land.
Reced a Letter from Mr Pyke desiring to fix a day for settling with him for Mr Peach's Land.
Stroud 21st August 1779 We whose names are hereunto subscribed being Commissioners appointed and nominated in and by an Act of Parliament passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of His majesty King George the Third, Intituled "An Act to amend an Act passed in the third year of his late Majesty's reign 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 for giving other powers for the purpose of making a navigation from Framiload to Wallbridge" aforesaid being mett at the dwelling house of William Turner known by the George Inn in the town of Stroud aforesaid in pursuance of an advertisement in the Gloucester Journal of the 10th Instant and an order made for that purpose and signed by seven commissioners on the 6th of this instant in order to put in execution the powers and authorities vested in us by virtue of the said Act and having taken and subscribed the oath presented by the said powers an authorities do come to the following resolutions viz: We do order that the bridge now erected over the canal on the road leading from Gloucester to Bristol at a place near Wheatenhurst shall serve as a communication between all the land of Nathaniel Peach Esq on the lower side of the canal and that We do adjudge no other bridge to be necessary.
Reced two Letters from Mr Samuel Peach relative to settling matters relative to his Land at Whitmister.
Our Clerk produced a Rent Book of the Lands belonging to the Co. No answer Yet Reced from Mr Peach.
Our Clerk Reported that Mr Peach proposes to leave the Settlement of a Compensation in lieu of a Bridge on his Land, to two indifferent People as Arbitration.
Our Clerk Reported that he hath wrote to Mr Peach agreeable to the order of last Meeting.
Our Clerk hath wrote to Mr Peach agreeable to the Order of last Meeting but no answer Rece'd.
Rece'd a Letter from Mr Peach aquainting us that he shall soon be at Rooksmore, and wishes to be inform'd when it will be most convenient to talk over his affair with the Company.
Mr Peach attended the Committee but nothing decisive was settled.
Mr Hollings Reported that Mr Peach proposed to accept of Sixty Guineas in lieu of a Bridge at Whitmister.
Our Clerk Reported that he hath wrote to Mr Peach agreeable to the order of last Meeting.
Samuel Webb's garden next to Mr Watt's mill to be included in his contract Hyde & Court, contract for timber Edward Edge, contract for three stone locks William Dennis, contract for two stone locks James Stansfield, contract for two stone locks Thomas Cook, contract Grazebrook, senior and junior, their accounts allowed Contracts for timber Mr Capel and the Company's Engineer to settle with Mr Peach relative to the removal of his racks.
Samuel C Peach and William Gainsford Peach claimed six shares, will of Nathaniel Peach.
Peach, agreement with for mill, houses and lands for £650.
