Hawker 6 Shares 600 Jos Wathen Five Shares 500 Richd Aldridge 4 Shares 400 J Winchcombe five Shares 500 Thos Baylis Eight Shares 800 Jno Hollings two shares 200 Benj Grazebrook six shares 600 Friam Anrundell Three Shares 300 Peregrine Arundel Two Shares 200 Rich Hawker & Son Five Shares 500 John Butt five shears 500 Tho: White Seven Shares 700 Jno Colborne three Shares 300 Thos Heart three shares 300 Willm Capel two Shares 200 Wm Smith two Shares 200 Jas Croome three Shares 300 Wm Wathen two Shares 200 Richd Bigland two Shares 200 Natl Jones One Share 100 Francis Knight one Share 100 Thomas James one Share 100 Anna Haynes one Share 100 Durley Wintle Five Shares 500 Willm Ellis one Share 100 Jas Dallaway Two Shares 200 Willm Hopton one Share 100 Hester Poglor one Share 100 John Gardner Ten Shares 1000 Benjn Fisher one Share 100 William Tombs one Share 100 Edwd Clutterbuck two Shares 200 Edwd Clutterbuck for Daccive Clutterbuck one Share 100 Edwd Clutterbuck for Hathe Porky two Shares 200 John Allaway five Shares 500 Charles Pugh two Shares 200 Timothy Lewis one Share 100 Timothy Lewis One Share for his Son Bathurst Lewis 100 Timothy Lewis One Share for his Son George Lewis 100 Richd Gabb one Share 100 Gorge Sumner one Share 100 Rowles Scudamore one Share 100 Chas Freebury one Share 100 Richd Gabb one Share 100 Gorge Sumner one Share 100 Rowles Scudamore one Share 100 Chas Freebury one Share 100 Robt Ellis one Share 100 Henry Shephard one Share 100 John Peach one share 100 Joshua Thomas one Share 100 Wm Sevill Senr two Shares 200 Wm Sevill for John Wright Clk one Share 100 Wm Sevill Junr two Shares 200 Anthy Keck one Share 100 Sam Baylis Three Shares 300 John Cambridge two Shares 200 William Turner one Share 100 Saml Jones two Shares 200 Saml Arundell three Shares 300 James Sheppard Two Shares 200 Samuel Peach one share 100 S Bowyer one share 100 Abel Grey two Shares 200 Thos Gibson four Shares 400 Thos B Winter four Shares 400 Bick Coney for Self & J Wilson five Shares 500 Elizth Hawes (Junr): one Share 100 S Bowyer for Wm Bowyer one Share 100 Frank Hawes one Share 100 Thomas Colborne two Shares 200 John Priddey one Share 100 Saml Shey two Shares 200 John Bennett two Shares 200 Joseph Beddome two Shares 200 Joseph Beddome one share for his Daughter Rebecca Ann 100 Susanna Dallaway one share 100 Nathl Clissold one share for his Daughter Elizabeth 100 John Clissold two Shares 200 Jos.
[to Apply to Mr Kemmett] Resolved that Mr Thomas Baylis do propose to Mr Kemmett to give him the same Price for his Orchard the Tenement and Barn that he gave for it.~~~ Resolved the Lower Lock which is in Tides way shall be Built on a Timber Frame agreeable to Mr Jones Modell.~~~ [Sise of the Lower Lock] resolved that the Breath of the Lower Lock shall be only Fifteen Feet two Inches Wide because the present Canal of 42 Feet will not admit of two wider Vessels to pass each other.~~~ [to purchase Mrs Wildings house] Resolved to Buy Mrs Wildings House and that Mr Kemmett be Apply'd to , to treat for it.~~~ [to treat with Mr Priddey] Resolved to treat with Mr Preedy about his being Chief Surveyor.
John Priddey appointed chief engineer and surveyor at £100 a year.
Mr Priddey to send pattern tools to Droitwich.
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.
I am going home to day & hope you will forward the work as much as possible till I return, I am with thespects to Mrs Glazebrook your humble Sevnt John Priddey
Ordered a large quantity of barrows and Mr Priddey to engage carpenters and masons for the lock work.
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 (?)
Ordered that Mr Grazebrook do write to Mr Priddey to come down.
Resolved that Mr Jepson and Joseph Grazebrook are to make the previous Application to the owners and Occupiers of Lands, for their Assent to the proposed Canal or Navigtion, Distinguishing which of them on such Application have Assented to, or Dissented from the said Canal or Navigation, or are Neuter in respect thereto, ~~ and that Mr Yeoman and Mr Priddey make an Estimate of the proposed expence of the undertaking Signed by them ~~ and that Mr Colborne make out an Account of the Money Subscribed, and the Names of the Subscribers with the Sums respectively Subscribed by them, and also that Mr Hall is to Send Mr Lewis the Schedule of Lands, etc, to be printed by Mr Rudder, which he is to send by next Friday's Coach.
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, under their Hands and Seals nominate and appoint William Dallaway, William Knight, George Hawker, Joseph Wathen, Richard Aldridge, James Winchcombe, Thomas Baylis, John Hollings, and Benjamin Grazebrook, being some of the Subscribers to the said Article, to be Undertakers for making such Navigation, in the Manner intended by, and under, and subject to, the Conditions, Privileges, Damages, Tolls, Restrictions, and Agreements, in the said first-mentioned Act for that Purpose, and gave, granted, and conveyed unto the said Undertakers, their Heirs, Assigns, and Nominees, all the Powers, Authorities, Rights, Profits, Privileges, and Interests, together with all Lands, Engines, and Machines, purchased and erected by any of the Undertakers thentofore nominated by virtue of the said former Acts, or either of them, and then vested in the said Commissioners: And whereas the Undertakers last appointed, together with the other Subscribers to the said Article of the Eighth Day of December, One thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, have begun a Cut from the said River Severn, near Framiload, with Intent to join the said River Stroudwater, in the Mill Pond of Richard Owen Cambridge Esquire, and have already made Calls upon the several Subscribers to the said Two hundred Sharers, for the Sum of Twenty-five Pounds on each Share, amounting in the Whole to the Sum of Five thousand Pounds, a considerable Part whereof has been expended towards making the said Cut, and in the Purchase of Lands, and in necessary Works relating thereto: And whereas it appears, that continuing the Works for the Navigation authorised to be made by the said first-mentioned Act, in Manner therein prescribed, will be attended with many Difficulties, and be liable to many Obstructions: And whereas, if a proper and convenient Navigation was made from the said River Severn, at or near Framiload, to Wallbridge aforesaid, the same would greatly tend to the Encouragement and Encrease of the Woollen Manufactory already carried on in that Neighbourhood to a very considerable Degree, and would be beneficial to Trade and Commerce: And whereas the said Undertakers and other Proprietors of Shares are wiling and desirous, at their own further proper Costs and Charges, to make and maintain such Navigation; but as the same cannot be effectually carried into Execution without the further Aid of Parliament; may it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assemble, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the passing of this Act, the said Right Honourable the Lord Ducie, Sir Onesiphorus Paul Baronet, William Dallaway, William Dallaway for his Daughter Elizabeth, William Dallaway for his Daughter Rebecca Catherine, William Knight, George Hawker, Joseph Wathen, Richard Aldridge, James Winchcombe, Thomas Baylis, John Hollings, Benjamin Grazebrook, Fream Arundell, Thomas Crozier Arundell, Richard Hawker and Son, John Butt, Thomas White, John Colborne, Thomas Heart, William Capel, William Smith, James Croome, William Wathen, Richard Bigland, Nathaniel Jones, Francis Knight, Thomas James, Richard Gabb, George Summer, Rowles Scudamore, Charles Freebury, Robert Ellis, James Dallaway, William Hopton, Hester Pegler, John Gardner, Benjamin Fisher, William Tombs, Edmund Clutterbuck, Daniel Clutterbuck, Nathaniel Perks, John Allaway, Charles Page, Timothy Lewis, Bathurst Lewis Son of Timothy Lewis, George Son of Timothy Lewis, John Peach, Joshua Thomas, William Sevill, John Wight, William Sevill junior, Anthony Keck, Samuel Baylis, John Cambridge, William Turner, Samuel Jones, Samuel Arundell, Jane Sheppard, Samuel Peach, Samuel Bowyer, Abel Grey, Thomas Gibson, Thomas Bradbury Winter, Bicknel Coney, and John Wilson, Elizabeth Hawes, William Bowyer, Francis Hawes, Thomas Colborne, John Priddey, Samual Skey, John Kemmett, Joseph Beddome, Rebecca Ann Daughter of Joseph Beddome, Susanna Dallaway, Elizabeth Clissold Daughter of Nathaniel Clissold, John Clissold, John Billingsley, Richard Hall, William Tombs, John Mills, Hannah Beale, Abraham Wallbank, Samuel Wallbank, Joseph Cripps Son of Joseph Cripps, Edward Cripps Son of Joseph Cripps, Samuel Vines, and John Dauncey, and their respective Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, are and shall be united into a Company for the better carrying on, making, compleating, and maintaining the said Navigation, for the Passage of Boats, Barges, Lighters, and other Vessels, from the River Severn, at or near Framiload, to Wallbridge, near the Town of Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, and shall for the Purpose be One Body Politick and Corporate by the Name of the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation, and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession, and a Common Seal, and by that Name shall and may sue and be sued, and also shall and may have Power and Authority to purchase Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, for the Use of the said Navigation, without incurring any of the Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statues of Mortmain, or any of them, and also to sell any Lands or Tenements purchased for the Use of the said Navigation; and any Person or Persons, or Bodies Politick or Corporate, may give, grant, bargain, sell, or convey, to the said Company of Proprietors, any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, for the Use and Benefit of the said Navigation, without Licence of Alienation in Mortmain.
Ordered Mr Priddey to be Paid Sixty three Pounds and four Shillings, upon his giving a Discharge of all Contracts and Accounts.
Mr Grazebrook ordered to pay John Priddey the balance owing him.
Mr Priddey given ¼ of a year notice of dismissal.
The Notice of discharge, from the Companys Service, was delivered to Mr Priddey by the Committee, before the Clerk, and accepted by him/ A Meeting of the Commissioners (called by advice of Mr Lane) on this day for them to Qualify themselves and advertize a Meeting to Value the Lands.
John Priddey to be paid £76 for his work on canal.
Mr Grazebrook Reported that he had paid Mr John Priddey his bill.
Mr Priddey to receive 5 guineas for surveys during junction of Thames & Severn Canal.
