1872-1876
Gloucestershire Archives D1180/9/4
Letters written by William James Snape between June 1872 and February 1876
Cheque required for tonnage now due.
Pass to Lock Keepers and other workmen to allow Mr J R Haviland and one friend to fish (angle only) in the canal until Dec 1874.
Cheque required for tonnage now due.
Cheque required for tonnage now due.
Cheque required for tonnage now due.
Cheque required for tonnage now due.
Corrected account of your tonnage enclosed Cheque in payment required; also cheque required for the rent and repairs to weighing machine.
Sheep washing in the canal - reply to my letter no. 287.
Collect Ready Penny from Dudbridge. Charge 10s for coming up empty and returning empty.
Please send me Income tax form No. 11.13.
Please write to me stating that you are willing to pay for water from the canal.
I hope you can reply to my letter of the 14th ult before our committee meeting on the 21st inst.
Sorry about the misfortune with your warehouse. Can we be of help? Please use Bristol Road wharf. Please keep the cloth Fallows lent you for your wheat.
Please look at the roof of the lock keepers cottage at Dudbridge, its letting in rain.
Let me have a copy ticket for Miles & Wood Helen or Ellen as they have lost it.
Let me have a cheque for the tonnage - I have to make the books up.
Let me have a cheque for the tonnage - I have to make the books up.
Re the late Mr W Brittan: I shall call on your on the 24th inst with copies of the required forms. Next Board meeting is on the 17 September. Note: Please get a certificate of Mr Brittan's burial and also the old ticket no. 164.
Let me have a cheque for particulars specified below. Also a receipt for the drawback.
The next committee meeting is on the 17 September.
Bill from Monger & Stout enclosed. Get me a list of work done since Aug 1872 until the time the boat goes down. Let me have cost of the Lodgemore new bridge in detail.
Copies of the half yearly statements enclosed - let me know the amount I have to fill in on the form.
For the 5th time let me have payment of your account or the matter will go to our solicitors.
The probate is not enclosed as you state it was, only the authority for me to claim on your behalf.
Your letter and probate received. Certain procedures as set out need to be complied with.
The last shares sold for £90.
Enclosed probate of will of the late W Brittan, also new certificate for Share No. 164
Explanation of the charge made for transferring shares as per the Canal Act.
I have taken an exact copy of the report which I return.
I am so busy with half year's meeting, I have passed your business to our solicitor, Mr W W Kearsey, who will write to you with full particulars re the executors claim..
I enclose the probate as required.
I cannot pay dividend to you as share nos. 78 and 86 are not in your name alone. Send me the papers and I will make out new tickets, endorse the probate and return them to you.
Let me have a reply to my letter of the 14 July. Note: Our next meeting is on the 22nd inst.
You do not need to remove your stone off Wallbridge Wharf as all the land belongs to this Company.
The Board authorised me to make the alterations you require and enclose the probate. There is a charge for registering the two shares.
Let me have a receipt for the enclosed cheque in settlement of your account.
You can lay the pipe as requested from the canal to your engine boilers at an annual charge payable half yearly from 29 September last. I shall call on you in a few days.
Last shares sold for £90. I think I could get that for any you wish to dispose of.
I can draw cheques only at Board meetings. I will draw the one in question at the next meeting on the 19 November next.
I have taken a true copy of the enclosed original report of the Thames & Severn Canal Co for half year ending 7 October 1874.
Have received notification of a postal order to the value of 10s but have not received the actual 10s..
Special forms required for transfer of share nos 92 and 191. Please communicate with Mr Kearsey, the Company's Solicitor.
Mr Kearsey, the Company's solicitor, is dealing with Lovegrove & Bryan re share nos. 92 and 191. Mr Hearne's death was not known when I sent the Dividend warrant, which please return to me and I will forward another when the matter is sorted.
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The Stroudwater Navigation shares have been selling at £90 per share for some time.
Share no. 134 has changed hands, new owners named; and I shall require an Authority if the Dividend is to be paid to you.
Our solicitor, Mr Kearsey, will contact you about the probate of the will of the late Mrs Jacomb.
Re my letter of 10 August. Ready Penny drifting in the canal. If not removed at once, she will be disposed of as we are empowered by the Canal Act of Parliament.
You are not to give information to any one about any person's traffic. Who brings William's way bills to you when you make out tickets for his barges.
Enclosed copy of the Resolution that no vessel be allowed to pass to The Junction without a ticket issued from Wallbridge office. Stroud Brewery Co have consented to pay an annual amount to use the canal from Saul Bridge to Clark's House.
Stroud Brewery Co have permission to use the canal from Saul Bridge to Clark's House. Note in pencil: not to use the locks..
Cheque enclosed re Tithe Rent.
Instructions re watering places at Framilode; Mr William's right to take water; written report required about any vessels which were detained today.
Send Mr Eycott the old ticket for share no.135 to enable new ones to be made out.
Instructions re Mr Fallows' wages; not to take notice of anyone else, but to carry out Mr Snape's instructions; serve a Notice on Mrs Lewis plus the wording to endorse the Notice, find out her first name and insert it in the Notice.
Salary cheque enclosed.
Probate of the Will of the late Mrs Jacomb and also new ticket enclosed. Complete enclosed form to enable me to send the last half year's dividend. The transfer fee will be 5s.
Permission plus conditions re putting a flag stone on the towing path near his doorway.
Instructions: collect payment from Mr Field of his account; pay wages out of it; before the next meeting let me have the depth of water (from weir level) on every top sill of every lock on the Canal; do not break ice if there is no trade; you are breaking to Framilode today with one barge to release.
Thank you for the 5s transfer fee. Instructions on how the share can be put in the name of The Rev. J Wood and the requirement to get the papers placed before the next meeting on 21 January 1875.
Instructions: Field's ticket for last month required; enclosed monthly cash return correct.
Received your letter and share certificate. My previous instructions were wrong: Mr Kearsey the Company's solicitor, will communicate with you.
Instructions: a gate to be made for the stone pen occupied by Sutton at Wallbridge Wharf; talk to Peter Daniels about him getting a horse to break up ice contrary to orders; Webb's enclosed bill not to be altered but 2 pieces sent back and 2 new ones instead without the slabs.
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Instructions from the Committee of Management as a result of the Thames & Severn Canal Co's letter of 25 Nov being brought before the last meeting concerning: tonnages of coals passing between the two canals.
Continuation of Instructions from the Committee of Management as a result of the Thames & Severn Canal Co's letter of 25 Nov being brought before the last meeting concerning: tonnages of traffic other than coal passing between the two canals.
Continuation of Instructions from the Committee of Management as a result of the Thames & Severn Canal Co's letter of 25 Nov being brought before the last meeting concerning: the Thames & Severn Canal Co's complaint about impeding the right of passage through Wallbridge Wharf, with reference to the agreement of the 30 July 1783 and Section 65 of the Thames & Severn Canal Co's Act
Continuation of instructions: the final salutation.
Instructions: the mud boat to take a few loads between Mr Marling's swing bridge and the next towards Ebley as a result of The Effort, the Ceres, the Rose Ann and one of Mr George Hayle's boats being detained; piling required between Dudbridge and double locks and opposite to Ford's saw mills; see Fords re a rail in the fence near their works..
Would like to see you tomorrow at noon re the warehouse next to the Ocean.
The pine ordered from you no longer required.
Instructions: send the 'knife' up; see what can be done to accommodation Mr Jas William's wish to enlarge his pen a little, the fence of Mr Godsell's pen would have to be taken further up the wharf; examine the lane over Bristol Road bridge as I have had a complaint as to its state; make a list of the stores you require and I will go through it with you when you come up.
Instructions: In future I need to know whether vessels coming up from Bristol such as Knee's 'Annie' with beer? and Ford Brother's with wines, groceries and spirits, are carrying cargoes in their cabins which are not entered on the waybills, no charge made at present; do not clear out Mr Lewis' boats or any other unloading coal at Bristol Road unless they have a memo from J Williams as to the number of tons put out; I shall be down your way soon to discuss these matters; thank you for your letter re Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co's charges.
I cannot made deductions from accounts, so please let me have a cheque to make up the full account for tonnage.
Instructions: specify on your ticket the number of carboys in any vessel brought onto the canal; put Benzoline separate as we are going to charge: there will be alterations on goods from Bristol - in the mean time let me have the charges Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co make for carboys, dyewood? and Benzoline.
Cheque for tonnage account for last quarter required.
Cheque enclosed in settlement of account for stone.
A charge per annum is to be made for you keeping your cart on the Company's wharf. Also, you are not to deposit your ashes on the manure heap in the Wharf.
At today's board meeting it was agreed that a deputation should wait on the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co's committee as to their canal charges. Can you let me have any information respecting rates etc and Mr Lucy's reply.
Talk to Captain of Knee's barge no. 3 re complaint from Mr Stanton - details set out. Desist or Mr Stanton will summons him.
Drain from closet at Dudbridge Wharf must not be put in.
The Committee cannot allow you to make a dipping place as requested.
All converted timber entering on to the canal to be charged at dead weight from today.
Remove your timber near the crane on Dudbridge Wharf or you will be charged: rate set out.
Half year dividend warrant enclosed in favour of Reverend John Wood.
Remove your timber from Stonehouse Wharf or you will be charged wharfage.
Our canal being in very bad state from want of dredging, upon what terms would your company hire out their dredger for 2 or 3 months.
Unless you move your oak timber from Stonehouse Wharf you will be charged wharfage.
Terms set out for allowing a drain under the towing path to carry rain water. If not agreeable you are requested to remove the pipe or the Company will remove it.
Please check that the weight given on Annie's ticket no. 574 is correct.
Enclosed a memo from Hooper & Co re the pipe they are to put into the Canal. Please see them before you come up tomorrow when we'll talk this over.
Instructions on W J Snape's expenses to be put into next pay sheet re three journeys to Gloucester in connection with G&B Canal tonnages.
Either I will collect all tickets you have on Saturday, or, if not, send them by post. Let me know if there are any alterations in respect of tonnages on G&B Canal on traffic up to Stoudwater Canal.
Copy of Resolution passed at last Committee meeting set out below re shrubs etc on slope on offside canal near Ryeford Mills.
Please call at Davies & Sons because I have not had their letter agreeing to the rate for taking water from the canal at Stonehouse for their engine boilers. Instructions and information about having written to Perry re cutting of timber for the roofs of new cottages at Dudbridge; not proceeding with the bridge until May, sending up some broken stone, and the amount of Field's account.
Instructions to look at Cottages occupied by Clark & Copner, get out the timber required for a new roof and the lathes, send in the bill. You do the roof timber and the lathes, another man will do the slating. I shall not proceed with the Bridge until May.
Pass addressed to lock keepers and workmen giving permission for Mr R Haviland and one friend to fish (angle) in the Canal during 1875.
Complaints re state of canal between The Junction and Whitminster Lock. Please attend to the dredging.
Details of the charge per ton for wheat from Stonehouse Ocean to Bristol Road and flour from Bristol Road to Stonehouse Ocean and the number of sacks per ton.
The Elizabeth belonging to Mr Bowley was delayed on the T&S Canal because of shortage of water in the short pound. The lock keeper was rude to Captain W Smith's wife and told her 'to go back and tell Mr Snape to mind his own business'. Why was the trade stopped without reasonable cause.
Only I have the authority to order anything for this Company, do not send anything to the order of Mr Fallows.
Only I have the authority to order anything for this Company, do not send anything to the order of Mr Fallows.
Please complete and return the enclosed form. The last dividend warrant was sent to Mr Cooke.
Instructions re one pipe being put in at Stonehouse by Davies & Sons; Hamer can erect a stable at Framilode plus a manure heap on payment terms as set out, the erection to be creditable to the Co.
Letter of permission to erect a stable near warehouse at Framilode, see Mr Fallows re terms.
Letter re condition of T&S Canal - first part illegible, setting out condition of Gough's Orchard Lock, Beal's Lock. Continued ..
Continuation of 379: Ballinger's Lock, Chapel Lock, Bell Lock, Golden Valley Lock. Continued …
Continuation of 380: Bolting Lock, Baker's Mill Lock, Lock top of Reservoir, Puck Mill Lock. The Locks above to the Top or Summit Lock. Continued ..
Continuation of 381: the Summit Lock, the Cirencester Branch, the Basin, the entirety of the canal from Chalford.
Information re decrease in tonnage charge for flour from Chalford.
Your drain in field near Westfield Bridge draining into canal. Put it in order or the Company will charge for any damage that may arise..
In reply to Taunton's letter of 29 January, enclosed memorandum of some of causes of complaints re the state of the canal - not binding but an exhaustive statement in justification of my letter to your Chairman of 14 Nov 1874. Signed by G H A Beard (not Mr Snape).
Your letter received today will have my immediate attention.
Setting out the rates for Mr Godsell's traffic from The Junction to Bristol Road, Bristol Road to Stonehouse, direct from The Junction to Stonehouse and vice versa. Enclosed a cheque for one quarter's salary due 25 March 1875.
I left a cargo of coal out of your bill. The account for the bricks is correct.
You can try your dredger on any portion of the Stroudwater Navigation.
Receipt enclosed for amount paid; payment for balance required as per Committee's decision.
Cheque enclosed in settlement of account.
Fined for drawing up the top paddles at Bristol Road Lock with the bottom gates open; a summons will be taken out if not paid on demand.
Give the enclosed and read it out to Joseph Butt, working with the Barge Annie. Have you received instructions re vessels unloading on our water at the Junction.
Enclosed extract of Mr Godsell's letter placed before my committee yesterday. We understood that the full tonnage would not in future be asked for from your Company. Have you instructed Mr Peyton? Written in pencil in brackets: see extract herein mentioned in letter no. 393.
From Fromebridge Mills: extract from Mr Godsell's letter sent to Mr Waddy (letter no 392)
Instruct Sittington to make boatmen comply with orders, re Mr Stanton's complaint about boats and barges tied up in the short pound on Sundays. Instruct Perry to start the New Bridge for Whitminster. Re Mr Croome's work as set out instruct a labourer, not a bricklayer. Below signature: instructions to give to Peter re rubbish washed down off the drain below Westfield Bridge.
My Committee instructed me to write to Mr Waddy with your complaint. I will call on you on Tuesday.
Mr Charles Thomas Edwards owned 1 share, no.197; information given on how and who to claim the share before sale and dividend paid. Information on how much shares have been selling for and that a purchaser can be found at that price.
Instructions on the charge for the sacks of wheat carried by Mr Godsell.
You will hear from our Solicitors shortly about the claiming of shares as a result of the death of the late Mr J A Cooke..
Claim form enclosed re to whom dividends are to be paid.
