1794-1812
Gloucestershire Archives TS163
Minutes of Committee of Trade
Messrs Estcourt & Bowsher, Monmouthshire Canal, re Monmouthshire coal.
Joseph Jeffery, appointed Agent at Lechlade, in place of Messrs Penn & Bradfield. Salary £90. Mr John Hipsley, Wharfinger at Lechlade wharf, salary £70 per annum.
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Letter to the Commissioners of the River Thames, cf letter, 26 March 1799, seeking to improve trading arrangements.
Old stock of Newport coal at Abingdon.
Reduction on freight.
Notice to Messrs Whatley Brewer & Co.
Mr Newman’s Trade Cash Book examined.
Barges Hayes and Ironsides with punt and towboat unfit and to be broken up, also barges Thames and Severn by end of summer.
Mr Holmes to settle freight debts. Mr Procter to deliver notice to Mr David Whatley and Mr William Brewer to end Agreement.
Hull of Bristol vessel on stocks in Bourn Yard to be sold. Shed there to be repaired, masts and yards to be struck, scraped and put in good order, decks and sides above water to be caulked and painted.
Freight reduction extended to groceries and packed merchandise.
Rev Dr Disney, Matthew Chalie and J S Salt had collected from Brimscombe the Balance Sheet of the Trade Ledger and a General Account of the Committee of Trade to 5 April. These showed a considerable loss on the Trade Account over two years – partly due to the general increase of prices while charges for freight had not increased. Agreed to relinquish the carrying trade and dispose of their boats.
Wharfingers accounts and outstanding trade debts examined. Letting or selling of boats approved.
Treasurer’s business.
End of agreement with Messrs Baker, Miller & Co. re carrying trade.
Increase in price of coal.
Mr J Denyer, bookkeeper, to move to Mr Sills’ house in London. Salary increased to £150 per annum.
Local traders had agreed to hire and manage the Company's boats; John Baker, L & R Wyatt, Matthew Laurence, R Hopkins, Thomas Tovey, Joseph Brookings.
Mr John Holmes given notice.
Inferior Newport coal on Abingdon Wharf sold to Mr Thomas Fletcher.
Mr Sills to continue as chief Agent. £100 per annum.
Notice to Mr R S Skey of Birmingham to resign as Agent.
Mr Newman to remit sums over £500 to Mr Salt.
William Lewis, son of Thomas Lewis, to be taken on as counting house assistant.
Mr Salt to accept R S Newman’s drafts. Mr Denyer to write to Mr George Harmar, Agent at Gloucester.
Mr Newman to give Bond at the Custom House at Gloucester for the Swansea, Chalie, Lane, Matthew, Newport and Fisher.
Mr Denyer to receive £20 for removal expenses on moving from Brimscombe to London.
Wharfingers accounts examined.
Mr Newman allowed 8 days leave.
Increase in price of Bilston and Newport coal.
Mr Sills to talk to bargemasters re purchase of boats.
Increase in price of Bilston and Newport coal.
Mr Thomas Lane is to write to Mr John Dudman to settle his account.
Dined at Ross’s Lombard Street.
Increase in price of Newport coal.
Reduction on price of Newport coal. Advertisement for Newport coal to be brought to Brimscombe.
Mr Salt to accept drafts of Mr Harford in place of Mr Newman.
Approved Richard Miller’s agreement to hire boats and to carry coals to Lechlade.
Increase in price of Newport coal. Mr Denyer’s salary increased to £170 per annum and £10 for coals.
Increase in price of Newport coal.
Mr Denyer, having taken on work of his assistant, William Lewis who moved to Brimscombe Port, to have salary increased to £200 per annum.
William Lewis to be employed as clerk in Counting House at Brimscombe. £18 per annum and his board paid.
Mr Harford allowed £25 for board of William Lewis.
Thames Carriers advertise increased freight rates.
Mr Sills to dispose of Company’s horses at Abingdon and Brimscombe to Messrs Wyatt & Co. or by public auction.
Price of Bilston coal at Brimscombe reduced.
Agreed that Mr J Denyer do take with him to Brimscombe Port the Journal & Ledger belonging to the trading account. From 25 June, Mr Salt authorised to accept the drafts of Mr J R Denyer in the place of Mr Harford for the purposes mentioned in the resolutions of 22 Februrary and 8 March 1803.
Dined at the George & Vulture.
General Minutes of the T&S Committee
Meeting at Mr Sills, 80 Lombard Street
General Minutes of the T&S Committee
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Dined at the George & Vulture
Stafford & Worcester Canal remaining boats to be calked and worked till Michaelmas or longer. Falling off of coal trade at Newport, but Committee wanted the trade to continue.
No payment of £200 by Brookings or £30 by Baker as expected
Dined at the Half Moon, Gracechurch St.
Mr Hippsley to be informed that wharfage on all goods landed at Lechlade from Brimscombe should be charged for.
Dined at Ross’s Lombard Street.
800 tons of Bilston coal to be sent to Cricklade wharf before end of November.
Lechlade Wharf to be fully furnished with Bilston and Newport coal.
Banks of the Island of Brimscombe Port to be guarded on N E side by piles and planks. Better security and convenience for landing.
John Skinner letter carrier from Minchinhampton to Brimscombe Port – 5s weekly allowance to continue because of his age and infirmities.
Charles Dicks to be paid salary up to Michaelmas, the expiration of his notice.
Goods not specially consigned to be forwarded by the next following vessels in rotation.
Insurance of buildings at Brimscombe Port (and the fire engine) to be opened by Mr L Chambers in the Imperial Fire Office, London.
Coppice behind Counting House to be thinned.
Arrears of rent due from Mr Keene of Stroud for ground opposite wharf at Wallbridge. Notice to quit.
Committee decline proposed sale of house now inhabited by Herbert Bird. Thorough repair.
Estimate of expense of repairing house on hillside, occupied by Herbert Bird.
Samuel Bird to build three punts to be employed on the repairs of the canal.
Piece of ground at Wallbridge, now occupied by William Gurner, adjoining on the east Mr Watt’s garden wall, nearly half an acre, to be offered to Mr Price, one hundred guineas an acre, for shops, depositing timber, iron castings and reserving a passage next to Mr Watt’s wall.
Dined at Ross’s Lombard Street.
Empty vessel going to the Bourne for repair. Remission of tonnage.
Two of the trows in Stourport trade to be converted into lighters from Framilode.
Flints at Stourport to be sold.
Boats heretofore hired by Richard Miller to be sold to him.
Supply of Newport coal at Abingdon, 100 tons in addition to present stock.
£140 to Messrs Harford Partridge & Co.
The Kings Bromley (Thames barge) to be kept for supplying Company’s wharfs with coal.
Mr Denyer to explain why boats only carry 20 tons whereas in last year’s long drought they carried 40 tons.
The Beacon at Framilode, broken by one of Company vessels, to be replaced.
Trows Rolleston and Radnor, unfit for service, to be sold.
Payments of £2000 to Thomas Lane and William Stevenson.
Dined at Ross’s.
Mr Denyer to call on Mr Haines re the proposal for an aqueduct to carry the Badbrook under the canal with the expense divided.
Coal to be taken from the Llanhyddell Company and Mr Robert Salusbury with equal preference.
Committee to review Mr Hills’ proposal to build a warehouse at Brimscombe.
The established office of the Company is no longer in London.
Mr Morland’s bill for law expenses, £55.6.8, to be paid.
In reply to Mr Hains’(sic) letter re aqueduct to convey the Badbrook under the Thames & Severn Canal, the Committee declined.
Three Newport ketches to be laid up.
Supply of Newport coal at Abingdon stopped. Increase on Tenby coal, 2 shillings per ton.
Mr Hodges’ House at Wallbridge, approved an increase of rent.
Lease on Tontine warehouse at Bristol. Information from Mr Bright.
Mr Denyer to inquire into Mr William H Prinn’s claim.
Dined at Ross’s.
Mr Proctor to report re aqueduct to convey Badbrook Stream under Thames & Severn Canal.
Messrs Stuckey & Jacob have voided their lease as result of letting salt warehouse at Brimscombe.
Mr Denyer to mark out part of the wharf at Brimscombe for the use of Mr Darke that does not interfere with that allotted to Mr Baker and to give notice to Mr Darke to remove his coal from Mr Baker’s part.
Mr Galton’s letter. Mr Sills to get new boat owners to dispatch a single boat from London rather than wait for a second boat to be loaded
Agreement with Messrs Wyatt, Mr John Baker and Joseph Brookings re dispatching single boats
Lease of Messrs Stuckey & Jacob should be sent to Mr Pitt of Cirencester to deal with.
Reply to Mr Galton’s letter re tax on grounds and buildings.
Falling off of sale of coal. Full report requested from Mr Denyer.
Mr Denyer to write to Mr Skey for payment on Hemming’s debt.
Mr Morland of Abingdon to second Mr John Phillips jnr’s application on lease of part of Abingdon Wharf.
Dinner at Cole’s Coffee House.
Mr B Morland of Abingdon informed Committee that Mr John Phillips had signed the deed for lease of Abingdon Wharf granted by his father to the Thames & Severn Canal Company who can sub-let if required. Such wharf to be advertised in Oxford and Reading papers.
Auction of Newport and Matthew ketches.
Bilston and Newport coal reduced at Brimscombe, Cricklade and Lechlade.
Dined at Cole’s Coffee House.
Agreed a settlement of debt with James Millard, late of Oxford, (now a prisoner with the King’s Bench).
Notice – Coal Trade. Sale of Severn Ketches and Trows.
Dined at Coles.
20-40 tons of Tenby coal to Abingdon.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills, value £1000.
Agent at Brimscombe need only retain £300. Any excess to be paid to Mr Salt.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills, value £500.
Roof of salt warehouse at Brimscombe to be repaired and a partition erected to divide the same into two.
40 tons of Tenby coal to be forwarded to Abingdon.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills, value £500.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills, value £500.
Case to be prepared for opinion of Mr Morgan on how to deal with the Company’s debt..
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills.
Mr Denyer to establish whether the coal business at Lechlade is making a profit or loss.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills, value £500.
Mr Salt to pay £500 to Proprietors’ Account.
One shilling increase in price of Bilston, Newport and Forest Coal.
Mr Salt to sell Exchequer Bills value £10,000 and pay the money into the Proprietor’s Account
Reduction in prices of Bilston, Newport, Lydney and Bullo Pill coal.
Bullo Pill coal price reduced.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills, value £500.
Mr Salt to purchase Exchequer Bills, value £500.
Tenby coal reduced at Lechlade Wharf.
Exchequer Bills £1000 to be transferred to the Proprietor’s Account.
List of tonnage rates including classification of goods as light or heavy items.
Copy of letter approved on 9th December 1794.
Copy of letter sent 7th February 1795.
List of Thames and Severn vessels in July 1795.
