1707 12 17 : Arrears payments and plumbers' draft contract
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 10:33PM
Petra Mitchinson in BATY, Contracts, Edenhall, Estate accounts, Farming, GIBSON Christopher, JOHNSTON, LICKBARROW, MUSGRAVE Christopher 5th Bart., Plumbers, STOOKS, WILSON

Update on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 10:35PM by Registered CommenterPetra Mitchinson

17 Dec 1707. ARREARS PAYMENTS AND PLUMBERS’ DRAFT CONTRACT. Bundle 5, Doc 16. 32 cm x 19.5 cm. Crumpled edges, dirty at the top with one hole. There is a list of arrears payments on one side, and the back has been used in 1709 to draft a contract in Jeffrey BECK’s handwriting. The handwriting deteriorates and there are lots of corrections squeezed in, making the draft contract very difficult to read. Ednall Jun: 25 1707 – Recd in part of the Arreares when due to the honble Sr Chr MUSGRAVE Bat £ s d Novbr 17 1707 Recd of Thomas WILSON in pt for four } fatt oxen sold by Mr GIBSONs } 10 00 00 Novbr 24 1707 Recd of Thomas WILSON the last pt of } the four oxen price } 12 00 00 Dec 24 1707 Recd of Abraham STOOKS for Twenty } fatt wethers sold by Mr GIBSONs } 10 10 00 Dec 17 1707 Recd of David BATTY for hay for scotch } cattle sold Aprill 1707 by Mr GIBSONs } 04 13 00 ——————— ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noverint universi per prsentes nos Johanem JOHNSON de penrith in Com~ Westmrland Cumberland plumber et Johane JOHNSON filius Eiyous in prdicto Com~ plumber teneri et firmiter obligari Christophero MUSGRAVE de Edenhall in Com~ Cumberland~ ye Bartoonetij in Quatragint Libris bone ett Legalis monete magne Britannie solvendum bone ett eidem fidelitre Chris~ MUSGRAVE Camerdra [?] Eidem Christo MUSGRAVE aut suo certo attornate Executoribs administrate &c [?] suis adquam quidem solviioned~ [?] bene et fidelitur feciendu~ obligamis nos et uterumq eum pro se proto et in solido Heretis Exrs & administratores ieius [?] et utriusque eum per se pro to tofirmiter per presentes sigillis nostros sigilat dat secundo die Junjj anno Regni domi~e ure [?] Anno deo gratia magne britannie fidei defensoris &c octavo anno domi 1709 The Condicion of this obligacion is such that If the within bound John JOHNSON sen~ and John JOHNSON Jun~ their Excectors admrs or assignes do att or before the first tenth day of July next comeing after the date within written att their own proper Costs and Charges Work man like Remove [?] & make anew Run down all the lead on the Western tower of Edenhall and and fully finish or caues to be made don & finished in al things belonging to the Art & Guild [?] of a plumber with ony *** spleades to one new spout in the same forme itt is in now on the western the tower next to the Garden with and one other new spout of that side next to the Chaple and after the same be Compleeted & finished the sd John JONSON his son there Excutrs heirs or assignes doth wreste [?] & blale [?] to repair maintain and aplod for 7 yeares and in case any defect in any sheet bye neglect off nor true working the same to be by the sd John JOANSON Sen~ or John JONSON Jun~ or their and further in case there be any defect in any pat when the same is firstlier [?] the sd John JONSON or his is to make itt good an sufficint to the Judgenr of Reginall LICKBARROW a person skiled in the plumbe trade leed for the sd roofe [?] to find all and the sd Chr MUSGRAVE Bart within named in Consdrece of the due performance hereof is to pay upon the finishing of the sd work unto the sd John JONSON the sum of Sixty [?] five shillings a sum [?] afray [?] upon the sd Western Tower are am to presenters [?] am for grett [?] or left a Trustedy [?] – then my [?]

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