1754 07 08 : 02 : Detailed wages bill, Birkett Grove lead mine

Update on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 7:07PM by Petra Mitchinson

08 Jul 1754 (2). DETAILED WAGES BILL, BIRKETT GROVE LEAD MINE . A very neat and clean detailed wages bill for Birkett Grove Lead Mine. 12” x 8”. A Quarters Pay Bill at Birket Grove from Lady day till Midsummer 1754 per Christ. DOBSON MASON COATS & CLARKSON &c Miners Accot. £ s d £ s d Getting 7 Bing of Ore of the Old Bargain at 7s. per 2 : 9 : - Getting 40½ Do. of ye Quarters Bargain at 1£:1s:0 per 42 : 10 : 6 Mendg. Harkers old Sump 14 Shifts at 10d. per - : 11 : 8 Clearing Erringtons Sump 18 Do. at 10d. per - : 15 : - Sinking & driving in ye New Shaft bottom 4fath : 1yd : 6ins. at 7s 1 : 12 : - Driving up the field in ye lowest drift 2fathm : 7ins at 18s 1 : 17 : 6 Sinking in Errington’s Sump bottom 71/6 fathm. at 21s per 7 : 10 : 6 Mending the Waygates this Quarter till Midsumr. 1754 1 : - : - 8th. July 1754. Recd. of Sr. Ph: MUSGRAVE per —————— 58 : 6 : 2 Chr: DOBSON fifty eight pounds Six Shills. & two pence in full of the above by us [signed] John MASON [signed] Edward COATS [signed] James CLARKSON Washers Robt. TURNER & An: FROST Washing 66½ Bing at 1s:10d per 6 : 1 : 11 Do. a day budleing ye Wastes & laying by Green ore - : 2 : - ——————— 6 : 3 : 11 8. July 1754. Recd. of Chr. DOBSON Six pods. three Shills. and Eleven pence in full of the above Robt. TURNER’s + Mark An: FROST’s A Mark Smelter. Thos. HUTCHINSON Smeltg. 30 Fother at 6s. per ———————- 9 : - : - 8. July 1754 Recd. Nine pounds by T. HUTCHINSON’s T Mk Thos. RUDDs Disburstments. Isa: HARKER Carre. of 93½ Bing of Ore to ye Mill at 4d per 1 : 11 : 2 Do. Cutting & Carre. of 82 Sacks of Chopwood at 6d. per 2 : 1 : - 15 loads of Coals at at 11d. per 13s:9d, 5 Bushs. of Lime :3s:4d - : 17 : 1 Covering drying & removing 4 Kilns of Chopwd. at 3s per - : 12 : - 31 dos: of Grove Timber Cuttg. & Carriageat 7d per - : 18 : 1 Two new Ropes 1 : 16 : 6 Smith Bill for this last Quarter - : 12 : 6 4½ pods. of Candles when they wrought by Shift - : 2 : 3 Carriage of a Rope & a Piggpan - : 1 : 4 A New Keeble & a Piggon - : 1 : 1 3000 Stoprice at 2s. per 0 : 6 : 0, Soap for Mill 6d. - : 6 : 6 —————— 8 : 19 : 6 8th. July 1754. Recd. of Sr. Ph: MUSGRAVE Bart. ======== by Christ. DOBSON Eight pounds Nineteen Shills. Total 82 : 9 : 7 and Six pence in full of the above by [signed] Thom: RUDD 8. July 1754. Placed to the Accot. of Sr. Ph: MUSGRAVE Eighty two pounds nine Shills. & seven pence in full for the Above Disburstmts. laid out in Birket Grove till this Day per [signed] Chr DOBSON