The records in question were held at Sheffield - handy!
We visited on 6th Feb 2012 ad this is some of what we found:
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And below is our "translation":
Bower's Mill 6th, August 1744,
Gentlemen,
The Secretarys of the 2nd, Instant I have, Shall observe to pay no
more money for pretended Debts as owing by Geo: Clarke for the Companys
Account 'till I have your orders, I have paid James Potter no money 'tho he
had demanded sundry times, believing he Charged more than due, will take an
Account this week of all hitherto Claimed & Send it you, . . . . . . . _________
4th Instant at Bakewell Draw on Secretary Farrington for £111 . .
Excise money payable to yo, Commiss rs, 28 days after date, ___ as the Excise
this time runs so Low shall be Short of Cash & desires to know if you permit
me to draw upon you for what more I Shall have Occasion to pay for Bought Ore etc a,
As many of yo, Miners cannot Support their Familys for a Quarter without
borrowing Money and their Ore not being dressed up I know not how to lend them
Safely, thinks it best to dress up & measure yo, Ore twice each Quarter I then can
know what money to advance them As was always done in Jethro Normans time
I believe in so doing we Shall raise Considerably more Ore, Consequently may
lower yo, price of Cope, __________ Annex'd you have yo, Lead Account to 24th, June
which hopes you'll find right. . . . . . . I am Your Obed t, Serv t,
Joseph Whitfield
P.S. I am just informed Geo, Clarkes wife
sets out tomorrow morning by y, Derby
wagon for London, having heard by a
letter from Widdow Holden to Geo: Clarke
junior that her husband was Imprisoned?
Idem W:____
We assume this is a letter to the shareholders of the London Lead Company.
yo, = your
We're not sure of the term "Cope" (2nd last line) - Coke or Coal would make sense but the word really does look like Cope..........
The word IS in fact cope and relates to the term "lot and cope" which is some sort of duty that we don't fully understand.
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