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LITTON MILL 1820s

This undated document was in the same file as the 1821 document.

 

The proprietors of land with in the Liberty of Taddington and Priestcliff did agree to porches apiece of land of Mr Elias Needem assenees [?] apiece of land called Priestcliff nether leese with alarge Prenteshouse erected thereon Likewise apies of land in the Liberty of Litton with nine houses erected there on likewise thay did apoint six persons to see about that purches namely Wm Bagshaw Matthey Roberts Joseph Bradock Richard White Wm Makinson and Robert Wright and there was abond sined by the proprietors that if nine tents dothe sine they are to purchase or else not nine tents did not sign but thay purchased likewise thay have borrowed two hundred pounds contrary to Bond sined and have gathered of the proprietors nearly thirteen hundred pounds neaver gave any a count how that money waslaid out nor one penney of the profits nor intrist money a rising from that large sum a cording to Bond signed there was fifty pound bidden for the meterels of the Prentes hous but would not take it thay have puled all down taken and sould all the meteriels never gave any a count forthem Hit is said by good authority that one of those a fore said six men called[?] trust have nearly a hundred pounds of the proprietors money in hand the Chappel wardings they have given [?]..ties in the Church several times to make there accounts but never would make anney Hit is desired that astatement should be made and shone to some of the largest proprietors which have signed the Bond then for astatement to go into Chesterfield News paper and to call ameeting to be held at Bakewell and to have an attorney to consider whether the Bond sined have been carried on in alegal and an honest way