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Wednesday 15th April
The Clerk of Deliveries returns the quantity of Ore weighed over in the Quarter ending the 1st Instant at 600 Bings, the duty Ore from which is 96 Bings. There has been yet little weather for washing Ore this season, which accounts for the smallness of the return. Had an interview with Bones the Tenant of one of the Throckley Farms respecting his quitting it at May day next, & as the time is so near at hand, communicated directly with the Secretary on the subject. Rode round the Woodland and other Fences to see how the Work had proceeded during my absence.
Being required by the Board’s Minutes of the 2nd Instant to suggest what relief it might be proper to give in the cases of Michael Pigg and George Stokoe, I should say that under all the circumstances it would not be unreasonable to remit all or a considerable portion of the Arrear of £82.13.9 due by the former, before he obtained a reduction of his Rent, which was very high - and that as the other Tenants of Newlands and Whittonstall have been allowed to hold their farms for the present year at the rent they are to pay for the future, it may be reasonable to place Stokoe on the same footing provided he leaves the premises in a satisfactory manner. [marginal pencil note: ‘consent. Yes.’] The reduction of Rent in the Premises is from £45 to £37 a year.
