Report – Amos Barnes – 23 Oct 1736

October the 23d 1736



Amos Barnes and Jos Layburn by the Order of Missrs Walton & Beag went to John Bacon Esqr in Order to View Stublick and Cragshead Colliery but  the said Bacon refused and said if we would view her we should bring men along with us to let us down and draw us up for he would not comply with any such thing let the commissioners do as they pleased but after he granted if men were at work on Monday we might come if we pleased but we met with some of the workmen which gave us information as followeth .



NB the Colliery is wrought with a boll Corve Corn Measure



Hewing <a corve>                       £----10 [d]

Pulling do                            ------ 4

Candles 1d <sharping> & <...> 1d <...>  ---- 2

Overmens wages and Drawing            -------4

                                      £--.1. 8



NB 1 Score will be 10 horse load and sells for <...> load wch [which] is 2s. 6d and they work about 60 Horse loads if say 5 days in the week and 40 weeks in the year.



There is an Old pit which is about 30 yards from the present working pitt which lyes to the South West which is 10 fathoms the present working pitt is 11 4/6 fathoms and we believe

She rises to the North and drops to the South



When Amos Barnes and Jos Layburn made a propasall for taking the aforementioned

Colliery which is as followeth; that the said Barnes and Layburn would pay the sum of twenty pounds per year for the Term of twenty one years for the said Colliery providing that the Commissioners would grant us liberty to build a house on the common & take in about 6 Acres of Ground.

NB <the> Seam is about 21 Inches high and has a blue cover.