| Description | Index at front, pages numbered as folios. Records income and expenditure, giving dates, names and sums paid or received. Payments are often for goods (e.g. coals, spade shafts, fol.8, or 8 long poles to the mine fol.10), but also include e.g. expenses appointing a new constable, or for men when the militia was at Bakewell. Some of the entries record moneys received on someone's behalf, e.g. folio 19 records a payment received from John Nailer for William Roberts. This may be the John Naylor who kept a lead-mining diary c1789-1810, referenced D7812/1.
The volume itself is numbered D6967/4/5 (i), with its loose front cover and inside page being numbered (ii) and (iii).
Loose papers inside the volume are numbered D6967/4/5 (iv) to (xviii) and include:
Water Grove accounts;
Promise to pay slips made out to William Wyatt;
Turnpike subscription receipt;
A Reckoning of Chappell Dale Mine from October 7th 1788 to Oct 7th 1801;
Profits from the Old Belland measured from the Chappell Dale Mine;
Chappell Dale partnership document, dated January 1770, with a list of names, including the Duke of Devonshire, and the proportions subscribed. |
| Custodial History | This item was deposited by the Peak District Mines Historical Society in June 2016, having been purchased from a bookseller in York by donations from their members in May 2016. The volume had previously been part of the collection of Denis Gray, a Solihull historian and collector of printed diaries, as well as manuscripts. The collection came to the bookseller following the death of Mr Gray's widow. It is not known when Mr Gray acquired the item, though the Peak District Mines Historical Society speculate it may have been in the 1960s or early 1970s. |