AND MILLWIMGHT. 



it thoroughly, and 1<> the end of his life lie wrote with 

 difficulty, and almost illegibly. His spelling was also 

 very had ; and what with the bad spelling and what with 

 the hieroglyphics in which he wrote, it is sometimes very 

 difficult to decyphef the entries made by him from time 

 to time in his memoranda books. 



We find him frequently at Trentham, entering, on one 

 occasion, a " Loog of Daal 20 foot long," and at another 

 time fitting a pump for " Arle Grower," the Earl being 

 one of Brindley's first patrons. The log of deal, it 

 afterwards appears, was 

 required for a flint-mill 

 (fa Mr. Tibots " a mow 

 [new ?] in volition," as 

 Brindley enters it in his 

 book of which more 

 hereafter. On May 18, 

 1755, he enters " Big 

 Tree to cut 1 day," and 

 lie seems to have felled 

 the tree, and, some months 

 after, to have cut it up 

 himself, entering so many 

 days at two shillings a 

 < 1 a y for the labour. W hen 

 lie had to travel some 

 distance, he set down 

 sixpence a day extra for 

 expenses. Thus on one 

 occasion he makes this 

 entry: "For Mr. Kent 

 e<>ni mill of Codan look- 

 ing out a shaft neer Broun 

 Edge 1 day : 2 : 6." 



Between Leek and Trentham lay the then small pottery 

 village of Burslem, which Brindley had frequent occa- 

 sion to pass through in going to and from his jobs for 



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