CHAP. V. DI'KK'S CANAL T<> T1IK MKIISKY. 



.sv'.syV //Vs '//-ace Me /)& r/ Bridgwator to pay for traveling Chareges 

 by James Brindley. 



18 Novem 1761. 



18 No masuring a Cros from Dunh;im to \Yurbuton Mercey and 



Thalwall, 3s - lid Dunham for 2 diners Is - 3d for the man 



ls-0</ at Thai \vall Is - 2d all Night Warington 074 



19 Novem Sat out 1'rom Chester for London & at Worsley Septm 5 



Retorned back going to London and at London & hors back 



to Worsley Charged Hors & my salf 480 



9 december Coming back from Ham Stone Charges at Wilders- 



pool all Night ' 080 



at Warington to meet M r Ashley dining 042 



10 to ataind the Turn pike Rode 2s - Qd & againe on t e 12 D e 



Rode 3s -6^ 060 



21 Deem to inspect t e flux and Reflux at Ham Stone 2 dayes 



Charges 068 



26 Dec r 1761. Rec d the Contents of the above Bill by the Hands of 



John Gilbert. James Brindley" 6 00 



In the early part of the month of January, 1762, we 

 find Brindley husy measuring soughs, gauging the 

 tides at Hempstones, and examining and altering the 

 Duke's paper-mills and iron slitt ing-mills at Worsley ; 

 and on the 7th we find this entry : "to masuor the 

 Duks pools I and Smeaton." On the following day he 

 makes " an ochilor survey from Saldnoor [Sale Moor] to 

 Stoekport," with a view to a branch canal being carried 

 in that direction. On the 14th, he sets out from Con- 

 gleton, by way of Ashbourne, Northampton, and Dun- 

 stable, arriving in London on the fifth day. Immediately 

 on his arrival in town we find him proceeding to rig 

 himself out in a new suit of clothes. His means were 

 small, his habits thrifty, and his wardrobe scanty ; but 

 as he was about to appear in an important character, as 

 the principal engineering witness before a Parliamentary 

 Committee in support of the Duke's bill, he felt it neces- 

 sary to incur an extra expenditure on dress for the occa- 

 sion. Accordingly, on the morning of the 18th we find 

 him expending a guinea an entire week's pay in the 

 purchase of a pair of new breeches ; two guineas on a 

 coat and waistcoat of broadcloth, and six shillings for a 



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