The alum farm : together with a history of the origin, development, and eventual decline of the alum trade in north-east Yorkshire / by R.B. Turton.

  • Turton, R. B. (Robert Bell), 1859-1938.
Date:
1938
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Credit: The alum farm : together with a history of the origin, development, and eventual decline of the alum trade in north-east Yorkshire / by R.B. Turton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £°°’6sWh£e Tillis 'yas continued as his assistant at £i33 6s 8d. (also unchanged ; both salaries were paid uo £e• Ctarpenter took over from wniis 2 me 2otn March 1613, just one month before the agreement w s executed fixing the compensation payable to^William Jtated to e y par?ers & His first ™ was, as frgram ed>‘° contract for the manufacture of alum at a fixed rate. He soon succeeded in letting- the houses at Rplmn * ?0“„ar N.re‘r„,B„”ks “'»? ■» Si^... KS'Iohn c™'e WwtS ge 1 owell. There were two houses at the former and one a the latter; for the three years ending ist April 1616 they contracted to manufacture every year in each of these f yeear°inSeSalS,0° The °f ^ ? T5 ^ a to»> or '-5°oS materials for the } received £ 100 earnest money, and materials for the improvement and upkeep of the works amounting with carriage and other incidental expends to £,2,450. These materials consisted of fifteen tom of bar .yon (part from Danby at ^l6 and part from Kent al ^14 18s.) over twenty tons of cast iron mostly from Kent fif£8 r°A6 a T, In,the form of suPPorters and puncheons fifteen fodders of lead at ^14 Ios., and, in addition fifteen boiling pans, five furnaces, four settlers, seventeen steeping Pits, six receptories, thirty-four coolers/one mother cistern Coards73r C'Stem’ 311(1 f0ur-hund^-and-eighty deal 1 lT6^ tke ^in§- 9s- a chalder for three hundred coal Td t* <]Uarters’. fiYe 6ushells and three pecks of coal, and they also received on loan five hundred chalders (cvnci cost the King 5s. a chalder for land carriage from oa ham to the works) on condition that they left an equal quantity ,n stock at the expiration of their contract. ^ To defray the cost of these materials and to pav the arrears due to the workmen and other necessary expenses recourse was had to the King’s Revenue. Including a sum °f ^3,ooo received from the farmers of the customs £13,100 was paid out of the issues of the exchequer for the r cdveTfrom t V' N° aIum at ^ received from the Dorset works. The three house* ot Belm°nt Bank and Newgate Bank instead of producing (1) A.0.1, 2486/350. (2) Ante p. 97. (3) i.e., four long hundreds of six score. Iio
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