Bond – Robert Stagg – 1 Dec 1778

      Know all Men by these Presents that We Robert Stagg of Garrigillgate Joshua Stagg the Elder and Joshua Stagg the younger of Howgillsike All in the Parrish of Garrigill in the County of Cumberland Gentlemen are held and firmly bound to the Governor and Company for Smelting down Lead with Pit Coal and Sea Coal in the Sum of Three Hundred Pounds of good and Lawfull Money of Great Britain to be paid to the said Governor and Company or their certain Attorney Successors or Assigns For the true Payment whereof We bind our selves and each of us our respective Heirs Executors and Administrators and each of them firmly by these Presents Sealed with our Seals dated this first day of December in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland. King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy eight

      Whereas the above bounden Robert Stagg is chosen and admitted a Mineral Agent to the said Governor and Company in the North of England The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the said Robert Stagg do and shall from time to time and at all times hereafter during his Continuance in the Service of the said Governor and Company faithfully and honestly Execute and Discharge the said Service and every other Service of the said Governor and Company wherein he is shall or may be employed and Faithfully Account for all such Sums of Money as he shall receive or may be intrusted with on behalf of the said Governor and Company Then this Obligation to be void and of none Effect or else to be and remain in full Force and Virtue



Signed Seal’d and Delivered

being first duly Stamp’t

in the Presence of 

Thos. Hall

Thos. Friend					(signed) Robt. Stagg			(his seal)

						(signed) Joshua Stagg Elder		(his seal)

						(signed) Joshua Stagg Younger	(his seal)