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May it Please your Honours
With most Humble Submission and in obediences to your Honours Commands I have hereunto annexed the Estimate of Jeffreys Grove, the best I am capable to do at so great a distance and supposeing the Grove to be in the like Condition I have knowne and been informed, shee has been for some years past.
It is my opinion that the Grove when the Lease is expired, if not Ruined by Unfair working may be Lett to some that will worke her fairly and effectually too; att every 6th or 7th Duty.
As to the Late Lord Darwentwaters Lead Mines they were Generally Lett by Tack Note or Lease, paying one fifth Duty and Limmitted to a certain number of yards in length and breadth.
A tack note should be Renewed every year if no Lease in that time be Demanded.
A Lease is generally for 21 years Granted, and Subject to a great many Covenants and the Discontinueing workeing with such a number of pickmen as Agreed to, or the breach of the other Covenants by Unfair working, the same becomes a forfeiture into the hands of the Lord of the Royalties.
As to Collierys they are More or Less valueable, according to theire Situation, the height of the seam, the Goodness of the Coal, and the Water Charges that may attend the Same & the other Contingencies, together with Conveniencies to the water as to wayleave etc which without viewing one may be vastly wide in estimation. And are generally Lett for a yearly Rent or by the Term which is Generally accompted better.
Jonathan Maughan
FEC 1/705. Undated but from the context reads as though written as a covering letter for a report on the coal mines at Stella and lead mines at Jeffreys, Shildon and Alston Moor, now TNA FEC 1/742. That report is itself undated but some internal points hint at the summer of 1718. It is assigedn a date of 1st August 1718 here.
