Witness Deposition – John Armstrong – 9 Nov 1720

In Suprem Cur



John Armstrong of Hatherickburn in the Parish of Hexham in the County of Northumberland Yeoman maketh Oath that he hath known the leadmines commonly called or known by the name of Jeffreys Groves in the Mannor of Blanchland for Five Years last past and  during all that time hath been imployed as a Workeman there and saith that the said Leadmines were wrought fairly and orderly according to the usuall course of working Lead Mines and that all the Shafts and Levells belonging to the said Leadmines were left in good order on the twenty seventh day of February last past save two or three old Shafts which were run together And this deponent further deposeth that in the Month of November last past Jonathan Maughan who was Agent for the Com[missione]rs of the Forfeited Estates in England did ride the Shafts and took a view of the Workings in the said Leadmines after the Engine had drawn down the water which was in the Workeings And this deponent saith that the said Maughan came to a place in the said Leadmines where this Deponant was working and found no fa[u]lt with the Workeing of the said Lead mines

       [signed] John Armstrong



Capt et Jurat apud Vill Novi Castr Sup Tinam Nono die Novembris Anno Regni Dui Georgii nunc Regis Magne Britanie &c Septimo Cor me



[in another hand:] Char. Smithson <Magr in C.. Extraorina.>