Witness Deposition – Thomas Wall – 9 Nov 1720

[Two embossed Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense stamps, each of 6 pence, and an inked stamp of 8 pence]

In Suprem Cu Cam



Thomas Wall of Boltshope in the parish of Hunstanworth in the County of Durham Yeoman maketh oath that he hath known the said Leadmines commonly called of known by the name of Jeffrey’s Groves in the Manor of Blanchland for Eleven Years last past upwards And this Deponent saith that dureing all the said time he hath been imployed as a Workman in the said Leadmines & that the same was fairly and orderly wrought according to the usuall course of Workeing Leadmines, And that all the Shafts & Levells belonging to the said Leadmines were on the twenty seventh of February last past left in good order save two or three old shafts that were run together And this deponent further deposeth that in the month of November last past he this Deponent did ride the shafts along with Jonathan Maugham who was Agent for the Comissioners of the Forfeited Estates in England & took a View of the Workings in the said Leadmines after the Engine had drawn down the water which was in the Workings And this Deponent saith that the said Maugham declared to this Deponent that he found the said Leadmines in good order except the said two or three old shafts which were run together And since the said view was taken the said three shafts have been repaired & put into good order by Henry Grey Esq

[signed] Thos: Wall



Capt et Jurat apud Vill Novi Castr Super Tinam None die Novembris Anno Regui Dui Georgii nunc Regis Magnus Blritanie Et Septimo Cor ine



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