Letter

Samuel Wood (Chester) to Sir John Trevor (Little St Bartholomew's, London): the brickmaker has brought recipient's letters agreeing terms with him but had left the horse recipient had lent him at Lichfield as it was lame and tired so the writer will send back for him as there will be work for him and another horse on the estate; has had 2 tumbrels made and has been promised wheels and 2 barrows to use in the gardens etc. but did not intend the brickmaker to use these and does not yet know what kind will suit him; he will go to try to prevent the other brickmakers from coming but fears they will go to Mr Meredith's anyway and learn what has happened - ''tis the manner of workmen to visit and enquire after every place where works are done if they hear of it and they will reveal all their wages and prices one to another'; 'I am I think fully informed that that slack of coals only will serve to burn brick which is made and lies in the pits not that which lieth on the banks and that in the pits they sell for 6d a load but Sir Robert Eaton tells me that the best way is to use the best coal and to beat them small and that will be much better and almost as cheap as coal slack aand that every full load of coals will burn well 4000 and will cost at the pits 2s..6d and as much for carriage or thereabouts ans so it will cost you about 15d or 16d for every thousand. So many loads of slack will not do so much but I will be yet better informed God willing. I have bespoken a measurer and yet the foul weather (which hath been wet above measure) keeps him away …; comments regarding the plans Mr Smedley has been asked to produce, grafting of pear trees and apples which Mr Marshall asks to be allowed to do himself...'

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