| Reference Number | DSCAM/5/8/9 |
| Title | Mineral leases etc.: Hawkes and Salisbury and Company |
| Description | DSCAM/5/8/9/1-2: Lease (27 July 1813) by Mary Hawkes of Dudley, Worcs., widow, Thomas Hawkes of Himley, Staffs., Esq. and George Wright Hawkes of New York, United States of America (surviving trustees under the will of Abiathar Hawkes of Dudley, glass merchant), the said Thomas Hawkes (entitled to an equitable estate of one sixth in his own right), the said George Wright Hawkes (so entitled), Roger Wright Hawkes of Dudley, Esq. (so entitled), the Revd Robert Crockett of Fordhall, Salop, Clerk, John Michael Malonek of Liverpool, Lancashire, Esq., John Atkinson of Salford, Lancashire, merchant and John Watson Borradaile of Fenchurch Street, City of London, merchant (as trustees of the marriage settlement of Abiathar Hawkes, now a Captain, 21st Light Dragoons, and Mary Ann Borradaile; so entitled), and the said Abiathar Hawkes and Mary Ann his wife, the said George Wright Hawkes and Henry Crockett of Liitle Onn, parish of Church Eaton, Staffs., Esq. (as trustees of the marriage settlement of Robert Crockett and Maria Wright Hawkes; so entitled), and the said Robert Crockett, and the said Roger Wright Hawkes and Abiathar Hawkes (as trustees of the marriage settlement of John Michael Malonek and Sarah Hawkes; so entitled), and the said John Michael Malonek and Sarah his wife,
to Richard Salisbury, late of Belfast, now of Dudley, Esq., Paul Tate of the City of London, Esq., Robert Keate of Curzon Street, May Fair, City of Westminster, surgeon and Francis Home, Esq., a Captain in the 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards,
of 13 closes of land at Dixons Green, parish of Dudley (39 acres; extending from the Dudley-Hales Owen turnpike to the Anabaptist Meeting House; as specified, with names and acreages); and a messuage, a cottage, Farther Aston Barbors (3 acres), a barn and 4 acres of land, and Hither Aston Barbors (2 acres), all together at Netherton in the parish of Dudley; and Finch's Furlong (1a. 3r. 30p.), the top of Cooks Tetnall (3r. 4p.) and another close thereabouts (2r. 18p.), and seven-eighths of lands called Ashton Barbors and Stubble Leasow, near the said Anabaptist Meeting House at Netherton; and all minerals;
for a term of 40 years from 24 June 1813; at a rent of £13 p.a. (the current rent) for the various dwellinghouses, £4 10/- an acre p.a. for surface rents, 1s 6d per ton for Thick Coal, Heathen Coal etc. during the time that the market price for such coals does not exceed 8/- a ton, plus various fall and rise provisions related to the net price and colliers' wages, 2/- a ton for ironstone, 4d per sack of coke and 5d per ton of slack, 1s 6d per 1000 bricks made, with a minimum quarterly payment based on 500 tons of coal and 100 tons of ironstone a week; complex provisions for undeworking and overworking, arranged differently for the first 2 years of the term and the rest;
working covenants; plans endorsed.
And endorsed (6 May 1819) covenant between the parties regarding the assignment of shares under the lease, for which the lessors' consent is required by the terms of the lease; reciting #3 below, and the recent agreements for the assignment of the shares of Hone to the other partners and byTate to Salisbury
And copy agreement (13 May 1813) between Thomas Hawkes (on behalf of the devisees in trust) and Messrs Tate and Salisbury for the lease. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/3: Agreement (9 Aug. 1813) between Tate, Salisbury, Keate and Thos Hawkes, for conduct of business until proper articles of copartnership be executed; agreement to run from 3 June 1813; copartnery for 40 years from that date or until expiry of lease; styled Salisbury and Company; capital of £18000 to be provided by Salisbury and Keate (one third each) and Tate and Hawkes (one sixth each), paid into Dixon and Dalton's bank, with arrangement to increase capital; Salisbury to be managing partner at £300 p.a. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/4: Assignment (23 Aug. 1813) by Salisbury, Tate, Keate and Home, to Edward Dixon of Ashwood House, parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., Esq., of one sixth of the premises demised by the within receited lease [#2 above], in trust for Thomas Hawkes. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/5: Release [lease wanting] (22 Oct. 1813) by John Robinson of Birmingham, Warwickshire, brass founder, to Richard Salisbury of Dudley, Esq., Robert Keat, Paul Tate and Thomas Hawkes, of a close of land adjoining the Baptist Meeting House at Netherton, parish of Dudley, commonly called the Acre and formerly described as 4 ridges in a close called Ashton Barbers, to the various partners in sixths and thirds (proportionate to their partnership interest), with power of appointment, as specified, the partners variously acting as trustees to uses for each other; consideration of £420. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/6: Lease and release (21-22 July 1814) by the trustees under the will of the late George Jones (George Jones of Birmingham, Warwickshire, builder and Thomas Onions of Dudley, gentleman), with the consent of Joseph Whitehouse of Dudley, carpenter and Hannah his wife, to Messsr Salisbury, Keate, Tate and Hawkes, of 717sq. yds of Bush Croft alias Anthony's Meadow, Dudley, near King Street and opposite Union Street, to the various partners in sixths and thirds as in #5 ; consideration of £125 9s 6d. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/7: Lease (24 June 1815) by John Phillips of Dudley, gardener to Richard Salisbury of Dudley, Esq., Paul Tate of the City of London, Esq., Robert Keate of the City of Westminster, surgeon, Francis Home, Esq., a Captain in the 3rd Dragoon Guards and Thomas Hawkes of Himley, Staffs., Esq, coal and iron masters in copartnership, of minerals under 2a. 20p. of land at Bufferies, parish of Dudley, as specified, for a term of 7 years; consideration of £200, plus instalments of £350 on 24 June 1816 and 1817. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/8: Demise (3 Sept. 1818) by the trustees (named) of Netherton Baptist Meeting House to Messrs Salisbury, Tate, Keate and Hawkes of the Old Buffery Iron Works, parish of Dudley, coal and iron masters, of minerals under 1000sq. yds of land, formerly described as 31 perches and part of Ashen Barbers, being the site of the meeting house etc., for a term of 20 years from 25 Mar. 1818; consideration of £82 12/-. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/9: Minutes of an intended agreement between Richard Salisbury (on behalf of Edward Dodson Salisbury and himself) and Thomas Hawkes (on behalf of himself and the other residuary devisees of the late Mr Hawkes), for the Salisburys to take a 30-year lease of Bufferies at a rent of £3 per acre for surface, £300 p.a. for the furnaces and plant, and royalties of 5d-1s 6d a ton for coal and 2/- a ton for ironstone, 12-27 Dec. 1821. |
| DSCAM/5/8/9/10: Memorandum between E.D. Salisbury and Thomas Hawkes for former to continue in occupation of the mines and lands (excluding furnaces etc.), from year to year, 23 June 1832. |
| See also litigation at DSCAM/6/1/10 |
| Date | 1813-1832 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 11 items |
| Level | Item |