| Reference Number | DSCAM/6/1/10 |
| Title | Salisbury and Company, Old Buffery Iron Works near Dudley |
| Description | DSCAM/6/1/10/1-10: Benjamin Gibbons the elder (Complainant) v Richard Salisbury, Paul Tate, Thomas Hawkes, Robert Keate and Francis Home. In Chancery.
Copy bill of complaint (filed in response to proceedings by Salisbury et al. against Gibbons, in the King's Bench, for sums due from the now bankrupt firm of Gibbons and Stokes of which Gibbons used to be a partner), cases with opinions of counsel, notices and injunction; 1816-17. |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/11: Salisbury et. al. v Benjamin Gibbons the elder, Benjamin Gibbons the younger and Thomas Stokes. King's Bench, Staffordshire Assizes 1817. Pleas. |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/12: Copies of bills at 13 months drawn by David Home on Richard Salisbury and Company, 15 Nov. 1816. |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/13-14: Draft letter to the Revd Thomas Pearson re application to B. Gibbons senior for payment of a debt due to Salisbury and Company, 30 Mar. 1816; accounts between Hawkes, Salisbury and Company/Messrs R. Salisbury and Company and Benjamin Gibbons and Company, with related correspondence, 1813-16 |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/15-17: Handbill from B. Gibbons and Co., Level, 26 Nov. 1814 re plunder of coal, children stealing coal at direction of parents etc.; from David Home, Birmingham, 15 Sept. 1817, replying to allegations concerning liability for payment of bills drawn on Richard Salisbury and Co., contained in a handbill of 12 Sept. 1817; from 'A Friend to Truth', London, 18 Oct. 1817, on a similar theme, descrying malevolent falsehoods being spread about bills drawn on Salisbury and Co. (a partnership of Richard Salisbury, iron master, Thomas Hawkes, glass maker and Francis Home, as iron and coal masters).. |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/18: Copy agreement for partnership (dated 9 Aug. 1813) Salisbury and Company, between Paul Tate of the City of London, Esq., Richard Salisbury, late of Belfast, now of Dudley, Worcs., merchant, Robert Keate of the City of London, surgeon and Thomas Hawkes of Dudley, glass merchant, for working the coal at Bufferies and establishing an iron works there; capital £18000; term of 40 years; etc. |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/19: Draft agreement (Jan. 1819) between David Clarke of the parish of Dudley, miner and Richard Salisbury and Company, coal and ironmasters, to deliver all coal and ironstone he is working under part of the Old Buffery estate as specified to them, they paying 8s 6d per ton (of 20cwt) for ironstone, 3s 9d for coal and 1/- for slack, with provisions to cover a rise in wages in line with what Messrs Attwoods will pay; further payments in pits where all or part of the Gubben ironstone has been worked, of 2s 6d per bloom of 35cwt of white ironstone, 6d per ton of Eathen coals where no Gubben etc.; details of workings and where headins are to be driven; use of Salisbury and Co's plant and machinery |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/20-56: Related correspondence (Cullen v Salisbury) written by J.G. Bourne in London to his father, James Bourne, and to James Bourne junior, both in Dudley, during Dec. 1817, and including references to other legal business in progress, such as Attorney-General v Lord Dudley, Hordern ats Fereday et al. in Chancery; # 34 (20 Jan. 1818) has attached agreement for compromise between Lt Col. Francis Home and the remaining partners in Salisbury and Co. for the dissolution of the partnership, indemnification of Home and payment of £2500 to him over 24 months; by John Kirkham, Lapworth, Warwickshire etc. on behalf of the Stratford Canal Company, concerning settlement of Salisbury and Company's account, and issue of debenture in settlement, 1818; and damage done by working mines to 3 messuages in Prospect Row, 1820. 4 June 1817-6 Jan. 1821 |
| DSCAM/6/1/10/57-58: Letter from P. Tate, Bordeaux to James Bourne, Dudley, concerning annuity payments due from Salisbury, conduct of the business and Tate's suggestions for improvement, Salisbury's obstinacy, Tate's invetsment in 'this unfortunate concern' etc., 9 Jan. 1822. And contemporary copy. |
| See also DSCAM/5/8 for material relating to the Hawkes family and the Buffery estate. |
| Date | 1814-1822 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 58 items |
| Level | Item |