1707 – Extract from Thomas White’s Account Book
Matt Bluss [?] rates for stone to smelting mill:
£ | s | d | |
Ore Harth | 1 | 4 | |
Spur Crowning [?] | 1 | ||
a lineing laying | 1 | ||
a Lead Sump laying | 3 | ||
a Slag Harth Sump | 5 | ||
a New Spier | 5 | ||
a pan and Workstone | 5 | ||
a Lining round | 3 | 4 | |
a workstone lining | 1 | 8 | |
a Slag Harth | 2 | 2 | |
a pan and workstone laying | 1 | ||
a Back Slag Harth Sump | 2 | 6 | |
£ | s | d | |
P(er) Fod(der) Ore Leading | 5 | ||
P(er) Fod(der) Smelting | 4 | ||
Do. Knocking Lag [ _ ag?] | 8 | ||
Do. Chops | 6 | ||
Do. Leading to Sawly | 5 | ||
Do. Leading to Milby | 9 | ||
Do. To York | 1 | 6 | |
Do. Crane Day | 1 | 8 | |
Do. Porters Day | 1 | ||
Do. Mr Harrison | 6 | ||
Do. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Hull?] | 1 | 8 | |
Do. receiveing and paying | 2 | ||
Do. Labor _ _ _ | 4 | ||
Do. Warehouse Due | 8 | ||
Do. Weigh Money | 4 | ||
Do. To Provision Setting | 1 | 6 | |
The expences besides the charging of getting of Ore, Timber _ _ _ _ [etc?] this of every Fod(der) of Lead. | 1 | 18 | 1 |
£ | s | d | |
Blackwork Dressing p(er) Fod(de)r | 18 | ||
Dressing to the Slag Harth | 1 | 10 | |
M _ n to _ _ _ Slag Harth | 18 | ||
Chops for Smelting | 15 | ||
The price of timber chops | £ | s | d |
Chops for Ore Lead per Fod(der) | 6 | ||
if the wood my owne | 5 | ||
Chops for blackworke | 11 | ||
if the wood my owne | 9 | 2 | |
Chops for Smelting Slags | 15 | 6 | |
if the wood my owne | 12 |
A note concerning the transcription
The round brackets ( ) indicate letters missing from the text of the original document which used standard scribes abbreviations. The square brackets [ ] contain my comments of words not understood.
“Do.” – this is an abbreviation of “ditto”, or “as above”
Fodder, a unit of weight for lead, varying at different periods between 2184 and 2520 pounds. From the Old English fother, a cartload. It has a host of spellings, a few of which are: fozer, fodre, fudder, foulder, fodder. 14th – 18th centuries.
1794
Derby: 22½ cwt; 112-pound cwt 2520 pounds
Gainsborough and Stockwith: 21½ cwt; 112-pound cwt 2408 pounds
Hull: 19½ cwt; 120-pound cwt 2340 pounds
London: 19½ cwt; 112-pound cwt 2184 pounds