Lot 251
Aire and Calder Navigation. A group of documents concerning the funding, development and improvements to the Aire and Calder rivers for the purposes of navigation, including; an indenture dated 1712 between Edith Meagor and Joseph Watkinson 'for ten lotts or shares which he hath in the tolls and profitts... of the navigation upon the Rivers of Air and Calder'; a further obligation between the same parties, dated 8 May 1712; an indenture dated 1721 between Richard Norfolk, William Norfolk, John Burton and Thomas Dickens 'for making an keeping navigable the rivers of Aire and Calder'; an obligation between the same parties, 1721; a 4pp. manuscript letter from William Rooth to Richard Burton Esq., dated 10 July 1806, concerning income from the locks; a quarterly dividend statement to Richard Burton Esq, for £642.17.11, dated 14 May 1841; another for the same amount, dated 13 November 1840; another for the same amount dated 12 February 1841; another for £584.9.0 dated 15 May 1840; another for the same amount dated 14 February 1840; another for £610.15.0 dated 12 November 1841; another for the same amount dated 13 August 1841; an acknowledgement of receipt, signed Richard Burton; a manuscript 'abstract of John Burton Esq title to the estate Shares and Interest in the Navigation of the Rivers of Aire and Calder in the County of York', 42pp.; 11 sheets with computations concerning the expenses and dividends, c. 1780-1800; a ALS from Joseph Priestley to Richard Burton, dated 8 April 1819, concerning the failure of the Aire and Dun Junction Canal Bill; an engraved 'Plan of the Rivers Air and Calder...' c. 1800; 8 large scale Ordnance Survey maps of the navigation, c. 1920 (a quantity)
