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




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