at a moderate cost, with ready carriage to and fro, through the ancient Borough and Port of Aberavon, now more generally known as Port Talbot. After the death of Mr. Wright, the management of the works fell to Mr. Philip Jones, father of Mr. William Jones, which latter gentleman was manager when Messrs. Vivian and Sons purchased the works in 1839, which gentlemen, it is said, revived and enlarged them on a perpetual lease, at a fine certain to the Landowner, Mr. Talbot, and they continue to this day under the personal supervision of one of the acting partners, A. Pendarvis Vivian, Esq., M.P. for Cornwall (West). Happening to have balance sheets of the Llangavelach works for the years 1743 and 1745, I select those for '45, not only being very full of detail, but as giving interesting particulars relative to the partnership, and the then intended changes therein. "The Swansea Copper Works" are noticed in both these accounts, thus shewing that they were in operation in those years, a fact which I have observed only in them and one of the balance-sheets of the Forest Works, dated 1768. "DR. LANGUVELACK COPPER WORKS, SWANSEA. To James Laroche, of Bristol ,, Voyage to Lisbon per 5 Copper teaches*. Consignments from the Works per cargo 28 December, not arrived .... * A technical term for the hollow bottom of a strong copper boiler, formerly much employed when acids came in for use. + Meaning hammered or beaten out. Copper smiths, copper warehouse, &c., in company with Copper ore remaining in Cornwall 816 t. s. d. 5 16 7 12 10 O 310 9 2 146 4 7 18 O O 192 15 10 7911 6 5 5133 13 5 53 5 I 223 17 9 Bills remitted us per the Bill on Jos. Gulston, jun. Francis Thorne of Dublin 394 5 II * Mr. Keates suggests that, this should be Thoyts who had a Copper Mill at Merton in Surrey, held afterwards by Messrs. Jas. Shears & Sons. † Of the great Historian's family. G. G. F. "We do hereby acknowledge to have examined the several accounts from which this balance of our Books is drawn from 31st December, 1744, to 31st December, 1745, and we find there has been a profit of Nine hundred and forty-five pounds, five shillings and ninepence in that year upon our joint capital stock of twenty thousand pounds, which profit is divided according to our respective shares, and carried to the credit of our particular accounts. There are also several debts due and owing to this our partnership which are at present deemed dubious or desperate, of which there is a list annexed, amounting to nine hundred and eighty-six pounds, four shillings and sixpence; and whenever the whole or any part thereof can be recovered and is received, the same is to be divided according to our respective shares; and whereas by Agreement made and signed between us the 18th July, 1744, we did mutually resolve to determine our partnership on the 31st December, 1745; and did also agree that the majority of the partners should have at that time power to sell and transfer our whole Capital to whomsoever they could agree with. Either of the partners interested in this copartnership, or any others with them, at the full amount of our net capital, which being Twenty thousand pounds. And whereas Richard Lockwood, Edward Elliston, John Lockwood, Robert Morris, and Hester Gibbon, have agreed to purchase the same at the sum of Twenty thousand pounds, to be paid to us according to our respective shares and interest therein after the * I would note that, these proportions do not represent equivalents. G. G. F. |