| Description | Title written on the dorse. No doubt the "By Mr. Bridge" pencilled under it is a true description of the author, if only for the severe reflections on the career of his predecessor Mr. Paynter, (and, of course, the nature of the script). Refers to the time of Paynter as one grandiose schemes (sic), the appointment of a slate-reeve at a slary of £4 a year, and a clear profit to the owners at the end of Paynter's eight years' agency of £8.0.2. (this kind of casting is not altogether fair, as the small profit was called by J.P. "never accounting" for £555.0.21/2 received for slates between Novr.,1743, and May, 1744). For the rest, Bridge draws a distinction between the "Carnarvon trade" (i.e., Cilgwyn) and that of Penrhyn very much like that of Paynter (only not so interestingly put, doct. 1967). He has new suggestions to make regarding more production by tenants. |