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Estimate of loss for Christopher Simpson of Riding Mill

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'Accompt' means 'account'

     We Paul Brown & John Byerley
[???]
[???]  did at the Request
of Ralph Smith and Wm Bainbridge [???] upon the 27 Day of
December 1771 take an estemation of the Damages sustained by Christo-
pher Simpson at the Riding Mill by the late Inundation, which according
to the best of our Judgements to be are as follows     £ : s : d
5 Cwt of Sheel'd Barley Damage 8s Pr Cwt.               2 :-- :--
7 Piggs nine Weeks old at     3.6 each                  1 : 4 : 6
One Bushel of Barley Meal Damaged                       - : 5 :--
One Peck of Oat Meal      Do.                           - : 2 :--
Do.     Wheat flower        Do.                         - : 2 :--
Do.     Barley Meal         Do.                         - : 1 : 3
Creem spilt                                             - : 3 : 4
Hay 3/4 of a Tun at £3:6s:-d Pr Tun                     2 : 9 : 6
                                                Total £ 6 : 7 : 7

N.B:The reason why in thiss our estemation of the above Damages several
Articles are not so high as in an Accompt before given is first the Sheel'd
Barley was therein valued at 14s Pr Cwt, the Selling price being only 12s Pr
Cwt. by their own Confession, And we are satisfied that tho' the said Barley was
Damaged as was also the abovemention'd Meal yet they were not thereby
rendered useless, And Secondly the Hay must be looked upon only a Mistake
in the former Accompt because it was not Cutt, so that when we caused it to be
Cut from Top to Bottom the damage appeared to be less by much than could
have been otherwise supposed and we were thereby enabled to give a
more proper Value of the Loss sustained in that particular. However
upon the whole we do judge the said Christopher Simpson  to be a proper
Object of Charity and we do hereby recommend Him as such to all the

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