A blog for those interested in the heritage and culture of traditional salt making in the UK.
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Saturday, 23 April 2016
Shakespeare - 400th Anniversary
'We have some salt of our youth in us.'
William Shakespeare,"The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3
400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
Friday, 18 March 2016
Salt Commissioners 1702 to 1798
In a week when the Chancellor of the Exchequer has presented a Spring Statement/Budget I have been tracking down the Commissioners of Salt Duty appointed between 1702 and 1798.
A list was prepared in 2003 by JC Sainty and published by the Institute of Historical Research -http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/comms-salt
I have been trying to find out a bit more about their background, but found many have a very low web presence. If you can find links to any of the Commissioners please leave a comment.
The office was abolished on 28 June 1798.
I number of those I have found seem to have died without leaving male heirs, without children to inherit their lives seem to have been lost.
Some have interesting histories, such as JOHN MORTLOCK, the last to be appointed in the year the office was abolished.
John Mortlock (1755-1815) described the role of Commissioner of Salt Duty as 'a troublesome office of small value' and having been accused by his opponents as being corrupt his response, which is recorded on a blue plaque in Cambridge, was -
"without influence, which you call corruption, men will not be induced to support government, though they generally approve of its measures" the blue plaque qualifies this with "his bitterest political opponents never impeached his business honesty".
John Mortlock's bank in Cambridge eventually sold out Barclays in 1896.
THOMAS EVARARD joined from the Excise and published a book using his slide rule to guage barrels - https://archive.org/details/stereometryorar00evergoog
JOSHUA CHURCHILL committed suicide by cutting his throat at his home.
Two Commissioners had their portraits painted by Thomas Gainsborough.
Currently, still NO information at all about THOMAS SUTTON and THOMAS MILNER.
Currently, still no residence or grave for JOHN DANVERS, JAMES CARDONNEL, HUMPHREY GRIFFITH and LEWIS GEORGE SCHELE.
SCHELE was only a short appointment and later appears as a debtor in the Fleet Prison.
Any help would be appreciated......
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.728893,-1.8255367,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!6m1!1szKjwvuCnCd3E.kZ53ERGjbb4A?hl=en-GB
A list was prepared in 2003 by JC Sainty and published by the Institute of Historical Research -http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/comms-salt
I have been trying to find out a bit more about their background, but found many have a very low web presence. If you can find links to any of the Commissioners please leave a comment.
The office was abolished on 28 June 1798.
I number of those I have found seem to have died without leaving male heirs, without children to inherit their lives seem to have been lost.
Some have interesting histories, such as JOHN MORTLOCK, the last to be appointed in the year the office was abolished.
John Mortlock (1755-1815) described the role of Commissioner of Salt Duty as 'a troublesome office of small value' and having been accused by his opponents as being corrupt his response, which is recorded on a blue plaque in Cambridge, was -
"without influence, which you call corruption, men will not be induced to support government, though they generally approve of its measures" the blue plaque qualifies this with "his bitterest political opponents never impeached his business honesty".
John Mortlock's bank in Cambridge eventually sold out Barclays in 1896.
THOMAS EVARARD joined from the Excise and published a book using his slide rule to guage barrels - https://archive.org/details/stereometryorar00evergoog
JOSHUA CHURCHILL committed suicide by cutting his throat at his home.
Two Commissioners had their portraits painted by Thomas Gainsborough.
Currently, still NO information at all about THOMAS SUTTON and THOMAS MILNER.
Currently, still no residence or grave for JOHN DANVERS, JAMES CARDONNEL, HUMPHREY GRIFFITH and LEWIS GEORGE SCHELE.
SCHELE was only a short appointment and later appears as a debtor in the Fleet Prison.
Any help would be appreciated......
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.728893,-1.8255367,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!6m1!1szKjwvuCnCd3E.kZ53ERGjbb4A?hl=en-GB
Friday, 15 January 2016
Thursday, 7 January 2016
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Saltcote Issue No.3
The 3rd issue of our newsletter is now available.
http://issuu.com/ecosaluk/docs/saltcote_2015_no3/1
http://issuu.com/ecosaluk/docs/saltcote_2015_no3/1
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Buy a Copy of John Henry Cooke 1848-1928 'a very worthy gentleman'
A&A Fielding Ltd have published a second book through the on demand service of Blurb.
John Henry Cooke was the first clerk to the Winsford Local Board, Cheshire and was solicitor for those promoting the Brine Pumping (compensation for subsidence) Bill of 1881 and for the second Bill which became an Act in 1891.
Some years ago Andrew and Annelise Fielding bought a copy of JH Cooke's book describing the celebrations that took place in Cheshire to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in which he had written notes about his life and his work dedicated to the people of Winsford. The notes describe his life and his education as he trained to become a solicitor and the sadness from which he never really recovered following the death of two of his sons in the Great War. His library about the salt industry in Cheshire was used by Albert F Calvert while Calvert was compiling his book Salt in Cheshire published in 1915.
John Henry Cooke was the first clerk to the Winsford Local Board, Cheshire and was solicitor for those promoting the Brine Pumping (compensation for subsidence) Bill of 1881 and for the second Bill which became an Act in 1891.
Some years ago Andrew and Annelise Fielding bought a copy of JH Cooke's book describing the celebrations that took place in Cheshire to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in which he had written notes about his life and his work dedicated to the people of Winsford. The notes describe his life and his education as he trained to become a solicitor and the sadness from which he never really recovered following the death of two of his sons in the Great War. His library about the salt industry in Cheshire was used by Albert F Calvert while Calvert was compiling his book Salt in Cheshire published in 1915.
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