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Name: William Aylett

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Subject: Personnel Record for Storekeeper's Dept.

Document Date: 14/08/1790

PRO Reference: Supply 5/215

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1. William Aylett's initial work was "in the punts, and setting and drawing stoves etc." earning 1/6d per day (Supply 5/215 dated the 14th August, 1790). 2. A Return of Employees dated the 16th April 1791, recorded that William was employed as a Millman at 2/-d per day, and this was also the case in August 1791 (Supply 5/215). 3. A letter to the Board from the Storekeeper, James Wright, and John Clowdersly, dated the 26th July 1791, recorded "at 1/2 past 1 o'clock the Lower Queens Mead Mill blew up. W Aylott the Millman had just laid on Green Charges and drawn the water gate just sufficient to move the runners and going to the Mill to liquor the Charge when it went off." William was uninjured and the Mill was working again that evening (WASC 475). 4. William was still working as a Millman in January 1792 (Supply 5/215).