 In desperation, the Company agreed a "reduction" in tolls to the Johnson Brothers in return for an end date to their effective monopoly seven years later; this was agreed in the face of objection from the Exchequer.Lord Morley, seeing the reality of the situation, cut a canal from his quarry down to Marsh Mills, in exchange for low rates.This was actually simply a widening of an existing leat and proved unsatisfactory as a canal.