A Report on the Mines Royal at Keswick (and Coniston)
MS. Lister 17
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
A Report on the Mines Royal at Keswick (and Coniston)
Shelfmark
MS. Lister 17
Summary
A Report on the Mines Royal at Keswick (and Coniston), by George Bowes and Francis Needham, apparently made in about 1600, preceded by the instructions issued to them by the Society of Adventurers in the mines, and followed (fol. 19) by 'Sundry expiriments' or empirical receipts for smelting and assaying copper, which are in part not before 1667 (fol. 29).
At fol. Iv are also the instructions from the Company to Daniel Hechstetter for a similar report, dated July 30, 1616.
Date
written in the last quarter of the 17th century (?)
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
35 Leaves
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Collection contents
A Report on the Mines Royal at Keswick (and Coniston)
