Society of Mines Royal
Other Business Names:
- Haug, David, Hans Langnauer & Co
- Hechstetter, Daniel
- Company of Mineral & Battery Works
- Quaker London Lead Co
- Bowes, George
- Needham, Francis
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Coniston, Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England
- Keswick, Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Neath, Neath Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, Wales
Sectors:
-
Basic metals production
Copper & brass smelting
-
Extraction
Copper extraction
-
Extraction
Lead extraction
Notes:
Awarded royal charter in 1568 granting it various mining and smelting (eg lead and copper) privileges in several parts of England and Wales. The Augsburg, German, firm of David Haug, Hans Langnauer & Co was important in its formation through its England based agent, Daniel Hechstetter, 1525-81; they were the largest but not controlling shareholders. By 1569 had established a copper mining and smelting complex at Keswick operated by a community of German immigrant workers. Later also had smelting works at Aberdulais, Neath, South Wales. Closely associated with the Company of Mineral & Battery Works. Subsequently In decline and lost its monopoly privileges in 1690s. Some of its mines were leased from 1690s to a business which became the Quaker London Lead Co
Publications:
- Constitution and Finance of an English Copper Mining Company in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; being an account of the Society of the Mines Royal by Scott, William R
- Domestic Metalwork, 1640-1820 by Gentle, Rupert, & Rachael Feild, revised by Belinda Gentle
- Elizabethan Copper. The history of the Company of Mines Royal, 1568-1605 by Donald, Maxwell B
- Elizabethan Keswick. Extracts from the original account books, 1564-1577, of the German miners in the archives of Augsburg by Collingwood, W G
- Elizabethan Monopolies. The history of the Company of Mineral & Battery Works from 1565 to 1604 by Donald, Maxwell B
- English Patents of Monopoly by Price, William H
- 'Fluctuating forces. The Bowes family and lead mining concessions, 1550-1720' in A Green & B Crosbie (eds), Economy and Culture in North East England, 1500-1800 by Brown, John W, writer on lead mining
- Germans at Coniston in the seventeenth century by Collingwood, W G
- Industry before the Industrial Revolution; incorporating a study of the chartered companies of the Society of Mines Royal and of Mineral & Battery Works by Rees, William
- Instructions given by the Company of Mines Royal to George Bowes and Francis Needham by Wildridge, Joseph D J
- Keswick and Coniston mines in 1600 and later by Collingwood, W G
- Record of the Mines Royal and the Mineral & Battery Works by Davies, D Seaborne
- Select Charters of Trading Companies, AD1530-1707 by Carr, Cecil T (ed)
- Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District from the Time of Elizabeth to the Present Day by Francis, George Grant
- Society of Mines Royal and the German colony in the Lake District by Jenkins, Rhys
- Some features of the historical geography of German mining enterprise in Elizabethan Lakeland by Monkhouse, F J
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Haug, David, Hans Langnauer & Co
- Hechstetter, Daniel
- Company of Mineral & Battery Works
- Quaker London Lead Co
- Bowes, George
- Needham, Francis
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Coniston, Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England
- Keswick, Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Neath, Neath Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, Wales
Sectors:
- Basic metals production Copper & brass smelting
- Extraction Copper extraction
- Extraction Lead extraction
Notes:
Awarded royal charter in 1568 granting it various mining and smelting (eg lead and copper) privileges in several parts of England and Wales. The Augsburg, German, firm of David Haug, Hans Langnauer & Co was important in its formation through its England based agent, Daniel Hechstetter, 1525-81; they were the largest but not controlling shareholders. By 1569 had established a copper mining and smelting complex at Keswick operated by a community of German immigrant workers. Later also had smelting works at Aberdulais, Neath, South Wales. Closely associated with the Company of Mineral & Battery Works. Subsequently In decline and lost its monopoly privileges in 1690s. Some of its mines were leased from 1690s to a business which became the Quaker London Lead CoPublications:
- Constitution and Finance of an English Copper Mining Company in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; being an account of the Society of the Mines Royal by Scott, William R
- Domestic Metalwork, 1640-1820 by Gentle, Rupert, & Rachael Feild, revised by Belinda Gentle
- Elizabethan Copper. The history of the Company of Mines Royal, 1568-1605 by Donald, Maxwell B
- Elizabethan Keswick. Extracts from the original account books, 1564-1577, of the German miners in the archives of Augsburg by Collingwood, W G
- Elizabethan Monopolies. The history of the Company of Mineral & Battery Works from 1565 to 1604 by Donald, Maxwell B
- English Patents of Monopoly by Price, William H
- 'Fluctuating forces. The Bowes family and lead mining concessions, 1550-1720' in A Green & B Crosbie (eds), Economy and Culture in North East England, 1500-1800 by Brown, John W, writer on lead mining
- Germans at Coniston in the seventeenth century by Collingwood, W G
- Industry before the Industrial Revolution; incorporating a study of the chartered companies of the Society of Mines Royal and of Mineral & Battery Works by Rees, William
- Instructions given by the Company of Mines Royal to George Bowes and Francis Needham by Wildridge, Joseph D J
- Keswick and Coniston mines in 1600 and later by Collingwood, W G
- Record of the Mines Royal and the Mineral & Battery Works by Davies, D Seaborne
- Select Charters of Trading Companies, AD1530-1707 by Carr, Cecil T (ed)
- Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District from the Time of Elizabeth to the Present Day by Francis, George Grant
- Society of Mines Royal and the German colony in the Lake District by Jenkins, Rhys
- Some features of the historical geography of German mining enterprise in Elizabethan Lakeland by Monkhouse, F J