Elizabethan Keswick. Extracts from the original account books, 1564-1577, of the German miners in the archives of Augsburg

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Author(s) Collingwood, W G
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1912
Pages 219pp; illus
Publisher Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society
Place Published Kendal

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City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Based on accounts of the Keswick copper mines and smelting works of the Society of Mines Royal which had recently been discovered in the archives of the Society's biggest shareholder, David Haug, Hans Langnauer & Co, at Augsburg. These archives include memoranda about the Society and accounts about the mines. The volume comprises two parts: 1] an introduction to the archives, explaining their nature and content, and 2] extracts from the journals, 1569-77, with a commentary by the author, providing a detailed account of performance, activities, working, etc, of the mines and the Society