'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
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- Author(s) Brown, John W, writer on lead mining
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2018
- Pages pp68-93
- Publisher Boydell Press
- Place Published Woodbridge
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Draws on the writer's doctoral thesis 'Lead Production on the Northeast Periphery. A study of the Bowes family estate, c1550-1771', Durham University, 2010. Considers the Bowes family's role as 'gentry entrepreneurs' in the early economic expansion of the north east region through their lead extraction activities in Weardale and Teesdale, within the lands of the Bishopric of Durham, shedding much light on the latter. Has sections: 'Lead mining and the Crown'; 'The Bowes family lead interests'; 'The Bowes family and lead mining over the seventeenth century'; 'Repeal of the Mines Royal'.