[42b] Ibid., Domestic Series, Int., No. 816.
[42c] State Papers, Domestic Series.
[43] Brit. Mus., Harl. MS. 6839, fol. 332.
[46] State Papers, Domestic Series.
[47a] On similar principles, the eighth Order of the Free Miners’ Court enacted that “no iron ore intended for Ireland should be shipped on the Severn or Wye for a less sum than 6s. 6d. for every dozen bushels.”
[47b] Commissioners’ Report of 1788.
[54] To these works Mr Thoresby alludes, in his diary, 7 Sept., 1694, recording that near Egremont he passed “by the iron mines, where we saw them working, and got some ore.”
[61] There are other important Iron works at Tintern, Redbrook, &c., but it does not appear that Dean Forest iron is used at them.
[71a] It is difficult to explain the bold introduction of so important an insertion, unless we attribute it to the over-wisdom of some modern printer, who regarded Edward III. as the only excellent and redoubted prince of the Edwardian category.
[71b] These comprehensive limits mark an early age; but in mining matters they were hardly more than nominal—the mineral district comprising only a third of the land thus circumscribed.