[[142]] Exch. K. R. Accts., 260, no. 19.
[[143]] e.g. at Eyam and Litton.—V. C. H. Derby, ii. 338.
[[144]] Until the nineteenth century the would-be miner had to set up a model stow, fastened with wooden pins and not with nails.
[[145]] i.e. forwards and backwards along the line of the vein.
[[146]] It is not quite clear whether he threw from the old pit, in which case he would naturally throw a very short distance, or from his own pit, in which case he might so throw as to cover much of the vein which would have belonged to the elder pitchers.
[[147]] V. C. H. Derby, ii. 328.
[[148]] The Derbyshire standard dish made in 1512 and still preserved at Wirksworth contains about sixty lbs. of ore.
[[149]] Assize R., 132, m. 34.
[[150]] Ibid.
[[151]] Memo. R., K. R., Mich., 2 Edw. II., no. 55.