Gunpowder Mills. Documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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- Author(s) Crocker, Alan, et al
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 181pp; illus
- Publisher Surrey Record Society
- Place Published Woking
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- Country England
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Provides transcriptions of four documents relating to gunpowder production in the historic county of Surrey, each having an historical introduction and explanation. The volume as a whole has two introductory chapters on the 'Gunpowder industry' [pp1-4] and on 'The manufacture of gunpowder' [pp5-20]. The documents are: 1] Carshalton Gunpowder Mills, deed of sale, 1661; 2] 'The inventory of William Buckler, 1678', Buckler being the operator of gunpowder mills at East Molesey, Wandsworth and Faversham; 3] 'The inventory of Thomas Pearse & Co, 1753' covering Faversham and Chilworth Gunpowder Mills; 4] 'Letter book of William Tinkler, 1790-91' relating to the day to day management of Chilworth Gunpowder Works