A Warwickshire Colliery in the Seventeenth Century
Details:
- Author(s) Grant, Eric G
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 60pp; illus
- Publisher Dugdale Society
- Place Published Leeds
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Provides a detailed analysis of the 'medium-sized' Griff Colliery, Chilvers Cotton, which operated 1603-05. Uses accounts which cover part of this period. Has sections: 'The Griff account books'; 'Ownership and location'; 'Sinking'; 'Drainage'; 'Wood and miscellaneous charges'; 'Production'; 'Sales, profit and loss, and closure'. Provides transcriptions of selected pages of the accounts [pp35-60]