A Warwickshire Colliery in the Seventeenth Century

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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]