Correspondence of Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven, 1693-1698. A provincial community in wartime
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- Author(s) Hainsworth, David R (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1983
- Pages 739pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press for British Academy
- Place Published Oxford
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Comprises an introductory essay but mostly transcriptions of the letters, 1693-98, of 1] William Gilpin, estate steward, to his employer, Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, 1642-1706, an absentee landowner living in London, and 2] of John Gale, Colliery Manager, to Lowther. Apart from detailing the relationship of estate steward and landowner, they provide much information about coal extraction and the organisation of the coal trade; development of the port of Whitehaven and the impact on it of war; tobacco trade; rope industry; shipping industry; woollen cloth manufacture; etc