English Industries of the Middle Ages
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English Industries of the Middle Ages is an introduction to the industrial history of medieval England. The preface says that the book makes no pretence to be a complete history of the early industrial life of England, but does claim to be an introduction to the study of that subject.
The text records a case in Derbyshire in 1322 in which Emma, daughter of William Culhare, was killed by 'le Damp,' that is choke damp, while drawing water from the 'colepyt' at Morley. The text says there is abundant proof that regular drainage by watergates, soughs, or adits had already come into use, and that coal-mining had reached the pit and adit stage. The text gives figures for Suffolk for the year 1395: 733 broad cloths made by about one hundred and twenty persons, of whom only seven or eight return as many as twenty cloths.
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- Author
- L. F. Salzman
- Pages
- 154
- Language
- English
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- European History
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