Another reference again from Schubert (1957:420). Here he is quoting Robert
Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (1686:163).
"The subsequent passages in which Plot speaks of different inclinations given to
the walls and their effect upon the iron, are literally copied from Dud Dudley,
Metallum Martis, p.42 ... but by Plot erroneously applied to the hearth of the
furnace instead of that of the finery, as Dudley did."
But obviously it was possible to do something to the hearth that could be
described as "let the Hearths at both works be always set Burrow and not
Transheer". Because that is what John England is being told to ensure happens
at Principio and Accokeek (Potomac) in 1730.
Jamie Brothers
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