Further to Dave Williams' response to Andy Cuckson's question. Re my Smelt
Mills paper, the Thomas Smith from Swaledale was actually two men. The
first bought the Duke of Wharton's sequestered estates, but not the
minerals, in upper Swaledale, in 1738. The second was his son. The father
was a lawyer and the son was a reverend, so neither fits the bill. The
Thomas Smith in my (with Les Tyson) paper "The London Lead Company's
Yorkshire Mines: A new Assessment" was the first of the foregoing.
Regards
Mike Gill
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