> Are we using the same hymn sheet?
Obviously not. I always try to use people's most recent work, which in this
case is:-
"Daniel Hechstetter the younger - Memorabilia and Letters 1600-1639 - Copper
Works and Life in Cumbria".
Edited by George Hammersley, published by Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, in 1988.
In the intervening 15 years, Hammersley appears to have refined his view of
the Lake District operations.
> As Hammersley says ('Technique or Economy', p.12) by the second decade of
the 17th century silver provided around 15 percent of income, and that was
enough of a margin to tip the scales in favour of survival.
This does not fit well with Hammersley's belief that duties on silver were
remitted from 1602 to 1638. I can only repeat that Mineral Lords simply did
not remit duties for long if output increased. Perhaps his 1973 paper was
talking about the contribution of silver from the Society of Mines Royal's
mines elsewhere.
Mike
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