My grateful thanks to all who have responded to my query re-Wheal
Dollar in Zennor.
Regards
John
On 24 Nov 2006, at 16:08, Peter King wrote:
> My guess is that the landowner forfeiting the lease needed to make
> formal
> entry, not only to the surface premises (perhaps a counting house),
> but also
> to the mine itself. If there was no head gear this would be
> difficult.
> However, placing his own goods (in this case a stone) in the mine
> shaft was
> presumably deemed to be an act inimical to the continued existence
> of the
> lease. I have not heard of the practice before, but this is not
> quite my
> subject.
>
> Peter King
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of
> John C Symons
> Sent: 24 November 2006 13:47
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> Subject: Re: Wheal Dollar
>
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> If the plan is not too large I must see if I can obtain a copy from
> the CRO. I'm waiting for photocopies of the newspaper references from
> the Cornish Studies library, as well as the CRO reference listed in
> A2A.
>
> I already have a significant number of court documents, it was from
> these the quotation was taken. No one was labouring at Wheal Dollar
> at this time, or any time previous, this being the reason for
> forfeiture. As far as I am able to determine nothing of any
> significance had been undertaken, and certainly no buildings had been
> erected, or machinery installed.
>
> I have yet to come across any reference to mining at Wheal Dollar
> prior to the 1820s working. Does the MRO plan have a date?
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
> On 23 Nov 2006, at 14:29, Alasdair Neill wrote:
>
>> The MRO plan of Wheal Dollar at CRO Truro (MRO R306B) shows shallow
>> workings (?10 fathoms deep) with two shafts both pumped by a horse
>> engine
>> up to a shallow adit. I have a redrawn copy of this, if you want to
>> see the
>> original please note that I understand the MRO plans at Truro will
>> shortly
>> be withdrawn by the HSE for digitising.
>> This section presumably predates the 1820's when there was a small
>> steam
>> engine erected (sale notice amongst the newspaper refs quoted).
>>
>> I have never heard of a stone being thrown into a shaft as a
>> method of
>> repossessing a sett - usually a notice of forfeiture was attached
>> to the
>> count house, capstan, or some other similar feature. What if
>> someone was
>> working in the shaft at the time?
>>
>> It may be worth checking the books of proceedings of the Stannary
>> Court at
>> CRO which perhaps give more details - I don't think these are
>> indexed for
>> individual mines. I havn't seen them myself but some time ago put
>> Allen
>> Buckley onto these for an earlier date, he indicated these are well
>> worth
>> further research.
>>
>> Alasdair Neill.
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