I am in the process of doing a paper on a set of eighteenth century
colliery accounts for as small mine near Kirkby Stephen and they show a
significant difference between the amount of coal sold and the amount
raised in the early days after the sinking of the shafts. Presumably
the coal won whilst sinking the shaft and opening the bottom of the
shaft was not recorded against a particular miner as the shaft sinkers
were on a day rate.
Are the 2 recent quotes from Lord Boltons accounts published or are
they direct from the original source?
Graham Brooks
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>Date: 18/09/2008 14:26
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subj: Re: [MINING-HISTORY] Working the pillars
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>Preston Moor Colliery was presumably being worked by systematically
by
>sinking numbers of shafts till at least 1711 (quote below) which must
have meant a
>complicated method for robbing the pillars or at least retaining
support for
>the shafts.
>
>"I mention not the Sump Coals gott at the soaling of every fresh
Pitt which
>may be ten or twelve corfes at a time which were not accounted for"
>
>The sump coal was taken without paying any duty to the Duke of
Bolton.
>
>Regards
>Ian Spensley
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