On the subject of "Calaminery". Was the word meant to be "Cala-minery" or "Calamine-ery"
I suggest that the suffix "ery" was attached to calamine as in "Stannery" "Fishery" "Bakery" "Colliery" etc.
The Suffix "ery" can denote occupation, place or establishment or things collectively.
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:23:14 +0100
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> Peter's response to my examples of the use of 'minery':-
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> >To my mind there are two forms there - 'minery' in the geographical sense,
> >referring to a mining field or liberty and encompassing all the processes
> >carried out there (as on Mendip), and the other as a skill, as in having a
> >knowledge of 'minery'. I suspect it was very much a term of its time - the
> >17th/18th centuries.
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> prompted me to revisit Gough and, on the basis of a rapid skim through, I
> found the following on the subject of mineries:-
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> p.72 Example of laws from Queen Mary's reign - 'The oulde Auncyent
> Custum of the occupasyon of the mynerys in and upon the Quyns majestys
> forest of Mendyp wythyn her gracys countye of Somerset being one of the iiij
> stapulls of Ynglon which hath bene exersysd and contynuyd thrugh the seyd
> forest from the tyme whereof man hath noo memory as here after doth
> pertyculerly doth Apere'.
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> p.74 Now the first recorded meeting of the Minery Court of Chewton took
> place on 10 July 1554, and it was then stated that before that time the
> workmen in the mines had 'claimed Customes to and for their Occupation .
> amongst themselves to be observed and kept'.
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> p.89 To each of the four lordships there belonged a 'minery', where the
> 'buddles', or washing places, and smelting-furnaces and storehouses were,
> and where the lead-reeves performed many of their functions; the minery was
> in fact, the head-quarters in each district, and thither the miners, having
> obtained their ore from the pits all over the hills, brought it for making
> into lead, weighing, payment of 'lot-lead', and so on.
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> The first two quotes cover the codification of long established, but
> unwritten, mining laws, under Queen Mary (1553-1558). Like similar laws
> elsewhere, they set out the process for getting permission to mine and cover
> relationships between miners, and miners and the mineral lord(s). The
> Mendip laws also allow "that any workman hath landyd Any wore [ore] he maye
> carre hyt to weshing and blowing [smelting] to what myndry [minery] he
> semyth best for hys proffyt and commodyte so that he doo paye the tenth of
> that in lede or wore to the lord of the soyll where hyt was dygyd etc".
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> The last quote (p.89), Gough's attempt to sum the situation up, seems to
> rely on this freedom to move ore between mineries for dressing and smelting.
> Peter now seems to accept that, as I proposed in my first response, "Perhaps
> Gough drew his definition too tightly" and the consequent error of his own
> statement "As you will know - the 'minery' on Mendip was a lead ore
> processing area.", accepting instead that it refers to the area being mined
> (including provision for dressing and smelting). He goes on to suggest that
> minery's other meaning is "of its time", which is harder to prove one way or
> the other. Nevertheless, there are other examples of a word having similar
> dual uses, e.g. surgery (a place) - where surgery (the skill) is practised.
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> I would suggest that to equate minery with liberty is also wrong and that it
> was more tightly related to the area actually being mined, as opposed to a
> wider area over which the rights to the minerals (if any) are owned. The
> old map used by Gough has symbolic representation of the four mineries, and
> whilst not strictly accurate, it is adequate enough to suggest that they
> differ from the liberties.
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> Mike
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