Robert,
A Valentine Cake presented 1 piece of tin weighing 155 pounds at Tavistock
Coinage on 22 September 1642, paying duty of 2s 5 1/4 d (National
Archives/E101/287/1) - maybe he was a relative, but it's a long shot!!
Tom.
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From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Robert Waterhouse
Sent: 23 February 2010 16:01
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Subject: Re: Arthur Cake
Dear List,
I'm trying to find a bit more about the above person, who seems to have been
a tailor in the Tavistock area between about 1710 and 1740. He had shares
in a number of tin and copper mines in West Devon and East Cornwall and is
mentioned as an adventurer in several of the early C18 Bedford Estate copper
leases.
His father, also called Arthur Cake, was a fellmonger (he prepared hides for
the tanners) in Tavistock and probably a farmer in Peter Tavy parish circa
1700.
Anyone got any ideas?
Robert Waterhouse
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