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A History of the County of Shropshire
… were challenged in 1696 when several independent charter masters began mining. 82 Underground mining probably began … from the Wrockwardine Wood mines by about nine charter masters. Production fell to half that level by early 1810, to … dozens monthly were produced by two or three charter masters. The decline heralded the general recession in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 2 d. 41 The school was efficient under its four successive masters, 42 one of whom, Thomas Barlow (appointed 1881), …