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Keswick, who from 1581 smelted copper with Daniel Hochstetter. Gans carried out analysis of nine "hurtful humours" or "corrupt humours", materials in the ore which made producing pure copper difficult. Gans, according to Nedham, was able to mitigate the problem and the humours were "by art made
179:. Nedham heard that the Yorkist pretender's arrival in June 1487 had been presaged by the catch of a large and mysterious fish. Just such a fish was caught when Nedham went to Piel to buy wine from a French ship. However, during the Elizabethan period, Lakeland lead and copper was carried to
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friends" to increase the yield. The nine hurtful humours were identified as; sulphur, arsenic, antimony, vitriol, "calcator", alum, iron, black stone, and white stone. Nedham recommended that
Joachim Gans join the new copper works at
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describing
Catherine Radcliffe as "marvellous unreasonable" and "many times so froward that nothing could be had at her hand", claiming that she inflated the prices of useful timber in the district.
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for a position to "farm the new cranes and wharves" in London after his advocacy of Emden trade alienated
Antwerp merchants. His wife's friends advised him against returning to Antwerp.
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Coal was brought from the
Workington district, but the plan for a wharf there was not realised. Nedham also had hopes for a deep-water haven at "Pillafowdre" or "Peel a Fouldre" (
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Nedham married Clare Jasper of
Antwerp. He and his son Arthur Nedham were appointed farmers of the London Custom House quay in 1577. He seems to have petitioned Cecil and the
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by removing accumulated sand so that lighters had longer hours of access to the quay, which, according to his petition, incurred the jealousy of other wharfingers.
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was founded in May 1568. Nedham was one of the lesser shareholders and joined with a German miner Daniel
Hochstetter or Hechstetter to mine copper in Cumbria at
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A. Hoechstetter-Müller, "Die 'Company of Mines Royal' und die
Kupferbergwerke in Keswick, Cumberland, zur Zeit Joachim und Daniel Hoechstetters (1526–1580)",
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to get the Queen's opinion. Tamworth had been a diplomat in
Scotland, and had recently delivered money to Regent Moray from Elizabeth's privy purse.
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Keswick (and Coniston), written in the last quarter of the 17th century", Bodleian MS. Lister 17
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in a political movement to cease trading with Spanish-governed Antwerp. He drafted "A Letter to the Earls of East Friesland" advocating trade at
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was supportive, considering the political instability in Scotland. Nedham asked Duckett to keep the business secret and ask the courtier
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Timber was used for construction and as a fuel for the smelting furnaces, some bought from Sir George and Catherine Radcliffe's woods at
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Elizabethan Keswick: Extracts from the original account books, 1564-1577, of the German miners, in the Archives of Augsburg
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Elizabethan Keswick: Extracts from the original account books, 1564-1577, of the German miners, in the Archives of Augsburg
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Elizabethan Keswick: Extracts from the original account books, 1564-1577, of the German miners, in the Archives of Augsburg
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F. J. Monkhouse, "Some Features of the historical geography of the German mining enterprise in Elizabethan Lakeland",
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in Derbyshire. His father was Otwell Nedham and his mother Elizabeth, a daughter of Nicholas Cadman of Colly or
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30:(died 1584) was an English entrepreneur and prospector associated with copper mining at
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Israel Abrahams, "Joachim Gaunse: A Mining Incident in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth",
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The City of London in International Politics at the Accession of Elizabeth Tudor
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This article is about the 16th-century miner. For the settler in Jamaica, see
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and other sites. In September 1568, Nedham discussed building a wharf at
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The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales
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Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England
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