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ON looking over a packet of old papers I have found some documents, of which I enclose copies, written by a German miner, named Brandshagen, who was employed by my ancestor, Sir Philip Egerton, to superintend the attempt to work copper in the New Red Sandstone strata of Cheshire in the year 1697. As the rules for miners of that age afford so strong a contrast to the unruly behaviour of that class at the present day, they may perhaps interest some of the readers of NATURE.
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Miners' Rules in the Seventeenth Century . Nature 8, 47–48 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008047b0
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