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The Company of Mineral and Battery Works was, with the Society of the Mines Royal, one of two mining monopolies created by Elizabeth I. The Company's rights were based on a patent granted to William Humfrey on 17 September 1565. This was replaced on 28 May 1568 by a patent of incorporation, making it an early joint stock company.
- September 17, 1565; 457 years ago
- Elizabeth I
- "battery ware" (items of beaten metal), cast work, and wire of latten, iron and steel
- Mining
Elizabethan Monopolies The History of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works from 1565 to 1604. By Prof. M. B. Donald. Pp. xv + 256 + 10 plates. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, Ltd ...
- F. C. Thompson
- 1962
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The Company of Mineral and Battery Works was the sister company to The Mines Royal Co. Like its sister company, The Mineral and Battery Works Co had a monopoly and a royal charter. It worked on a much smaller capital, the whole of which seems to have been found at home; its field was the manufacture of brass and the drawing of wire by water power.
Founded. May 28, 1568; 455 years ago. ( 1568-05-28) Fate. Merged with Company of Mineral and Battery Works. Headquarters. England. The Society of the Mines Royal was one of two English mining monopoly companies incorporated by royal charter in 1568, the other being the Company of Mineral and Battery Works .
- May 28, 1568; 455 years ago
- Merged with Company of Mineral and Battery Works
- England
Two volumes, covering the periods i 568-85-6 and. i620-I7I3 respectively, belonged to the Mineral and Battery Works, and. the third contained the minutes of the Mines Royal from i654 to 1709. It is clear from these records that they would, in all probability, have been irretrievably lost to posterity in the first decade of the eighteenth century.
The extraction of calamine ore at Worle Hill in the Mendips had proved prohibitively expensive for the production of brass, however, and on 28 May 1568 the Company of Mineral and Battery Works took over the operation of the furnace at Tintern, and converted it to the production of iron wire for use in wool-carding, the first such mill in England.
Feb 3, 2011 · Elizabethan Monopolies: The History of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works. By M. B. Donald. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1961. Pp. xvi, 256. 50s. - Volume 23 Issue 1
