Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
Emrys R D Prosser Collection

ACCESSION 1322 and 1447

Ref: PRO/B1

Research: Lead Mining
The papers in this Sub-series mostly comprise Prosser’s research notes taken from various publications and manuscripts, probably gathered together as part of his research into his essay ‘A History of Lead mining in Wales’, which won the Beatrice Grenfell prize at the 1951 Eisteddfod. The papers also include later research and drafts of work.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/1
TITLE: Newspaper cuttings relating to mining in Wales
DATE: 1950-1956
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Cuttings and transcriptions taken from the Montgomeryshire Express, Cambrian News, Western Mail, and South Wales Echo.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/2
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘The History of Lead Mining in Wales with the industrial and social conditions associated therewith’
DATE: 1951
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Draft version of ERD Prosser’s manuscript which won the Beatrice Grenfell Prize at the National Eisteddfod in 1951 under the pseudonym Mab y Twm.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/3
TITLE: Manuscript entitled ‘The History of Lead Mining in Wales, with the Industrial and Social Conditions Associated Therewith’
DATE: 1951
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Essay submitted by Prosser under the pseudonym ‘Mab y Twyn’ for the Beatrice Grenfell Prize at the National Eisteddfod.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/4
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Prices of Lead at London Metal Exchange from Times’
DATE: January-December 1954
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Gives morning and afternoon figures.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/5
TITLE: Research notes relating to lead mining
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from various publications including O T Jones’ ‘Lead and Zinc Ores in the Slaty Rocks of Britain’ and O C Harn ‘Lead: the precious metal’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/6
TITLE: Research notes relating to mining
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from a variety of publications, including Collier’s ‘A Treaties on the Law Relating to Mines’, Bainbridge’s ‘The Law of Mines and Minerals’, and Lowe’s ‘The Heart of North Wales’. Also includes a notebook containing a speech written by Mr. Prosser entitled ‘It is not advantageous for Wales to be independent of England’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/7
TITLE: Research notes regarding the measurement and price of lead
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a number of publications including Ashley’s ‘An introduction to English Economic History and Theory’ and Lipton’s ‘Economic History of England’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/8
TITLE: Research notes concerning mining
DATE: nd [1950s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a number of publications including Percy’s ‘The Metallurgy of Lead’, Forbes’ ‘Metallurgy in Antiquity’, and Francis’ ‘The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/9
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead I’. Research notes primarily relating to mining, particularly Welsh lead mining.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/10
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead II’. Research notes primarily regarding metal exchanges.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/11
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead III’. Notes taken from a number of publications including Singer’s ‘A History of Technology’ and Donald’s ‘Elizabethan Copper’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/12
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead IV’. Notes taken from a number of sources including Brooke’s ‘Chronology of Tinplate Works of Great Britain’

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/13
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead V’. Notes taken from publications including ‘The Coming of General Limited Liability’, ‘The Records of the Court of Augmentations Relating to Wales and Monmouthshire’, an entry on arms from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and ‘Sir Hugh Myddelton’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/14
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead VI'. Notes taken from a number of publications including Jones' 'The Welsh Mint' and Raistrick's 'The London Lead Company 1692-1905'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/15
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled Lead VII’. Notes taken from a variety of publications including Simpson’s ‘The City Gilds of Chester: The Smiths, Cutlers and Plumbers’ Company’ and Lewis’ ‘An Inventory of the Early Chancery Proceedings Concerning Wales’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/16
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead VIII’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/17
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead IX'. Notes taken from Nef's 'The Rise of the Coal Industry'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/18
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead X'. Notes taken from a number of publications incuding Davies' 'The Records of the Mines Royal and the Mineral and Battery Works' and Court's 'The Rise of the Midlands Industries'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/19
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XI'. Notes taken from 'Mynydd Parys I-VI'. Only the first few pages of the book have been used.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/20
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XII'. Notes taken from a number of publications, including Quinn's 'Metal Handbook' and Biblical references to lead.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/21
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead XIII’. Notes taken from a variety of publications including Craig’s ‘The Mint: A History of the London Mint AD287-1948’ and Latimer’s ‘The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/22
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XIV'. Notes taken from a number of publications including Boyd's 'Narrow Guage Rails in Mid-Wales' and Nef's 'The Progress of Technology and the Growth of Large-sacle Industry in Great Britain'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/23
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XV'. Notes taken from a number of publications including Welch's 'History of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers in the City of London' and Waters' 'Severn Stream'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/24
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XVI'. Notes taken from a number of publications including Davies' 'A Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining'and Greenly's 'The Geology of Anglesey'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/25
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XVII'. Notes taken from Scott's 'The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-stock Companies to 1720'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/26
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XVIII'. Notes taken from a number of publications including Hamilton's 'The English Brass and Copper Industries to 1800'Jones' 'The Tinplate Industry'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/27
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XIX'. Notes taken from a number of Historical Manuscripts Commission Reports, including 'The Municipal Records of Shrewsbury' and 'The records of the Corporation of Gloucester'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/28
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XX'. Notes taken from deeds [at the NLW?]

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/29
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XXI UCNW Mss'. Notes taken from manuscripts at the University College of North Wales, Bangor'. A separate notebook inserted into the main book provides a bibliograpy of publications relating to lead mining.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/30
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XXII'. Notes taken from a number of publications including Beynon's 'The Leadmining Industry in Cardiganshire 1700-1830' and Williams' 'Ancient and Modern Denbigh'.Paginated'

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/31
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XXIII'. Notes taken from a number of publications including Williams' 'River Navigations in England 1600-1750' and Haylitt's 'The Livery Companies of the City of London'.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/32
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead XXIV’. Notes taken from a variety of publications, including Hall’s ‘A History of the Custom Revenue in England’ and Unwin’s ‘Industrial Organisation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/33
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘Lead XXV’. Research notes taken from a variety of publications including Black’s ‘Guide to English Commercial Statistics’ and Newton’s ‘The Establishment of the Great Farm of the English Customs’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/34
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Lead XXVI: Smuggling Williams, Contraband Cargoes’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes taken from various publications relating to mining. Including Neville Williams’ ‘Contraband Cargoes: Seven Centres of Smuggling’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/35
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled 'Lead XXVII'. Research notes relating to lead mining, taken from a number of publications including a Calendar of Treasury Books and Calendar of Treasury Papers at the Public Record Office.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/36
TITLE: Manuscript entitled ‘Lead Mining in Wales’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Full copy of E R D Prosser’s manuscript concerning the historical, geographical, and economical impact of lead mining in Wales. Some annotations.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/37
TITLE: Spreadsheets detailing the output? of mines in Wales
DATE: nd 1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Bound in one volume. Sheets give name and location of mine, what was mined, and the volume? of what was mined. Covers the period c1850-1870.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/38
TITLE: Spreadsheets detailing the output? of mines in Wales
DATE: nd 1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Sheets give name and location of mine, what was mined, and the volume? of what was mined. Covers the period c1850-1870.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/39
TITLE: Untitled notebook
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Beginning of an essay on the history of lead mining, probably written by Prosser. Only consists of a couple of paragraphs.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/40
TITLE: Manuscript entitled ‘Part I. The Physical Endowment’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Part one of a manuscript by E R D Prosser concerning lead mining in Wales. The manuscript is a re-working of Prosser’s essay ‘The History of Lead Mining in Wales’ which won the Beatrice Grenfell prize at the 1951 Eisteddfod.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/41
TITLE: Manuscript entitled ‘Part II. The Vicissitudes of Exploitation’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Part two of a manuscript by E R D Prosser concerning lead mining in Wales. The manuscript is a re-working of Prosser’s essay ‘The History of Lead Mining in Wales’ which won the Beatrice Grenfell prize at the 1951 Eisteddfod.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/42
TITLE: ‘Map Tracing Book’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Pencil tracings of maps showing river navigations, pewterers, Bristol trade, goldsmiths, and leaden fonts in England and Wales.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/43
TITLE: Spreadsheets detailing the output? of mines in Wales
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Gives name and location of mine amount and the amount? and type of material mined between 1840 and 1860.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/44
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘1. Old Pewter Cotterell 2. ‘English Goldsmiths’ Jackson’
DATE: nd [1950/60s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes on lead mining taken from Cotterell and Jackson’s publications.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/45
TITLE: Untitled notebook of printed maps
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Annotated by [Prosser’s?] hand showing mining output in England and Wales (no date), industrial works in Wales c1891, the trading posts of Norse traders in the middle ages in south Wales, and Scandinavian influence in south Wales.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/46a and b
TITLE: Research notes relating to a history of mining
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a number of publications, including Pounds’ ‘German Miners in Elizabethan Cornwall’ and Clow’s ‘The Chemical Revolution’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/47
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes and relating to mining taken from Hunt’s ‘Mem[oirs of] Geol[ogical] Survey: Mineral Statistics on the UK [for 1858]’. Only the first few pages of the notebook have been filled.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/48
TITLE: Papers relating to etymology of words associated with lead mining
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 bundle
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes and correspondence relating to Prosser’s work on the history of lead mining in Wales.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/49
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘A1’. Research notes taken concerning mining, in particular in the South West of England and Wales, taken from a number of publications and calendars. Paginated.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/50
TITLE: Research notebook
DATE: nd [1960s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook entitled ‘The Cardiganshire Mines’. Tables giving the name of the mine and output? in 1856. Columns not labelled.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/51
TITLE: Notes taken from manuscripts at the NLW
DATE: nd [1960/70s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Research notes relating to mining in Wales.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/52
TITLE: ‘Map Tracing Book’
DATE: nd 1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Maps showing location of mines in Esgairhir, Esgairfraith, Blaenceulan, Penpontpren, Copper Hill Cwmystwyth, and Geufron and Nant y Ricket. Tracings are probably taken from a publication, although this is not identified.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/53
TITLE: Research notes relating to mining in Pembrokeshire
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 folder
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Maps and notes taken from various publications and manuscripts. Originally in folder entitled ‘Pembrokeshire Mines’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/54
TITLE: Research relating to ‘Llanbadarn Lead Mine in the Middle Ages’
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes, map tracings, and extracts of an article concerning lead mining at Llanbadarn Fawr. Originally in folder entitled ‘Llanbadarn Lead Mine in the Middles Ages’.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/55
TITLE: Notebook entitled ‘Mineral Lodes’
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Map tracings taken from the Ordnance Survey Geological Survey c. 1850s. Areas covered include Tregaron, Machynlleth, Harlech, Montgomery, and Llangollen.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/56
TITLE: Map book
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notebook comprising a number of pre-printed annotated maps showing [migration/emigration to/from Wales?] and details of lead mines 1841-1911.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PRO/B1/57
TITLE: Research notes relating to lead mining in Cardiganshire
DATE: nd [1970s]
EXTENT: 1 document
LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Item
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Notes taken from a publication by O T Jones entitled ‘Lead and Zinc: The Mining District of North Cardiganshire and West Montgomeryshire’.