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Iron-Mining in Restoration Furness: The Case of Sir Thomas Preston—A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

C. B. Phillips
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Dr Galgano shows that the Papist Sir Thomas Preston continued his family's interest in operating their iron-mines, and points, interestingly, to the number of Papists amongst his ore customers. More importantly for historians of the iron-industry, he states (pp. 212–13) that, about 1664, Sir Thomas built a blast-furnace. Dr Galgano does not explain that this furnace would pre-date the first known ones in Cumbria (Cleator, c. 1695), and Furness (Backbarrow, 1711). Thus, Sir Thomas would be both an entrepreneur and an innovator. The question is, did Preston build a blastfurnace?

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British Catholic History , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , May 1977 , pp. 39
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1977

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1 Cleator: Schubert, H. R., History of the British Iron and Steel Industry (London, 1957), p. 371;Google Scholar Backbarrow: Fell, A., The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District (Ulverston, 1908; reprinted London, 1966), p. 208.Google Scholar

2 Lancashire County Record Office, Preston, Cavendish of Holker MSS., DDCa.

3 The two items in note 3 (p. 212) come from this manuscript.

4 Nor of any other type of iron-ore smelter; for terminology, see M. Davies-Shiel, ‘The Terminology of Early Iron-Smelting in Lakeland’, Trans. Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, N.S., 71 (1971), pp. 280–4.