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English Industries of the Middle Ages

Note 55 — Chapter I · MINING—COAL

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Galloway (op. cit., 113-14) gives a late sixteenth-century case in Wakefield, where the 'heads, pillars, and other works ... for bearing up the ground' being cut away, the ground suddenly fell in.

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