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The Queen's Gunstonemaker: An account of Ralph Hogge, Elizabethan Ironmaster & Gunfounder, by Edmund Teesdale, published 1 July 1984 (130 pp., Seaford: Lindel Publishing Co., ISBN-10: 0950235474 & ISBN-13: 9780950235479) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502223] & East Sussex Libraries

The 1574 Lists of Ironworks in the Weald. A Re-examination, by Edmund Teesdale, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, pp.7-41, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

The documents often referred to as 'the 1574 lists' constitute the most extensive and important collection of evidence available as to the size of the Wealden iron industry in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, and as to the ownership, management and location of individual furnaces and forges at that time. The lists consist of a number of documents, all to be found in the State Papers Domestic of Elizabeth I, with the exception of one document of three folios to be found among the Stow manuscripts in the British Library. Several of the documents are, apart from the spelling, so similar in content as to leave no doubt that they are no more than copies. Others reveal significant differences, differences as to personal ownership or management, and the number of works or sites attributed to each individual. These documents have, from time to time, received comment by writers on the Wealden iron industry, but none of the studies made, although helpful in many ways, has been entirely without some confusion or imprecision. The present paper is a fresh attempt to describe, analyse, compare and evaluate the documents, firstly with the object of providing a clearer and more comprehensive guide to the lists than has hitherto existed; and secondly, of reaching some conclusion as to which of the documents contains the most reliable evidence about the owners or managers and the extent of the works they held.

Gunfounding in the Weald in the Sixteenth Century, by Edmund Teesdale, published December 1991 (142 pp., Trustees of the Royal Armouries, ISBN-10: 0948092173 & ISBN-13: 9780948092176) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13026] & The Keep [LIB/502221] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This is the first study of the formative years of gunfounding in the Weald of Sussex and Kent. It looks in detail at the development of this industry and focuses on the men who developed the technology, analysing their output and success