'Huntingdon Beaumont. Pioneer and mining adventurer' in A W A White, Men and Mining in Warwickshire. A short account of six ventures in coal mining between Coventry and Nuneaton and the market which they sought to exploit during the period 1595 to 1800

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Author(s) White, A W A
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1970
Pages pp12-19
Publisher Historical Association, Coventry Branch
Place Published Coventry

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Deals with the early mining activities between Bedworth and Coventry (Griff and Coton) of Huntingdon Beaumont, bc1560, and his brothers, particularly in relation to those of the Willoughby family; the extension of his mining interests to neighbouring counties; his failure and imprisonment for debt