CHAPTER II.

BEGINNINGS OF THE IRON-MANUFACTURER IN BRITAIN.

Iron made in the Forest of Dean in Anglo-Saxon times

Monkish iron-workers

Early iron-smelting in Yorkshire

Much iron imported from abroad

Iron manufactures of Sussex

Manufacture of cannon

Wealthy ironmasters of Sussex

Founder of the Gale family

Extensive exports of English ordnance

Destruction of timber in iron-smelting

The manufacture placed under restrictions

The Sussex furnaces blown out

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