| Description | "Recusant mines" was Boulton & Watt’s term for a group of Cornish mines who witheld or disputed premium payments in the 1790s, and against whom they began legal proceedings. Some of the mines were withholding premiums on Boulton & Watt engines, while others were refusing premiums due on "pirate" engines made by Jonathan Hornblower and Edward Bull.
This bundle consists of letters from mine adventurers to Thomas Wilson, Boulton & Watt’s Cornish agent. Wilson forwarded the letters to Soho for use in the preparation of the cases against the various mines. Further documents relating to these mines will be found in the other bundles of papers relating to Cornish Law Cases. |