Lead and Brass
The company licensed its right to use calamine to make brass in 1587 to a group of company members led by John Brode. They set up brass works at Isleworth, but a decade later the company obstructed them from mining calamine.
The company also engaged in litigation over lead mining in Derbyshire, which it alleged to be infringing its monopoly.
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