Obscure Later History
Subsequent references to the two companies are to them separately.
The Mineral and Battery is recorded as mining in Ireland in 1741. It may also have had a copper battery work at (or near) Rogerstone near Newport. It is also recorded
A company called Mines Royal, which may (or may not) have been the same, had a copper works at Neath Abbey in Glamorgan from 1757.
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