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"ref": "1665, Dud Dudley, Dud Dudley's Metallum Martis: Or, Iron Made with Pit-coale, Sea-coale, &c: And with the Same Fuell to Melt and Fine Imperfect Mettals, and Refine Perfect Mettals, page 23:",
"text": "[…] the slagge of Iron to melt and purify Iron Ewre for which also Lyme and ashes of wood, and dust of char-coale, are used; and for small trialls, arsnicke, sulpher, vitriol, tartar, salt-gemme, salt-niter, and stybrum […]",
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"text": "Basyns and Ewres. First, 2 gilt basyns […] Itm, 4 ewres of siluer, with lyke tokens on the lyddes, […]"
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