NAME OF IRON Half-year Half-year Total. Half-year Half-year Total. MINE. ended Mid ended ended Mid ended Summer 1864. Christmas Summer 1865. Christmas 1864. 1865. Perseverance 5,199 4,217 9,416 5,742 7,126 12,868 and Findall New China 123 66 189 240 170 410 Level New Dun Pit 1,255 985 2,190 ... ... ... Buckshraft 21,400 18,370 39,770 22,245 23,882 46,127 Tingle's Mine 548 ... 548 ... 405 405 Level Crow's Nest 1,893 2,975 4,868 ... ... ... Old Ham 514 ... 514 89 456 545 Oakwood Mill 2,923 2,222 5,145 1,723 4,761 6,484 Westbury Brook 10,180 9,773 19,953 7,756 11,293 19,049 Old Sling 8,889 7,051 15,940 6,267 6,113 12,380 Easter 5,584 3,911 9,495 1,788 2,760 4,548 Yewtree 173 67 240 ... ... ... Dean's Meend 7,540 7,228 14,768 8,192 6,176 14,368 Clearwell 1,277 3,416 4,693 ... ... ... Shraves 731 364 1,095 367 186 558 Scar Pit 524 ... 524 ... ... ... Staunton ... ... ... 543 941 1,484 Wigpool ... ... ... ... 402 402 Scar Pit ... 488 488 ... ... ... Forty other gales of iron ore have been awarded to various parties, and will no doubt be shortly opened. No account of the production of iron in the Forest of Dean can be called complete which does not include some description of the "laws and privileges," the "customs and franchises" of the original operatives by whom the mine ore was obtained. As the miners themselves invariably refer to the "Book of Dennis" and the seventeen orders of their court of mine law for all authoritative information respecting their guild, or fraternity of free minership, the reader is furnished with the following summary of their contents.