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| | JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7TH EARL CARDIGAN - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7TH EARL CARDIGAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | , 7TH EARL 0~ (1797-1868), English lieutenant-general, son of the 6th earl of Cardigan (the title dating from 1661), was born at Hambleden, Bucks, on the 16th of October 1797. |
 | | The North Cardiganshire lead-mines, of which the Lisburne, Goginan and Cwm Ystwyth mines are the most noted, have been famous, and are said to have been worked by the Romans. |
 | | Some of the lead raised is very rich in silver, and in the 17th century so great was the amount of silver obtained that a mint for coining it was erected by virtue of letters patent at Aberystwyth. |
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