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GAVELLER

An officer of the English crown having the general management of the mines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Briavers, subject, in some respects, to the control of the commissioners of woods and forests. He grants gales to free miners in their proper order, accepts surrenders of gales, and keeps the registers required by the acts. There is a deputy-gaveller, who appears to exercise most of the gaveller’s functions. Sweet.

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