Chapter IV
Andrew Yarranton
A forgotten patriotThe Yarranton familyAndrew Yarranton’s early lifeA soldier under the ParliamentBegins iron worksIs seized and imprisonedHis plans for improving internal navigationImprovements in agricultureManufacture of tin plateHis journey into Saxony to learn itTravels in HollandHis views of trade and industryHis various projectsHis ‘England’s Improvement by Sea and Land’His proposed Land BankHis proposed Registry of Real EstateHis controversiesHis iron-miningValue of his labours