William Pryce was born in Redruth the son of Samuel, a surgeon. He became a surgeon himself, working in Redruth. He was encouraged by William Borlase to gather his notes about mining in a book. Pryce used manuscripts about the history of mining in Cornwall, his own notes and information from other people, and his Mineralogia Cornubiensis was published in 1778. In his Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, published in 1790, he collected the works of Tonkin, Hals and others, and added to them information that he had gathered by speaking to old people who claimed that they spoke the language. Price died in December 1790 and was buried in Redruth.
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