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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25541	An answer to a paper published by one Bateman against the mine-adventure by a new adventurer.	New adventurer.	1698 (1698)	Wing A3333; ESTC R29592	14,240	6

spent his time in viewing and advising about the cutting of Tridole Pill a ridiculous Project which would have cost a great deal of Money to no purpose for the Sea would have filled it up again with Sand c. as soon as finished and afterwards about viewing the Mills and surveying Ground for Building of Huts c. but was really in and upon this Mountain not above three or four Hours as several Witnesses can testify And whilst he was there he sufficiently discovered to all the Company how little he was acquainted with a Mine for when Mr. Waller had shewed him the several Veins and particularly the Bog-Vein out of which was then rais'd about 200 Tun of Oar and of which he says not one word and shewed him another place where the same Vein appeared again at a great distance He staid till Mr. Waller was gone out of Hearing as he thought and then calls to the Workman he brought with him and asked him is this a Vein I God knows says the Miner and a large Vein too Don't you see it before your Eyes But alas Mr. Bateman had seen the Veins so deep in the North that he did not understand a Vein so near the Surface of the Ground tho' he saw it and whereas he desires an Affidavit expressing that he was never under-ground there is no Body ever said so but the Postscript says he was never employed under-ground but only as Clerk to a Lead-work Now there is a great difference between being employed as a Grow-Steward in directing the Works under-ground and being employed as a Clerk in keeping the Accounts above-ground and this he knows well enough but that he has a particular way with him of making Observations which are nothing to the purpose And now I desire to know where the mark ought to be placed upon this Project or upon his Fore-head and who those Persons are that have Fiction for their Foundation whether they that have made Proof of the matters of Fact or they who have made none they who assert notorious Falsities contrary to their own Letters or they whose Words and Actions agree together I appeal to every disinterested Person whether there is any thing like Anger or Satyr in all Sir H. M's Papers but as in all other Cases of the Million-Lottery and the like Abstracts were made of the Act of Parliament for conveniency of Postage and farther Explanation of the Undertaking so in this Two Settlements were required to be Executed and then Abstracts of those Settlements were absolutely necessary to be Printed and the World had been troubled with no more but that Objections raised by this Bateman and others compelled the same Author to give an Answer to them and also to Print Affidavits and other Proofs of the matters of Fact and this he calls haranguing Men into a good Opinion of the Mine But what can give a greater Demonstration of the Fair●●ss of this Undertaking then all these Proceedings The Books for taking Subscriptions were opened the 3d of October and shut up in 3 days whereas most Persons believe that if they had been kept open three days longer the Books had been full and this was done to give the World more time to be satisfied and fully informed and then at the time appointed on the 2d of Nov. the Books were opened again at which time there was so great a Crowd that it is well known that a Noble Lord and several other Persons of Quality were forced to wait a long time before they could get to the Books and when all was Subscribed to Five or Six thousand Pounds which was done in 3 days more the Books were shut up again purely out of respect to those Gentlemen that were then in the Country and not come up to Town for the Undertakers being entirely satisfied of the great Advantages that would in all humane probability accrew to all the Adventurers were so far from doing it in a fit and spurt as Mr. Bateman will have it that they several times adjourned the days of Subscriptions to give all Persons more time to be fully informed in the matter and those that will look over the Books will find several Persons of great Judgment and Knowledge in Mineral Works who have Subscribed several times one after another as they had time and leisure to be more fully informed And it is well know that Sir Th. and H. M. has several times at the General Meeting ●fered that in case any persons were dissatisfied in the Undertaking Sir Th. and Sir H. were willing to return back their Money which 〈◊〉 S●●scribers were so far from accepting that they immediately made an Order to the contrary And yet this Gent. who they never had the honour to see an their Lives is pleased not only to abuse the old Partners but all the Subscribers too as if all those Honourable Persons who upon 〈◊〉 Deliberation and full Inquiry into the matter of Fact have engaged in this Undertaking as well for the publick good of the whole Kingdom as their own particular advantage were all 〈◊〉 Company of meer 〈◊〉 acting in a Fit or Spurt of meer Credulity and Inconsideration If such a Person as this be Co●●●enanc'd I cann't tell 〈…〉 Ho●●●● and Reputation