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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54599	Fodinæ regales, or, The history, laws, and places of the chief mines and mineral works in England, Wales, and the English pale in Ireland as also of the mint and mony : with a clavis explaining some difficult words relating to mines, &c. / by Sir John Pettus, Knight.	Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1908; ESTC R190	70,019	132

were not as yet known or not discovered before the year after Christs Nativitie 1240. for then as a Writer of that Age recordeth was Tyn Mettal found in Germany by a certain Cornish-man driven out of his Native soile to the great loss and hindrance of Richard Earl of Cornwall This Richard began to make Ordinances for these Tyn-works and afterwards Edmund his son granted a Charter and certain Liberties and withal prescribed certain Laws concerning the same which he ratified or strengthned under his seale and imposed a Tribute or Rent upon Tyn to be answered to the Earles These Liberties The Common-wealth of Tymurs Priviledges and Laws King Edw. 3. did afterwards confirm and augment the whole Commonwealth of those Tynners and Workmen as it were in one bodie he divided into four quarters which from the places they call Foymore Blackmore Irewarnayle and Penwith Warden of the Stannaries over them all He ordained a Warden called Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Stannum that is Tin who are to give judgment as wel according to equity and conscience as Law and appointed to every quarter their Stewards who once every three weeks every one in his several Quarter ministers justice in Causes Personal between Tinner and Tinner and between Tinner and Foreiner except in Causes of Land Life or Member from whence there lieth an Appeal to the Lord Warden from him to the Duke and from him to the King in matters of moment There are by the Warden General Parlements or several Assemblies summoned whereunto Jurats are sent out of every Stannary whose Constitutions do bind them As for those who deal with Tin they are of four sorts the Owners of the Soil the Adventurers the Merchants or Regrators and the Labourers called the Spadyards of their Spade The Kings of England and Dukes of Cornwall in their times have reserved to themselves a Preemption of Tin as well in regard of the Propriety as being Chief Lords or Proprietaries as of their total Prerogative lest the Tribute of Rent imposed should be imbezelled and the Dukes of Cornwall defrauded unto whom by the old Custom for every thousand pounds weight of Tin there is paid forty Shillings It is by a Law provided that all the Tin which is cast and wrought be brought to one of the said four appointed Towns where twice in the Year it is weighed and signed with a Stamp they call it Coinage and the said Impost accordingly paid Neither is it lawful for any man before that to sell or send it abroad under Forfeiture of their Tin And not onely Tin here is found but also therewith Gold and Silver yea and Diamonds shaped and pointed Angle-wayes Cornish Diamonds smoothed also by Nature her self whereof some are as big as Walnuts and inferiour to the Orient Diamonds onely in blackness and hardness Sir John Dodderich his History of the ancient and modern Establishment of the Dutchy of Cornwall c. is almost verbatim with what Cambden hath writ concerning Tin and both of them from Carews Survey of Cornwall But all the Laws concerning Tin are fully digested in the Lord Cokes 12th Report concerning the Case of the Stanaries CHAP. XIX Concerning the Laws of the Lead Mines in Derbyshire and Mendip in Somersetshire From the Bundle of the Exchequer and the Inquisition of the Year of the Reign of King EDWARD the First 16. EDWARD by the Grace of God King of England Derby Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain to the Sheriff of the County of Derby Greeting Know ye that We have assigned Our Faithful and Well-beloved Reynold of the Ley and William of Memill to inquire by the Oaths of good and lawful men of your County by the which the truth may best be known of the Liberty which our Miners do claim to have in those parts and which they have hitherto used to have and by what means and how and from what time and by what Warrant And therefore We do command thee that a certain Day and Place which the said Reynold and William shall appoint thee thou shalt cause to come before them so many and such good and lawful Men of thy Bailiwick by the which the truth may there the best be known in the premisses by the Inquirie and that thou have there the Writ Witness Our Well-beloved Cousin Edmond Earl of Cornwall at Westminster the 28th day of April in the Year of Our Reign the 16th By William of Hambleton and at the instance of Hugh of Cressingham the Day is appointed at Ashbourne upon Saturday next after the Feast of the Holie Trinitie An Inquisition taken at Ashbourne upon Saturday next after the Holy Trinity in the Year of the Reign of EDWARD the First the 16. before Reynold of the Ley and William of Meignil of the Liberties which the Miners of the said Sovereign Lord the King in the Peake do claim to have hitherto used to have in those part by what means and how and from what time and by what Warrant By the Oath of Tho. Foliamo Will. Hawley Ralph Cotterill William of Longsden John of Tearture Clement of Ford William of Bradlow Peter of Rowland Richard of Longsden Jur William son of the Smith of Bradwall Henry Foliambic John of Longsden All Jurors 1. Who say upon their Oaths Of a new Field that in the beginning when the Miners did come to the Field seeking for a Mine and finding a Mine they do come to the Bailiff which is called Burghmaster and did desire if it were a new Field that they might have two Meers of Ground that is to say one for the finding thereof and the other by the Miners Fine viz. paying a mere Dish of his first Oar. 2. An old Work and length of a Meer And the Miners desired also in an old Work of right to be measured to the said Miners every Meer to contain four Measures and the hole of the Mine to be 7 feet wide or broad 3. The length of the Measure the King to have a 3d. Meer in a new Field And everie Measure shall be of 24 feet and the King shall have the third Meer next the Finder and the other two Meers shall be delivered to the Workman Finder of the new Mine by the Burghmaster 4. And in an old Field everie Workman demanding such Work one Meer in the Field next our Soveraign Lord the King 5. The King is to have the 13th Dish for lot And the King shall have the 13th Dish or Measure of Oar which is called Th. Lot 6. And this hath been used and for this our Sovereign Lord the King shall find unto the Miners free ingress and egress into and from their Mines For which cause Lot is paid to carrie and bear their Oar unto the Kings High way 7. The King shall have Oar giving as much as another And the Jurie do say that they are used for coming in Mines that our Soveraign Lord the King shall