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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44605	Royal institutions being proposals for articles to establish and confirm laws, liberties, & customs of silver & gold mines, to all the king's subjects, in such parts of Africa and America, which are now (or shall be) annexed to, and dependant on the crown of England : with rules, laws and methods of mining and getting precious stones, the working and making of salt-petre, and also, the digging and getting of lead, tin, copper, and quick-silver oars [sic] ... / by Thomas Houghton ...; Royal institutions	Houghton, Thomas, Gent.	1694 (1694)	Wing H2935; ESTC R8964	13,512	140

Method and Progress of Digging Working and Carrying on of Mines from the first Beginning or Breaking of Ground to the Melting Refining and Making the Oars into Metal shall be clearly Taught and Described together with all the Work-Tools Instruments and Materials Used in and about the Mines As also what Incidents or Accidents Prejudicial or Profitable hath doth and may attend the same as far as Art or Nature hath Discovered these things to Humane Reason In all which I may say without Boasting I have had long Experience and am as capable to Acquaint Posterity with as any Person extant having for Six and Twenty Years past been universally concerned in Mines in all or most of the Mineral Countries of England not only as a Partner Master or Owner of them but in the Practick Part of their Workman-ship from the Beginning to the End In which Book I will describe the Method of these Buddles and Landers for Hushing and the most proper Way of taking up and gathering of Gold with many Useful and Beneficial Directions and Instructions in and about the Mines and Mineral Countries of England and other Places shall be fully set out and described In the Interim If this small Book should fall into the Hands of any Detractors who through Ignorance or Envy shall exclaim against any thing herein mentioned or hereby intended I shall only give such Persons this modest Reproof Quis nisi mentis inops oblatum respuat aurum and he may well be reckoned a weak Man if not a Fool that will censure slight or condemn any thing in which he never acquired sufficient Knowledge to be a competent and fit Judge Gentlemen I would not have You or any of You think or believe that Gold and Silver or the Oars of any other Metals lyes in the Earth in such Plenty or in such a Manner as to discover themselves to every vulgar or unskillful Eye however it is certain There is great Plenty and many Rich Veyns to be Found in the English Territories for what I have mentioned before concerning a Plate-Fleet coming Yearly into England if Liberty and fit Encouragement be given I will Undertake to Effect and Perform it And if any of You desires further Information in this Affair I am ready to Acquaint You with it when You Command me and to Shew You how where and by what Ways and Means the same may be Effected so that if Liberty and Encouragement may be given I doubt not but to have Five Hundred Miners at Work in Two Years Time by which with some Negroes and other Persons that I will Cause to be brought to them in Two Years Time more I question not but to make the Mines flourish to a greater Degree than I shall now Speak of To Conclude All that I seek herein is That the King 's most Excellent Majesty and this August Assembly of Parliament would be Graciously Pleased if in their great Wisdom it may be thought fit to take away and remove all those Obstructions which hitherto have Ruined this Honourable Enterprize and that for the Future they would Settle and Confirm either the afore-going ARTICLES or some other Fundamental LAWS and CUSTOMS for the Mines before-mentioned whereby all Free-Born Subjects of the CROWN of England may have Liberty and full Power of Using their Endeavours to improve their own Interests together with the Revenues of the CROWN Which is the most Humble Desire and Petition of a Well-Wisher to his KING and Countrey Thom. Houghton FINIS

for the first Finders or Owners of those Rakes and Veyns to Hold Work and Enjoy the same all the Product thereof that shall be got within the Compass and Bounds of those Rakes or Veyns without any Disturbance or Hindrance from or by the Owners or Masters of the Flat-Works because such Rakes and Veyns lye in the Earth after another Manner and Nature quite different to Flat-Works and are Separate Things And so successively every one in the same Rakes or Veyns according to his or their Taking and Possessing with Stowes sooner or later shall be served Hold and Enjoy the Meers of Ground so Taken and Possest in those Rakes and Veyns And if there be no Veyns or Rakes Found within that Compass of Ground so Taken and Possest for Flat-Work but the Flat-Work shall continue and extend it self bearing Gold or the Oars of any other Metal further and beyond the Limits of the Ground so Possest with Stowes as afore-said for Flat-Works That then the first and next Taker Possessor and Stower of the next adjoyning Ground shall Hold and Enjoy as many Meers of Ground each Meer containing Twenty Nine Yards of Square Ground upon the Superficies as he or they have Taken and Set on Stowes for the same Flat-Work within the Time afore-said and so successively every other Person or Persons shall be served sooner or later according to his or their Taking Possessing and Stowing up of the same Flat-Work be it in Gold Mines or in Seams and Beds of Salt-Petre or Precious Stones lying in the Earth Soyl or Rocks in Flat-Works as afore-said or any other Metal and Oars lying in the same manner whatsoever Art X. THAT where any Oars shall be got made and run into Copper Lead Tin or Quick-Silver all and every Part of those Metals that shall be used and spent in the Countrey where they are got shall Pay no other Duty to the KING but only that before-mentioned for the Reason of giving the Inhabitants and Adventurers all the Encouragement that may be to Work the Mines and to Carry on the Field But if the Finders Getters or Owners thereof or any other Person shall have a mind and finds it for his or their Benefit and Advantage to Transport and Ship them or any of them from the Countries where they are got to other Places beyond the Seas he or they that Ships them shall Pay for every Tunn of Copper so Shipt Twenty Shillings to the KING's Officer for the Use of the KING and the same Sum of Twenty Shillings the Tunn for Salt-Petre and Tin and Five Pounds for every Tunn of Quick-Silver so Shipt off and Transported from the Countries where they are got For the Payment of which Duties and the Twelfth Part or Caract of all Precious Stones as afore-said All Diggers Finders Owners Buyers Adventurers or Dealers therein or in any of them shall have free Liberty to Sell Ship and Transport them to any Part or Place whatsoever to the best of his or their Advantage The End of the Articles ALL which Methods Rules and Articles that they and every of them may be Enacted Established and Confirmed by the King 's most Excellent Majesty and this present Parliament now Assembled as LAWS and CUSTOMS hereafter to be Practised Used and Observed by all the Subjects of the Crown of England in all Parts of Africa and America for the Discovering Working and Carrying on any of the Mines before-mentioned when and where they or any of them shall be Found is the most Humble Petition and Request of a well-Wisher to the Nation 's Interest T. H. Postscript TO THE LORDS Spiritual and Temporal Together with the COMMONS Assembled in this present PARLIAMENT Gentlemen IT is Worth your Thoughts Considerations to Enquire into the Reasons and Causes Why no English King Prince Noble-Man Merchant nor any other Person of Heroick Spirit should not in all this Time since America hath been Discovered endeavour to be Master of Silver and Gold Mines as well as the Spaniards there being in many Places of America now in the Hands of the English as Rich and as Plentiful Veyns and Mines to be Found as any the Spaniards have in Peru or New-Spain But one Reason of this Misfortune I believe to be this He that hath had Substance to have undertaken this Enterprise hath wanted Skill and durst not Trust another with a small Stock out of Sight nor would not go himself with such as had Judgment therein Or He that hath had Skill hath wanted Money and Encouragement to Manage and Carry on this Affair and so could not undertake it for want of a Stock and as yet no Person hath Petitioned any KING or PRINCE about it However it is plain and too true the Mines have been Neglected which one would think since all the Kings Princes Grandees and Persons of Estates in Europe have known That for 150 Years last past the Spaniards have imported at Cales from Ten to Forty Millions a Year in Silver and Gold besides many Precious Stones and other Rich Commodities of great Value The Knowledge of which one would imagine should have strongly induced some other Prince or Heroick Spirited Men to have used all their Endeavours to have Found and Discovered such Mines and have given them sufficient Cause to have pursued the same by sending such Persons about this Affair as well Understandeth such Things But the chief Reason and Mischief that these Mines have layn so long Neglected is Because a few PROPRIETORS as is before recited in the PREFACE having together with the Land got Grants from the Crown of the Royalties where Mines and Mineral Countries are and not using any effectual Means to Discover the Mines themselves at their Charge the Enterprise hath remained intricate and no ways feasable to Others by Reason of those Grants all other Persons being prohibited to engage therein For to what purpose shall a Man spend his Time Labour and Money to Enrich Others by Seeking for That which when he hath found neither He nor his Heirs shall Enjoy nor any part thereof To Engage in this would be perfect Madness This is the chief Reason why the English are not Masters of Silver and Gold Mines as well as the Spaniards and not the want of such Mines being within the English Territories and Dominions for if this Sore was once Cured The English would have a Plate-Fleet in a few Years Arrive in England as well as the Flota doth in Spain How great the Loss of which hath been and is and how Acceptable and Profitable the Discovering of such Mines and an Arrival of a Plate-Fleet Yearly in England would be I leave every one to Judge that knows the Use and Service of Silver and Gold And the Cause and Causes why there are no such Mines Wrought in America but what are Wrought by the Spaniards are only the Reasons afore-said concerning which I hope I have said sufficient and that some better Care will be taken