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A51786 The liberties and cvstomes of the lead-mines within the wapentake of Wirksworth in the county of Derby part thereof appearing by extracts from the bundels of the exchequer and inquisitions taken in the XVIth year of the reign of King Edward the first and in other kings reigns and continued ever since / composed in meeter by Edward Manlove Esq. ... Manlove, Edward, fl. 1667. 1653 (1653) Wing M453; ESTC R13751 5,787 12

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4 Ph. Ma. Ar. 30 33. To punish Miners that transgress the Law To Curb Offenders and to keep in awe Such as be Cavers or do rob mens Coes Such as be pilferers or do steal mens stows To order grovers make them pay their part Joyn with their fellows or their grove desert To fine such miners as mens groves abuse And such as orders to observe refuse Or work their meers beyond their length and stake 3 4 Ph. Ma. Ar. 31. Or otherwise abuse the Mine and Rake Or set their stowes upon their neighbours ground Against the Custom or exceed their bound Or Purchasers that Miners from their way 3 4 Ph. Ma. Ar. 4 5. To their Wash-troughs do either stop or stay Or digg or delve in any mans Bing-place 3 4 Ph. Ma Art 4 5. 16 Ed. 1. c. 2. Or do his stows throw off break or deface To fine offenders that do break the peace Or shed mens bloud or any tumults raise Or weapons bear upon the Mine or Rake Or that possessions forcibly do take 3 4 Ph. Ma. ar 28. Or that disturb the Court the Court may fine For their contempts by custom of the Mine And likewise such as dispossessed be And yet set stowes against authority Or open leave their Shafts or groves or holes By which men lose their Cattel sheep or soles And to lay pains that grievance be redress'd To ease the burdens of poor men oppress'd To swear Barghmasters that they faithfully Perform their duties on the Minery And make arrests and eke impartially Impannel Jurors causes for to try And see that right be done from time to time Both to the Lord and Farmers on the Mine To swear a Jury for a half years time By Custom call'd the Body of the Mine Who Miners are and Custom understand And by the Custom they have some command They may view groves when Miners do complain Relieve the wronged wrong-doers restrain They may view Trespass done in any grove Value the Trespass Trespassers remove They may lay pains that workmanship be made And fines impose if they be not obey'd They may cause open'd Drifts and Sumps to see If any one by other wronged be When strife doth rise in groves the Miners all These four and Twenty Miners use to call To make inquiry and to view the Rake To plum and dyal if beyond the stake A meer be wrought and Miners wronged be For by that art they make discovery The Steward ought a Three weeks Court withall To keep at Wirksworth ● ● 4. Ph. Ma. ar 19.3 4. Ph. Ma. ar 29. in the Barghmoot hall For hearing Causes after the arrests And doing right to them that be opprest And if the Barghmaster make an arrest The Steward may at the Plaintiffs request Appoint a Court for trial on the Rake Within Ten days that th' Jury view may take And for attendance there 3 4. Ph. Ma ar 8. the Steward he By Mineral Custom hath a Noble fee Four shillings to the Jury must be paid Who for that cause were summon'd and array'd And if a verdict be for th' Plaintiff found The Barghmaster delivers him the ground And if the adverse party him resist The four and Twenty ought him to assist Then may he work by Custom without let Till the Defendant do a Verdict get 3 Ed. 6. Ar. 13. Then the Barghmaster ought to do him right Him to restore unto his antient plight But if three Verdicts for the Plaintiff's found By Custom the Defendants all are bound So if three Verdicts with Defendants go The Plaintiffs are by Custom bound also And neither side may make a new arrest For the same title that was in Contest But yet the Dutchie Court if just cause be May yield relief against those Verdicts three Or by Injunction parties all injoyn From getting Oar in such a meer or Mine Until the cause be heard and there appear A title just for them that worked there Or may appoint a Steward that may try The Cause again upon the Minery And may sequester any such Lead mine Until the title shall be try'd again And if the Plaintiff chance non-sute to be 3 4 Ph. Ma Ar. 8 29. He payes a Noble for a penalty For which by Custom Barghmasters distrain The party non-sute that must pay the pein No Miners Timber Pick or lawfull Stows 3 4 Ph. Ma. Ar. 10. May be removed from their ground or Coes If by mischance a Miner damped be Or on the Mine be slain by Chance-medley 16 Ed. 1. c. 1 Ar. 12. 3 4 Ph. Ma. Ar. 21. The Barghmaster or else his Deputie Must View the Corps before it buried be And take inquest by Iury who shall try By what mischance the Miner there did die No Coroner or Eschetor aught may do Nor of dead bodies may not take their view For stealing oar twice from the Minery 16 Ed. 1. c. 2 The Thief that 's taken fined twice shall be But the third time that he commits such theft Shall have a Knife struck through his hand to th'haft Into the Stow and there till death shall stand Or loose himself by Cutting loose his hand And shall forswear the franchise of the Mine And always lose his freedom from that time 3 4 Ph. Ma. No Miner ought of an old man to set To seek a Lead-mine or Lead oar to get Untill the Burghmaster a view hath taken And find such work an old work quite forsaken With him two of the body of the Mine To take such view by Custom ought to joyn Which being done the Miner may go on To sink and free his meer the Lord hath none If oar be found the fruit of his desire And woughs be strete the Miner then may fire Yet not at all times of his own accord But at such times as Custom doth afford In th' afternoon and after four a clock He may make fire on the Ragged Rock But first he must give notice lest the smoak In other groves his fellow Miners Choak And after notice if they careless be And lose their lives the firers shall go free If Miners groves arrested be 3 Ed. 6. Ar. 17.3 4 Ph. Ma. Ar. 24. yet they Go on and work the arrest must make no stay But for oar got before the tryal be The Barghmaster must take security And at next Court all parties do appear And the arrest must be returned there And then and there the Cause must tryed be Before the Seward of the Minery Most of the Customes of the Lead-mines here I have describ'd as they are used there But many words of art you still may seek The Miners Tearms are like to Heathen Greek Both strange and uncoth if you some would see Read these rough verses here Compos'd by me BUnnings Polings Stemples Forks and Slyder Stoprice Yokings Soletrees Roach and Ryder Water holes Wind holes Veyns Coe-shafts and Woughs Main Rakes Cross Rakes Brown-henns Budles and Soughs Break-offs and Buckers Randum of the Rake Freeing and Chasing of the Stole to th'Stake Starting of oar Smilting and driving drifts Primgaps Roof works Flat-works Pipe-works Shifts Cauke Sparr Lid-stones Twitches Daulings and Pees Fell Bous and Knock-barke Forstid-oar and Tees Bing-place Barmoot Court Barghmaster and Stowes Crosses Holes Hange-benches Turntree and Coes Founder-meers Taker-meers Lot Cope and Sumps Stickings and Stringes of oar Wash-oar and Pumps Corfes Clivies Deads Meers Groves Rake-soil the Gange Binge-oar a Spindle a Lampturn a Fange Fleaks Knocking 's Coestid Trunks and Sparks of oar Sole of the Rake Smytham and many more This have I written for the Miners sake That Miners are in Wirksworth Wapentake Perchance if these few lines accepted be An exposition may be made by me Of Mineral Tearms to most men now abstruse Which by expounding may be of more use But for the present I commit to view This little book the Mineral Law to shew Which antient Custom hath confirm'd to them That Miners are and poor laborious men And much desire this Custom to present Unto the worthies of the Parliament And humbly pray that they for justice sake Will them confirm in Wirksworth Wapentake Good Reader spare me if I thee offend With this strang Custom which I here have pend But Miner read me take me for thy friend Stand to thy Custom thus my Poems end FINIS