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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30705	A just and true remonstrance of His Maiesties mines-royall in the principality of Wales presented by Thomas Bushell, Esquire, farmer of the said mines-royall to His Majestie.	Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6245; ESTC R30878	13,135	37

suite therefore is that you would bee pleased out of all these weighty considerations and beneficiall consequences tending so much to your Honour Crowne and Dignity and good of the Common-wealth to grant Your Majesties Commission if it may bee thought fit by the advise of Your High and Honourable Court of Parliament for the choosing of such severall persons out of the prisons in this your Kingdome as are and shall be condemned for small offences and of able serviceable bodies by the approbation of Your Judges and shall implore Your Majesties mercy to bee imployed by your said subject in the Works of your Mines-Royall they giving security for their good behaviour with such limitation of time and allowance for their sustentation as to Your Majesties said High Court of Parliament shall be thought fit that by their dutifull and laborious performance therein they may afterwards come into the happinesse of your Majesties pardon of Grace for their former offences And your Petitioner shall ever rest c. To the Kings most excellent MAIESTY Most Gracious SOVERAIGNE THE Loyalty of my faithfull service will not suffer me to conceale a bequeathed Legacy to your Majesty by the last Will and Testament of your most Loyall Subject IOHN Bishop of Worcester lately deceased of a treasure discovered by him and committed to my trust for the revealing thereof to your Majesty Who perceiving the inclination and affection I had to Mynes and Mineralls much commending it as the most honest gaine and greatest good to a Common-wealth began this ensuing discourse unto me Mr. BVSHELL YOur owne eyes see how neare I am to the dwelling of death by my gray hayres which are the true Records of fourescore and foureteene yeares of age next my limbs which have no more strength then those that are lap't in the Sepulchre of their winding-sheet only my intellectuall parts are yet preserved to ascribe God the glory and to disclose the secrets of two rich Mines the one holding some quantity of Gold worth the Extracting the other in Silver worth the Refining to your trust and fidelity with a confidence that your charity cannot conceive me guilty of betraying your judgement with an imaginary treasure when my soule and body are so neare the approach of death as I must suddainly give an account in the other world besides I have taken upon me the calling of a spirituall profession And have this day received the Sacrament as a pledge of my redemption which I trust are sufficient motives to beleeve truth from a dying mans tongue who hath no other end then that the hopefullnes of such riches may not be buried by my dissolution but that the honour and profit thereof might redownd to his Majesty and his Royall posterity as a living and loyall remembrance of his Princely favours to me and mine And thereupon he did enjoyn me upon the integrity of my allegiance to consecrate the first fruits of my labours therein as his discovery and service to your sacred selfe and thus having made a true relation of his discourse to me I leave it to your Majesties wisdome to approve or dislike Your MAIESTIES most humble Servant THOMAS BVSHELL To the most Illustrious PRINCE CHARLES Prince of Wales Most High and Mighty PRINCE AS the smaller Rivulets by their naturall motions make haste to pay their tribute unto the vast Ocean as well as doe the greatest rivers So come I with humble assurance that your Highnesse will not despise this poore present extracted out of your Welsh Mines wishing the coyne could speak that language of Ophir as it doth this of Cardigan wherein I trust by Divine Providence and your Princely prevailing with the most honourable Court of Parliament for the confirmation thereof I doubt not but that in processe of time I shall be able with the assistance of my Coadventurers and helpe of their greater purse and fortunes to make these Brittish hills as in scituation so in esteeme too resemble the West Indies or at least wise those renowned mines of Saxony Thus I most humbly take leave of your Highnesse hoping your Princely goodnesse will pardon my presuming to present so great a Prince with so poore a present as doth in all humblenesse Your Highnesse devoted Be●dsman THOMAS BVSHELL To our dread Soveraigne Lord The KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY May it please your Majesty WEE doe most humbly and thankfully acknowledge that by Your Majesties vouchsafing to this your Principality the trust of a branch of Your Royall Mint is an honour that neither our Ancestors nor our selves durst wish for and we doe as humbly and as thankfully acknowledge and confesse that by it you have not onely honoured us more then any of Your Royall predecessors but you have thereby offered us the means to enrich our selves to the making of us happier then our fathers in freeing us from the cares and feares that hindred us from driving into these Mountaines that promise a masse of treasure For be pleased to know that before Your Majesty vouchsafed unto us this great favour we were fearefull to adventure far into the mountaines because wee had far to send before wee could make the silver currant that wee should at charge recover Nor was our care of carriage and recarriage the least hinderance to our proceedings from all which by Your Majesties goodnesse and the endeavours of Your industrious and faithfull servant Thomas Bushell we are happily freed for which favour we whose names are hereunto subscribed in the behalfe of all the inhabitants of this your Principality of WALES doe render all humble and hearty thanks and for them and our selves doe hereby promise to Your sacred Majesty that we will doe our utmost endeavours to finde out that measure which we beleeve God and Nature from the Creation hath preserved for Your Majesties use that thereby wee may approve our selves Your Majesties loyall and most obedient Subjects and humble Servants Thomas Milward Knight Chiefe Iustice of Chester Marmaduke LLoyd Knight Richard Price K. Baronet James Price Knight Sampson Eure Knight Iohn Lewis Knight Timothy Turnor Esquire I. Littleton Esq Walter LLoyd Esq Thomas Price Esq Robert Corbet Esq Evan Gwin Esq Morgan Herbert Esq Iohn Vaughan Esq Vincent Corbet Esq Humfrey Greene Esq Iohn LLoyd Esq David LLoyd ap Reighnald Esq Thomas Phillips Esq Iohn Edmund Esq Hugh LLoyd Gentlem. David Rees Gent. Iohn Bowen Gent. William Watkin Gent. Iohn Meredith Gent. Iames Kegitt Gent. A Certificate from the Miners presented to the Right Honourable the Lords and other of his Majesties most Honourable Privy COVNCELL May it please your Lordships ACCORDING to your commands We whose names are under written being Miners Smelters Refiners Carryers Washers and Monyers belonging to his Majesties Mines Royall in the County of Cardigan in all humility doe certifie of our certain knowledge and experience concerning the new workes lately discovered by Gods providence to Thomas Bushell Esquire Farmer of his Majesties Mines-Royall in these parts that the said Master