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Dud Dudley's Metallum martis, or, Iron made with pit-coale, sea-coale, &c. and with the same fuel to melt and fine imperfect mettals and refine perfect mettals.
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Dudley, Dud, 1599-1684.
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Wing D2438; ESTC R41932
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Dud Dudley's Mettallum Martis OR IRON Made with Pit-coale Sea-coale c. And with the same Fuell to Melt and fine Imperfect Mettals and Refine perfect Mettals 〈…〉 Printed by T. M. for the Authour TO THE KINGS Most Sacred Majesty May it Please Your Majesty ALl Your Kingdoms Dominions and Territories being the happy Subjects of Your Cares are therefore the proper Objects of Your View Great Brittain O Great Brittain Your Principal Island here Humbly Presents her self unto Your Royall Presence View and Care be Pleased to interpret this her Obsequiousness to be her Duty for since Your Majesties safe Return has already Graciously dayned to View and often to review her Shipings Stores Armories Ordnance Magazins and Trade Vouchsafe Great Sir Great Brittain Your Royal Patronage and once more at some one hour or two to Grace it with Your Auspicious Aspect in this Mite with all Humility Presented By A Faithful Servant of Your Sacred Fathers And a Loyal Sufferer for Your Sacred Majesty And by Pattent-Servant Dud Dudley TO THE Honourable His Majesties Great Council The High Court of Parliament YOur Predecessors in former Ages had both serious Consultations and Considerations before they made those many Wholesom and Good Lawes for the Preservation of Wood and Timber of this Kingdome 1 Eliz. 15. 23 Eliz. 5. 27 Eliz. 19. 28 Eliz. 3. 5. in whose dayes and since in King James's Reign Ships in most Ports and Rivers of this Kingdom Thames Excepted might have been built for forty Shillings per Tunn but now they can hardly be built for treble the value wood and timber is so much decayed therefore men of War Trade of Merchants of Fishing of Navigating unto Plantations will decay if not timely prevented which is hoped will be one of Your Principallest Cares seeing our Enemies have carried Timber from England and the Iron Works have much exhausted it For the prevention of so great a Consumption almost incureable First is to put the Wholesome Laws in Execution Secondly not to permit Timber to be Exported Thirdly to animate as King James did and also Prince Henry the making of Iron in England Scotland and Wales with Pit-cole Sea-cole and Peate which if the Authour who had a Pattent for it had not been opposed after he had made much good Iron with Pit-cole it had long since by his Inventions been fully perfected The Fourth is to stop all the Exportation of Pit-cole and Sea-cole paying His Majesties Duty if the Cole be in a fit place to make Iron therewith Fifthly That the Authour or his Agents may have power to preserve many thousand Tuns of Pit-cole which are annually destroyed for ever in England Scotland and Wales which are fit to make Iron and the Authour in this Treatise hath demonstrated it being moved with pitty seeing his Native Country decaying Humbly offers but his Judgement and and leaves the grave consideration thereof to your Learned and more serious Consultations and Actings praying that you may animate good things new inventions that may bring unto His Sacred Majesty and all Loyal Subjects Safety Strength Wealth and Honour by our Ships and Men of War Fishing Navigation and Merchandizing unto Forreign Nations but more especially to and from the Territories of Great Brittain our North Indies abounding in Mines and Minerals that they that are of the Honourable Corporations of Mines Royal and Batteries or any others would lay in a Common or Joynt Stock fully to set the Mines at Work by imploying our idle and burdensom supernumerary people therein Iron Tin Lead Copper Quicksilver Silver and Gold besides many other Minerals and Marcesit's Lapis Calaminaris Antimonie Maganes c. also many Mineral Earths and Precious Stones Did I call Great Brittain our North Indies give me leave to repeat a passage till further satisfaction of King Josina of Scotland a great Phylosopher Physitian and Herbalist living before Christ 161. years at which time two venerable Phylosophers and Priests passing from Portugall to Athens their Ship and Company and Marriners all perished at Ros they only saved after refreshing and good Entertainment the King desired of them what they understood by their Science of the Nature of the Ground of Scotland after deliberate advisement said There was more Riches and Profit to be gotten within the Veins of the Earth of Scotland then above for the winning of Mines and Metals They knew this by the Influence of the Heavens This you may see in the Chronicles of Scotland My Dear Master our Sacred Martyr Charles the First of ever Blessed Memory did animate the Authour by Granting him a Pattent Anno 14 of His Reign for the making of Iron and Melting Smelting Extracting Refining and Reducing all Mines and Metals with Pit-cole Sea-cole Peat and Turf which was Extinct and Obstructed by reason of the War and had not this unnatural and unparallel'd War been His late Sacred Majesty himself had set at work many of His Mines and much good had been produced to Great Brittain before this time At present the Authour is in good hope and incessantly prayes that the Mines be set at work in his dayes by the Honourable Corporation of the Mines Royal for he verily believeth the time to be near when the Omnipotent God before he Judge the World in Fire will shew His Omnipotency unto the Nations by revealing of the wonderful and incredible things of Nature of which the Learned do believe very many to be in the Mineral Kingdome by working of Mines and Fusion of Metals gotten by honest labour under ground profitable to Man and Acceptable with God I might here speak somewhat of Superiour Planets producing Metal Saturn Lead Iupiter Tin Mars Iron but these abound in Great Brittain so do the Inferiour Planets produce Venus Copper Mercury Quicksilver Luna Silver If God permit me health and leasure from Sutes and Troubles not onely to write of them but also the manner of the Melting Extracting Refining and Reducing of them with Pit-cole Sea-cole Peat c. In the interim to let you know that Great Brittain abounds with Copper Mines much neglected yet of great use for Ordnance at Land and also at Seas and for the making of Brass with our Lapis Calaminaris so much Exported by the Dutch which doth hinder our manufactories of Brass and causes the Dutch and Swedes to raise the price of Copper and Brass ever since our small loss at Sea by the Dutch Mercury Quicksilver is not wanting but few Artists have made any Experiment of that Mine in this Kingdome Luna Silver doth abound in Great Brittain especially a very Rich Vein Rake or Fibrey thereof was wrought at Binny-Hills near Lithgo in Scotland in the Authors dayes some part of which he hath is malleable Silver in the Oare or Mine yet neglected And so are many of our richest Mines in England and Wales c. the cause is conceived to be the want of a general and joynt-stock for the imploying our idle people in getting and working