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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

covenant to pay unto the Queen a 10th part of all Gold Silver and Quicksilver 3. Gold And for Gold oar to pay for every 100 weight 8 pound weight of fine Gold 4. Silver And for Silver the 20th part and the Queen to have the Preemption of the Oars paying in every ounce of Gold 8 d. and in Silver 1 d. less then She can buy elsewhere tobe paid within 30 days 5. Tin And for Tin such portion as the Crown hath in Devonshire or Cornwall 6. Lead For Lead such Customs and Profits as are used in other parts of the Realm 7. Callamint Callamint the 20th part to the Crown or the value thereof 8. For every 100 weight of fine Copper during the first 6 years 2 s. or the 20th part at the election of the Crown Copper and after those six years 2 s. 6 d. or the 15th part or the value thereof in Monie 9. The Queen to have what She will of Copper for Her Monie giving half a years notice 10. If not then power to transport the rest paying the Customs 11. License to transport the Ewres where no Wood is 12. No former Grant to any other shall prejudice Humfrey's Grant 13. The Copper and Tin to be brought to the place of Coinage to be marked not above 1. Mile by Land or 12 by Water 14. License to bring over Workmen being no Enemies to the Crown and they to be indenizon'd by the Great Seal without charge 15. Not above 8 Strangers to be Partners at one time and not to have above one third part of the whole 16. Humfrey and Sbutz c. may bring over Victuals and Tools without Custom 17. The Queen to have power to resume paying to Humfrey and Shutz their Heirs or Assigns such recompence as shall be adjudged by 6 Citizens whereof 2 to be Aldermen 18. If the Queen let them again then Humfrey and Shutz to have the Refusal CHAP. IX An Abstract of the first Incorporation of the Company of the Mineral and Battery-works dated the 28th of May in the 10th Year of Queen ELIZABETH 1. THe Queen reciting former Letters Patents dated the 17th of September in the 7th Year of Her Reign unto William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz whereby She grants unto them to search dig and mine for the Callamine stone in all places of England and within the English Pale in Ireland and the onely use and commoditie thereof to have and all sorts o● Battery wares c. and at their charge to erect Houses necessary c. with divers other Powers c. And also reciting other Letters Patents dated the same Day and Year whereas before that time the Queen had given privilege to Cornelius Devoz for digging Allom and Copperice c. And reciting further the Grant to Thomas Thurland and Daniel Houghsetter to dig for Oars of Gold Silver Copper and Quicksilver in the Counties of York Lancaster Cumberland Westmerland Cornwall Devon Gloucester Worcester and in Wales c. with liberty to grant and assign Parts and Portions c. Ratifies and confirms all Immunities and Privileges to Will. Humfrey and Christopher Shutz c. And 2. Doth give and grant unto Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Thomas Duke of Norfolk William Earl of Pembroke Robert Earl of Leicester William Lord Cobham Sir William Cecill Knight Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Sir Henry Sidney Knight Sir Francis Jobson Knight Sir William Garrat Knight Rowland Hayward John Tamworth Peter Osburne Thomas Cecill Francis Agard Thomas Fleetwood William Roberts Henry Codenham Robert Christmas Roger Wetherall William Patten Christopher Chewt Thomas Smith William Dodington William Birde George Barnes William Humfrey Christopher Shutz Anthony Gammage Richard Marten Edmund Roberts Francis Barty Richard Handford Edward Casteline Jo. Goodrich Jo. Lovison William Williams Christopher Birkbeck and Andrew Palmer that they by the Name of The Governours Assistants and Society of the Mineral and Battery-works and their Successors shall be Incorporate into a Body Politick to continue for ever 3. Grants them a Common Seal Libertie to purchase Privileges and Authorities formerly granted to the said William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz and to purchase Lands Tenements c. by that Name and to alien and sell the same and be enabled to sue and be sued c. in all Courts and before any Judge Spiritual or Temporal c. in all matters touching their Society 4. Liberty to chuse two Governours two or more Deputies and eight or more Assistants Sir William Garrat and Rowland Hayward the two first Governours John Tamworth and Peter Osburne the two first Deputies and Thomas Fleetwood Henry Coddenham William Birde George Barne William Humfrey Christopher Shutz Anthony Gammage and Richard Marten the 8 first Assistants untill the first Thursday in Decemb. after the Date and from thence till new ones are chosen 5. Power to assemble at their own pleasure and to keep Courts there and to elect their Governours c. and to make Rules and Ordinances for the well-governing the Affairs of the Society c. 6. Power to admit others to be Members and to dismember and to make Acts and revoke the same upon occasion at pleasure gives freedom to all the Society Workmen and Labourers during the time of their Imloyment not to be impannelled upon Juries c. 7. License to admit Aliens and Strangers as well as English and to minister an Oath and deliver Copies of Admittances under their Common Seal 8. To rule and govern according to the Laws c. and to do speedy justice in putting them in execution 9. To purchase Lands c. not held In Capite nor above the yearly value of 100 l. over and above all charges Power to set Fines Pains c. upon any Member Officer Workman or Labourer for any matter relating to the said Society And if any be disobedient they are to punish them as the quality of the Fault requires at discretion which they are not to refuse 10. Power to make one or more Serjeant or Serjeants who is impowered to levy and gather all Fines c. and to arrest both Body and Goods in case of refusal of paiment in all places except Cities c. where the Mayor c. upon a Precept from the Society under their Seal shall arrest and attach c. and the same to deliver over to the said Serjeant according to the tenour of the said Precept and the said Mayor c. to be indemnified therefore 11. Willing and commanding all Mayors Sheriffs c. to be aiding and assisting to the said Society CHAP. X. An Abstract of KING JAMES his Letters Patents dated Jan. 28. in the second Year of His Reign Incorporates for ever The Society of the City of London for the Mines Royal. 1. REciting the Letters Patents granted to Tho. Thurland and Daniel Houghsetter dated the 10th day of October in the 6th Year of Queen Eliabeth and other Recitals 2. Grants all Mines and Oars therein recited to William

Earl of Pembroke Robert Viscount Cranborne Henry Lord Windsor Thomas Lord Burghley Thomas Lord Gerrard Sir John Popham Knight Sir Edward Winter Knight Sir Francis Popham Knight Sir John Smith Knight Sir Roger Owen Knight Francis Nedham Arnold Oldisworth Christopher Toldervy William Gammage Francis Beale Otes Nicholson Richard Danford Edward Barnes Emanuel Demetrius Abraham van Delden Emanuel Hechsteter and Daniel Hechsteter all Immunities formerly granted and ratifies the same and Incorporates them by the Name of The Governours Assistants and Society of the City of London of and for the Mines Royal and by that Name to have Succession and to continue for ever 3. To chuse one or two Governours one or more Deputies and six or more Assistants and to have a Common Seal and to purchase Lands c. 4 Robert Viscount Cranborne Sir John Popham Knight the first Governours Sir John Smith and Arnold Oldisworth Esquire the first Deputy-governours Sir Roger Owen Knight Francis Nedham Christopher Toldervy Wil-Gammage Francis Beale and Otes Nicholson Assistants untill the first Monday in May 1605 and Annually that day to keep a general Court and to elect Officers 5. To keep Courts at such Places and Times as the Governours or Deputies shall think fit 6. If any Officer elected die before the Year be expired the Major Part to chuse another in his place 7. Power to keep Courts to ordain and enact Statutes and Ordinances to admit or expell such as are deemed unworthy to be Members of the Company as also for the good Government of the Society 8. All Persons to be admitted before they be admitted to have a Quarter Part appointed for term of Life at least 9. A Gentleman and a Freeholder of an Estate of Inheritance within certain of the 8 Counties of 40 Marks per Annum before Admission to have half a quarter part assigned and to be admitted within 3 Years after the Date hereof 10. An Oath to be administred to such as shall be admitted to be of the Company and any Person admitted otherwise then is before expressed not to be accounted a Member of the Company 11. If any Person admitted to a Quarter or Half-quarter Part and shall either alien renounce or otherwise by Act of Court be removed from the same he shall no longer be held a Member of the Society 12. A full Court to have power to dismember such of the Society as they shall determine unworthy to remain of it and their Dismembering being entered into the Book of the Acts of the said Company 13. The Parties so removed not to be held Members without new Admission 14. Powers to keep Courts for putting the Acts and Statutes to be made in due execution as well to rule and govern every Member of this Corporation as all the Ministers Officers and Workmen touching all Causes and Controversies concerning their Privileges 15. Power to them or any Member to purchase Lands not exceeding the yearly value of 100 l. nor held In Capite above all charges and reprises 16. Power given by Fines For foitures or Imprisonment to punish any Member Officer or Workmen of the Company for breach of any Rules or Acts to be made or for any other Offence in the Affairs of the Society 17. No person offending and censured as aforesaid shall refuse to be ordered by this Society 18. Power to make an Officer or more in London or elsewhere and him or them to be styled Serjeant or Serjeants of the Mines Royal who have power to levy receive and gather all Fines and Forfeitures aforesaid and for default of paiment to arrest as well the Body as Goods of the Offender 19. The Offender being in any City or Town Corporate upon a Precept under their Common Seal to the Mayor or Sheriff c. they to arrest or attach the Body and Goods of such Offender and them to deliver to the said Officer of the Company 20. That the Mayor Sheriff or others shall not be troubled for executing any Precept to them directed from the Company as aforesaid 21. No Person to have Voice in Elections or other Affairs not having half a quarter of one 24th Part. 22. The Voice of every Person having a quarter Part to be held of as great account as the Voices of two others having but half quarter Parts apiece And so the Voice of any other having a greater Part then a quarter to be esteemed of as great force as so many several other Persons having but an half quarter Part apiece 23. All His Majesty's Officers c. to be aiding and assisting to the said Governours CHAP. XI The Abstract of the Letters Patents of the Mineral and Battery-works of the 22th of January in the first Year of KING JAMES 1. THe King reciting the Letters Patents of Queen Elizabeth dated the 17th day of September in the 7th Year of Her Reign whereby She granted to William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz their Heirs c. Liberty to dig mine and search for the Callamine stone within Her Kingdom of England and within the English Pale in Ireland together with the benefit of working thereof with other Metals with divers Immunities and Privileges c. for the making of all Wier and Battery-wares c. and to erect and build Workhouses necessary 2. And also reciting other Letters Patents dated the same Day and Year reciting by them That whereas She had formerly granted Privileges to Cornelius Devoz for mining and digging within Her Realm of England for Allom and Copperice and for divers other Oars c. And further reciting Her Grant to Thomas Thurland and Daniel Houghsetter of Liberty to dig and search for all Oars of Gold Silver Copper and Quicksilver within the Counties of York Lancaster Cumberland Westmerland Deven Cornwall Gloucester and Worcester and in Wales c. And by the said last recited Letters Patents the Queen grants to William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz full power to dig within England and English Pale in Ireland except the said 8 Counties and Wales for all manner of Oars and Metals simple and pure or mixt and compound and of Gold Silver Copper Quicksilver and for all other Treasures c. and to erect many other Immunities and Privileges c. 3. And whereas the said William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz have heretofore granted divers parts and portions of the said Immunities Powers and Privileges c. and whereas the said William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz and all or most of their Assigns are since dead And whereas the said Powers and Privileges c. are since come unto William Earl of Pembroke Robert Lord Cecill Sir Julius Caesar Sir James Pemberton Sir William Bond and Sir James Lancaster Knights John Osburne Thomas Caesar Francis Barty sen Arnold Oldisworth Christopher Toldervy William Gammage Charles Chewt Henry Tamworth and William Bond sen Esquires Henry Palmer Francis Barty jun. Richard Danford George Browne Gent. Richard Marten jun. Nathanael Marten Richard Collins and Alexander Fownd c. 4. Know

of Gold or Silver which is in the base Metals the King should have all the Mines of base Metals in the Realm and the Subject having Mines of base Metals in his own Lands they are of no effect for there is not according to the said Authors any such Mine either in this Kingdom or elsewhere which hath not some Gold or Silver in it And therefore it seemeth reasonable to consider the nature of a poor Mine and the value of the Gold and Silver in the base Metal and that the Product be of such value that it countervail the charge of getting it or otherwise there is no reason that it should draw the Propertie of the base Metal to the Crown but if otherwise then it is to be a Mine Royal. CHAP. IV. An Abstract of the Letters Patents dated the 28th of May in the 10th Year of Q. ELIZABETH Incorporating for ever the Society of the MINES ROYAL 1. REciting the Letters Patents granted to Tho. Thurland and Daniel Houghsetter dated 10 Oct. b. in the 6th Year of Her Reign c. 2. Grants Power to assign to any Person or Persons Parts and Portions of their said Privileges Immunities c and ratifies and confirms all Immunities Licenses Privileges formerly to them granted 3. Grants the said License Immunities Privileges c. unto William Earl of Pembroke Robert Earl of Leicester James Lord Montjoy Sir William Cecill Knight Tho Thurland Daniel Houghsetter John Tamworth and Jo. Dudley Esquires Lionel Ducket Citizen and Alderman of London Benedict Spinola of London Merchant Jo. Loner Will. Winter Anthony Ducket Roger Wetherall Rich. Springham Jeffry Ducket Rich. Barnes Will Platten Tho. Smith Will. Birde Gent. Daniel Ulstet a German Mat●hew Field George Needham and Edmund Thurland all the said Privileges c. and Incorporates them for ever and their Successors by the Name of The Governours Assistants and Commonalty for the Mines Royal and so to continue for ever 4. Enables them by that Name to purchase Lands Tenements c. and to alien set or let the same and to sue implead c. and to be sued c. in any Court before any Judge Spiritual or Temporal concerning any the Affairs belonging to the said Governours Assistants and Commonalty c. 5. Power to chuse one or two Governours one or two Deputy-governours and six or more Assistants 6. Ordains Lionel Ducket and Daniel Houghsetter the first Governours Anthony Ducket and Daniel Ulstet the first four Deputy governours Jo. Tamworth Tho. Thurland Benedict Spinola John Loner Will. Winter and Roger Wetherall the first Assistants untill the first Monday in May 1569 and thence if need be till others are chosen 7. Power to keep Courts to elect Officers to make By-laws Acts and Ordinances when and where they please within c. and to admit more Members English or Strangers c. and to revoke Rules Ordinances c. Every Member to have half a quarter of a 24th Part or a Gentleman of 40 Marks per Annuum in certain Counties a quarter part at least 8. To rule and govern Officers Ministers Workmen and Labourers according to the Ordinances c. and to remove Members and impose Fines to purchase Lands to elect one or two Officers who are called Serjeants to collect the Fines and to arrest Body and Goods 9. Their Precepts to be obeyed in Cities c. and all Officers indemnified for their obedience thereto 10. A Member having a Quarter part his Voice is as good as two Members of half Quarter parts and so of the rest greater Parts proportionably 11. All Mayors Sheriffs c. to be assisting CHAP. V. An Abstract of the Indenture of Covenants between the Queen and the Corporation BY Indenture dated the 16th day of June in the 10th year of Queen Elizabeth made between the Queen of the one part and the Corporation of the Mines Royal of the other part reciting the Indenture of Covenants of the 10th of October in the 6th year The Companie did covenant with the Queen to pay deliver observe perform fulfill and keep all Paiments Customs Subsidies Coinage Summes of monie Gold Silver Precious stones Pearls Copper Parts Portions Preemptions Covenants Grants Articles and Agreements in that Indenture specified on the Patentees behalf to be paid delivered reserved performed c. And that the Queen shall have all such Paiments Summes of monie Customs Subsidies Coinage Duties Gold Silver Precious stones Pearls Copper Parts Portions Preemptions c. which the Patentees had covenanted the Queen should have CHAP. VI. An Abstract of the Grant of the Mineral and Battery-works 17 Sept. 7 Eliz. 1. BY Letters Patents the Queen granted to William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz all manner of Ewres simple and pure or mixt and compound of the Metals of Gold Silver Copper and Quicksilver and all other Minerals and Treasures likely to be found in Earth or Ground in England Wales and the English Pale in Ireland and of Tin and Lead in such sort as by Law is or hath been used Copperice and Allom and the Mines in the last Patent excepted 2. Therein is granted Power to dig to build Houses not to dig under Houses nor in the Mines in the last Patent excepted without consent indifferent Persons to award a recompence none to use their Tools or Instruments or to dig for 21 Years Disturbers of Workmen to be committed for six Moneths without Bail or Mainprise to take up Necessaries for the Work as Wood Timber c. at reasonable rates and if the Queen be minded to work any Mines without the English Pale then William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz shall have like Privilege and Power as if the same had been granted 3. Free for the Queen to resume this Grant for Her proper use onely and not to grant it to other Persons their Charge Loss Expence and Interest to be allowed by six indifferent Citizens whereof two to be Aldermen to be equally chosen the Referrees to deliver a Certificate of the Charge to the Lord Treasurer who is to make paiment thereupon and if after Resumption the Queen shall decline the working then William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz their Heirs and Assigns to have the preference of Farming it c. 17 Sept. 7 Eliz. A Patent to the same Persons of the Callamine stone or Lapis Callaminaris within the same places and with like powers for the better Composition of the mixed Metal called Latten in reducing it to be soft and malleable for Wier and mollifying of Iron and Steel and drawing and forging them into Plates for Armour in all our Realm of England and Wales and within the English Fale in Ireland power to dig ut ante CHAP. VII The Abstract of the Indenture of Covenants between the Queen and William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz dat 17 Sept. 7 Eliz. concerning the Mineral and Battery-works 1. FIrst the Queen covenants that no other Persons shall dig of or for what is granted 2. William Humfrey and Christopher Shutz