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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08598	The case of Thomas Bushell, of Enston in the county of Oxon, Esquire. Truly stated. Together with his progresse in minerals, and the desires of severall merchants and others that are willing and ready to advance so good a work for the benefit of the nation. Humbly tendred to the serious consideration of the honourable House of Commons, and all other persons in authority, whether civill or martiall, that are desirous to advance the trade of the nation, supply the necessities of the poor, by discovering the hidden treasures of the Earth, preserve the lives of many poore creatures from untimely death (who now are destroyed in their prime for petty fellonies) which might otherwise be made serviceable to the Commonwealth.	Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6242; ESTC R233756	12,369	18

Authorizing you likewise for the better regulating of unruly Myners complained of to draw up a Warrant for a Stannary Court fit for Our Royall signature that We may be troubled no further And this shall be your speciall Warrant Given at Our Court at Whitehall this seven and twentieth day of Febr. 1638. To Our Trusty and welbeloved Sir John Banks Knight Our Atturney Generall or Sir Edward Littleton Knight Our Sollitor Generall By vertue of which Grants from his Majesty I being interessed in some of the Mynes Royall in Wales Devon and Cornwall and being desirous to know what was a Myne Royall in the sence of Law I obtained the opinion of divers learned men in the Law who declared their judgements therein as followeth The Declaration of learned Lawyers what a Myne Royall is according to former Presidents Although the Gold or Silver contained in the base Mettall of a Myne in the Land of a Subject be of lesse value th●n the baser Mettal yet if the Gold or Silver doe countervaile the charge of the refining or be of more worth then the base Mettal spent in refining it this is a Myne Royall and as well the base Metall as the Gold and Silver in it belong by Prerogative to the Crown Sir Ralph Whitfield his Majesties Serjeant at Law Sir Edward Herbert Attourney Generall Oliver St. John Sollicitor John Glanvill Serjeant John Wilde Serjeant Rich Cresswell Serjeant Orlando Bridgman the Princes Sollicitor Robert Holborn Iohn Hern. Ed. Bagshaw Tho. Lane Rich. King Edmund Prideaux Iohn Maynard Edward Hide Iohn Glinne Charls Fulwood Harbottle Grimston Iohn White George Peard Iohn Franklin Richard Weston Iohn Glover William Ellis Tho. Culpepper Iohn Goodwin William Sandford Iohn George James Haward THat shortly after my first entrance upon the Mynes in Wales there were drowned 80. plumps by reason of a great deluge of water then happening whereby my undertaking became unlikely in the judgement of others to produce any good effect either to my selfe or the Nation that I was by my friends pittied and by my foes laughed at so that had I not duly considered the Justice of the undertaking in respect of God the honour in respect of my Countrey and the possibility in respect of my self meeting with so many discouragements I had certainly desisted but God who is the Author and Finisher of all just undertakings supported me under and carryed me through that great work and after nigh four years night and day spent in recovering of the said decayed Mynes by the continued maintenance and industry of five hundred Families and the expence of about 7000 l. as a reward of my hazard expence and labour brought me to reap the harvest of my hope with discovering far distant by the Art of dyalling where the Veines of Silver and Lead Ore sprang at the superficious of the Rocks from the old Works in new places which the malice or ignorance of some that knowes not the generation of Mettals nor the largenesse of their extent in creation of depth and length for mans use and Gods glory would needs affirme that it was a new worke and not a branch of the old Myne formerly deserted through the said deluge of water which to confute their incredulity therein I have been at 10000 li. charge for to thred the supposed new Myne to the old worke that others of my profession might as well be verst in the mystery of Myning and encouraged therein when all other hopes are frustrated of receiving profit from their deeper search for Mynerall treasure as I was assured of the truth by the aforesaid L. Chancellor Bacon and a Portugals description of such a Mynerall experiment Having made the discovery as aforesaid and b●ing satisfied in the Legality of my undertaking in respect of man I endeavored to proceed therein according to the Law of God striving to do unto others as I would they should do unto me In order whereunto having discovered a branch that issued from the old Myne at the mountain of Geginan I at the generall Assize held for the County of Cardigan Judge Turner being on the Bench publickly propounded unto the Gentry and Freeholders of the said County being Owners of the Herbage That if any of them would by my example adventure to discover the concealed Treasure in any Herbage belonging unto them at their own charge they should although the Grant was particular to me from his Majesty enjoy the benefit of my Grant and Mint for their encouragement therein But if they did in respect of the great charge and hazard decline the same That then if afterward my endeavours were cround beyond present probability or expectation they would not envy or repine at that blessing which Gods providence as a reward of my labours bestowed upon me Further adding That if in the prosecution of the said work I might commit any Trespasse upon the Herbage of any Gentleman or others I would give such answerable satisfaction as should by the next Justice of Peace be judged double to the damage sustained by my trespasse thereupon which promise I have constantly performed ever since my first undertaking The Mynes mo●● commonly being discovered in such Grounds as are worth not above three pence per Acre which hath been proved upon a full Hearing this Parliament But to proceed Having by the mercy of God raised a considerable benefit I did not cast about how to hide but to improve my Talent for the good of my Native Country which my gracious Maker had bestowed As an evidence whereof I improved my ability for the recovering of severall drowned Mynes and discovering other new branches of the old Mynes wrought by the Romans viz. at the Mountains called Tall●bont Broomfloid Combmervin Geginan Commustwith Comsum-Lock and the Beacon hill of the Daren by which means Trade was greatly encreased the Common wealth inriched and many thousands of poor people relieved I applyed my self to finde out some more facile lesse chargeable and more expeditious way not only to discover new but to recover the old decayed Mynes In order whereunto I contrived a way of Addits cutting levell through the lowest part of the Mountain and not beginning at the top and sinking downward whereby the work was made more profitable and lesse subject to the casualties of damps and drowning by preserving a constant water course which was extream incident to the other way of myning whereby most commonly the Myners were drowned out before they could attain half the riches of the Myne and also avoyding the tedious and chargeable sinking of air-shafts by conveying air through the Mountain many hundred Fathoms with Pipe and Bellows away never before used by any undertakers but now approved by all And because I found that the wood of the Countrey was exceedingly wasted by extracting the said Minerals and that it could not be possible to afford sufficient supply or if it did it must be at such a rate as would devour the greatest part of the gain besides the