Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
lord_n earl_n edward_n viscount_n 13,296 5 11.4410 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A67366 An essay on the value of the mines, late of Sir Carbery Price by William Waller, Gent ... Waller, William, Gent.; Pryse, Carbery, Sir, d. 1695. 1698 (1698) Wing W552A; ESTC R13385 24,202 82

There are 2 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

AN ESSAY ON THE Value of the Mines LATE OF Sir Carbery Price By WILLIAM WALLER Gent. Steward of the said MINES Writ for the private Satisfaction of all the Partners LONDON Printed in the Year MDCXCVIII THE Epistle Dedicatory TO S ir HUMPHRY MACKWORTH CHAIRMAN And now Standing in the Place of EDWARD PRICE Esq and late of Sir CARBERY PRICE AND TO The most Noble his Grace the Duke of LEEDS The Right Honourable the Marquess of CARMARTHEN The Right Honourable Pawlet Earl of BULLINGBROOK The Right Honourable James Lord Viscount LANESBOROUGH The Right Honourable William Lord Digby The Honourable Sir Humphry Edwin Knight Lord Mayor of LONDON The Honourable Hatton Compton Esq AND TO The Honoured the Lady Ann Cholmley Mrs. Mary Cholmley Mrs. Bridget Pesball Mrs. Jane Bickerstaffe Mrs. Ann Hill Mrs. Elizabeth Lloyd Widow Mrs. Eliz. Lloyd Spinster Mrs. Lucy Wright AND TO The Honoured Sir Thomas Mackworth Bart. Sir John Price Bart. Sir John Morden Knt. Sir Charles Bickerstaffe Knt. Sir Christopher Wren Knt. Sir Paul Whitchcot Knt. AND TO The Honoured Edward Price Esq Henry Farmer William Powell Edward Nicholas Bulkley Mackworth Philip Bickerstaffe Arthur Moore Henry Lloyd John Meyrick John Pugh James Blake William Freeman Samuel Trotman William Nicholas Joseph Short Rich. Stephens Geo. London Hen. Simons Hen. Grove and Joh. Wodehouse Esquires AND TO Mr. John Oldbury Thomas Phips Senior Paul Docminique Whitfield Hayter Anthony Forty William Wolley Thomas Phips Junior Richard Chancy Richard Curtis Thomas Fredericke Gabriel Glover John Glover Thomas Jeve John Thrale Nathanael Troughton John Newland John Preston Edward Grace John Hayword James Hallet Merchants present PARTNERS of the said MINES HAving had the Honour to be employed in the Management of these Mines of Sir Carbery Price for six Years last past and being much concerned to see so great a Treasure lye dead and unwrought meerly for want of a Stock and a right Constitution for the Management thereof and finding some of the Partners unhappily engaged in Differences and Law-suits amongst themselves and no probability of any Reconciliation or the Works going forward without the Assistance of some Publick-spirited Gentleman who both understood the Art of Mining and also composing of Differences I thought it my Duty and Interest to make an Enquiry if possibly I could find out such a Person who would Purchase the Shares late of Sir Carbery Price and heartily Engage for the Publick Good But when all the Qualifications are considered that were necessary to be found in one Person upon this Occasion I presume your Honors will be much enclined to believe that I undertook no very easie Task For when I met with an honest Gentleman I generally found that he was very unskilful in Matters of this nature and either unable or fearful to Engage in so great an Vndertaking and when I met with a Gentleman who had any Knowledge of these things I presently perceived that he was for grasping at all and instead of being willing to grant any thing for the publick Good was still for getting more for his own particular and private Advantage So that upon the whole Matter I found that some had Money but no Skill others had Skill but no Money some again had both Skill and Money which was very rare but yet wanted that generous and publick Spirit that was necessary in this Case and where-ever I found a Person who was well disposed in the general and well qualified in other Respects yet he either wanted Courage to venture so great a Sum of Money or Judgment to understand the present Constitutions of the Company and how to amend them for the publick Good But at last when I was in a manner in Despair and had given over all hopes of Success it was my fortune to Travel to Neath in Glamorgan-shire where I had the favour of being admitted to see the Copper-works and Coal-works of Sir Humphry Mackworth and having observed his new Contrivances in the Management thereof which were more than I had seen before in any part of this Kingdom and taking notice of his Judgment in Matters of Law and also of his frank and generous Disposition for the publick Good and that he was by no means of a covetous or grasping Temper but took delight in the Advantage he brought to others especially the poor Miners and Labourers as well as in the Gains he got for himself I presently concluded that he was the fittest Person I knew to set the Wheels a going with us in Cardiganshire and I humbly conceive your Honors would all be of the same Opinion if it were lawful for me to discover the several Emprovements I observed at his Works many of which being yet kept as Secrets I must forbear to mention But his new Method of Coffering out the Water from his Shafts and Sinking-pits and thereby preventing the Charges of Water-engines and also recovering a large Vein of Coal by that means which was in vain attempted by other Artists and his new Sailing-waggons for the cheap Carriage of his Coal to the Water-side whereby one Horse does the Work of ten at all times but when any Wind is stirring which is seldom wanting near the Sea one Man and a small Sail does the Work of twenty which are publick do sufficiently shew what his Genius is capable of in Matters of that nature And I believe he is the first Gentleman in this part of the World that hath set up Sailing-engines on Land driven by the Wind not for any Curiosity or vain Applause but for real Profit whereby he could not fail of Bishop Wilkins's Blessing on his Vndertakings in case he were in a Capacity to bestow it But I must beg leave not only to mention these things which however others may justly Value I know he is pleased to esteem but as accidental Trifles that fell in his way but also to take notice of his prudent Methods for reducing all his Vndertakings to a Certainty free from Hazard his Copper-men working by the Tun and his Colliers by the Weigh at a certain Price which is constantly and punctually Paid whereby as no Fraud can happen to himself without a Combination of all so good Encouragement is given to the Workmen to be Careful and Industrious for their own Interest as well as their Masters not to mention the convenient Scituation of his Copper-work which is such that his Men may run the Coal with Wheel-barrows into the very Furnaces and bring the Oar by Water within a Stone 's cast of the Work nor his Prudence in securing Partners who had quantities of good Copper Oar to be smelted with his own Coal before he began his Copper-work whereby the Necessity of raising a great Stock keeping many Agents and Stewards at great Salaries in several Counties and great Hazards of bad Bargains and bad Oar with many other Inconveniencies incident to other Vndertakings of that kind were all prevented and not only a great Profit made of the Copper but
part to be employed for making the Levels Adits Shafts Smelting-houses c. and raising several Stages or Stelches for a Number of Men to be employed together at which time the Work will be clear of all Obstructions from Water and two Men by blasting upwards with Gun-power will get more Oar than six can do now with their Working-tools and that the Residue thereof be employed in raising a Stock of Oar before-hand and also that a Year's time be allowed for putting the Work in Order and even then though a very considerable Profit will be made yet it is not pretended under some Years more to bring the Works to the highest Valuation And this being premised I observe First That in the Year 1693 before the Copper-mines were discovered Sir Carbery Price having recovered his Right from the Patentees of Royal Mines divided his Interest therein into 4008 Shares whereof each Share was valued and sold at 17 l. per Share and for the other Moiety he was afterwards offered 40000 l. by an eminent Merchant in this City to be immediately paid down which he refused for this Reason that I had then demonstrated to the said Sir Carbery and his Partners that with a sufficient Stock he would be able in a few Years with six hundred Men to bring in a clear Profit from one of the said Veins of 70500 l. per Annum as by a Paper printed in the Year 1693 may appear and herein set forth as followeth viz. Six hundred Men employed at the great Work when the Levels are up at 8 s 6 d. per Tun for Getting Washing and Making Merchantable as it is now got every two Men must get above a Tun by Week to make them Wages but at the rate of one Tun a Week the six hundred Men will raise three hundred Tuns by Week and at fifty Weeks fifteen thousand Tuns by the Year this Charge of getting is l. 06375 Carriage to the River Dovey at 5 s. per Tun 03750 12 d. per Tun by Water and for Landing it into the Store-houses at the Port of Aberdovey 00750 Fifteen thousand Tuns of Oar will make ten thousand Tuns of Lead smelting of this when our Mills are up at 15 s. per Tun 07500 Charges 18375 Ten Thousand Tuns of Lead at 9 l. per Tun 90000 Charge of getting washing and smelting 18375 Sinking Shafts and incident Charges 1125 Clear Profits 70500 Some Gentlemen have condemned me very much for giving in such an Account as believing this was a greater Product than can be raised from any Mine in the World but underfavour this will appear a great Mistake on their side not only from a plain Demonstration of the thing as aforesaid but from common Experience in other Mines both at home and abroad Vid. The original Map in Copper by P. Lee at the Atlas in Cheap-side As First in America The famous Mine of Potozi is a sufficient Instance to the contrary and therefore I have here incerted a Map thereof ☞ Place the Map of Potozi in the Page following A Description of the Mine of Potozi The SILVER-MINE of POTOZI a a The Vein b The Level c The Smelting Cupilo's d The Road. E The River of Plate F Young Potozi The Scale is four hundred Yards in an Inch. Note This Vein is drawn at one End of the Hill and the Veins of Sir Carbery Price are drawn upon the Superficies and Length of the Hill This Work employs above Twenty Thousand Miners and is wrought Night and Day above a thousand Yards deep See Acosta in his Natural History of the Indies and the History of the New World by N. N. And several Merchants that have Travelled into those Parts relate That this Mountain by reason of the numerous Smelting-houses built upon it doth look at a distance as if it were all on Fire And That these Mines have been the occasion of building of a very fine Town at the bottom of the Hill called The Town of Potozi Thus you see what great things are done at Potozi by the poor Indians they can raise Two Hundred Fifty six Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Tuns of Silver Oar in a Year and yet in England 't is thought a Fiction and a Romance and by some a meer Cheat to draw in Persons to speak of raising but Fifteen Thousand Tun of Oar in a Year I could heartily wish for my Country's sake that these Mines were as rich in Silver as that I should never doubt but in a reasonable time to equal them in raising Oar from Veins exceeding them in breadth and wideness and in many other Respects provided there were a Stock proportionable imployed in the working of them for there that Mine is wrought a thousand Yards deep here from the surface of the Ground there they carry up the Oar on their Backs in Wallets as aforesaid here with the help of a Windless by which two Men can wind up more than twenty Men can carry on their Backs And therefore I hope in every respect it will be thought no Vanity to affirm That we have as much Art and Ingenuity in England as any of the Workmen in America and I doubt not but in some Years these Mines in Cardiganshire will give occasion for erecting as large a Town as that at Potozi which may deservedly be called by the Name of Welsh Potozi and one Advantage at least these will have above Potoz● that whereas that Mountain is Seventy Leagues from the Sea here the Proprietors and Minors for their Encouragement many have the delightful Prospect of seeing the Ships failing into the Port of Aberdovey to bring them ready Money for their Commodities But to come back into our own Country there are several Works in the North that come up to this printed Proposal considering the difference between the Veins for the Right Honourable the Earl of Darwenwater hath or lately had Mines of Lead in Auston-moor in Cumberland about Thirty Miles from the Sea and made of his Duty which is a fifth part of the Work 12000 l. a Year Another eminent Lord in the North from a small Vein of Lead three Foot thick doth or lately did clear 17000 l. a Year Another noble Lord from a small Vein not two Foot thick and thirty Miles from the Sea doth or lately did clear above 7000 l. a Year betwixt him and his Farmers and several more such Veins there are in the North. Now if these small Veins whereof some of them are thirty Fathom deep before they come to the Oar and so far from the Sea can make so great a Profit clear above all Charges What must those Mines yield whereof one Vein is so large as aforesaid and the least as big as any of them in the North especially when the Levels are made in a cheap Country and so near the Sea But the Advantage of these Works may farther appear by an Essay on the Value of the Works in the North and these compared together as