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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

limitation of time and allowance for their sustentation as to your Wisdoms shall be thought fit that by their dutifull and laborious performance therein they may afterwards come into the happinesse of your Pardon for their former Offences Thus having given you a perfect Narrative of my Rise Growth and Progresse in this common good together with the sum of my desires as matter of encouragement in the further prosecution thereof I will onely adde some few particulars to manifest the advantage that would by the said Grant redownd immediately thereupon to the Honour and Profit of the Nation and then leave the premises to the serious consideration of the Parliament all others that desire to further a work of such publique concernment As for example 1. If in three or four thousand Tuns of Lead yeerly raised which for some yeeres last past have been and now is the Trade and Customes both by Transportation and Importation be kept up and encreased to many thousand pounds profit yeerly then it must be inferred and cannot be denied That if double and treble the quantity be so raised by the charge and practice of my selfe and fellow-undertakers The result thereof must of necessity be equivalent and encrease the value of the Customs imported whereby the Nation is advantaged and the Adventurers encouraged I desire to propound this Quaere Whether 2. If the concealed riches of our Nation so discovered with lesse danger and greater honour be not much more advantagious for the inhabitants to seek them by Gods providence at home then to imbark their thoughts and Estates upon the hopes of Forraign parts to enrich themselves by advancing the Trade of another Countrey since by the practique experience of a private man the generall Charge of a Miners profession is reduced to half the value of former disbursments and as much more certainty in the way of discoveries Tho. Bushell These considerations and my late practique experience at Combmartin in Devon did not onely invite the worthy Merchants of Barnstable and Bydifford to write this ensuing Letter unto me for Transporting all my Lead and Oar Fraight-free in stead of Ballast but also divers other Merchants by their good example were induced to adventure upon my having a Farm of the Customs according to the proportion of my Rent abovementioned the severall sums hereafter expressed as to a publique work and in hope of enriching themselves by the same providence SIR SInce you have been pleased at your own great charge to discover those deserted Works at Combmartin for the publique good of our Countrey And whereas you are interessed in the Mynes of Wales which furnish you both with Lead and Lead-Oar These are to request you to be pleased to make this our Harbour partaker of the Benefits may proceed therein and what we buy not from you for ready moneys we shall be ready to transport for you Fraight-free instead of Ballast you rendring it aboard to all such Ports as our Vessels shall commerce withall In so doing we suppose the result thereof will more properly conduce to your hopefull proceedings in the said works of Comhmartin which we wish all happy successe and remain Your Loving friends Richard Harris William Leigh George Shurt Robert Dennis Iohn Tucker Thomas Horwood Anthony Benny William Palmer Lyonel Becher Richard Harris William Nottel Iohn Down Walter Tucker R. Flemming Richard Medford William Wood. Francis Newton Edward Flemming Tho. Cox Nathaniel Fisherleigh Robert Frayn Barnstable 6 Octob. 1648. WHereas Thomas Bushel Esquire Farmer of the Mynes Royall is willing and ready to adventure his pains and a great part of his Estate in discovering of the deserted Mynes of Combmartin in Devonshire and in cutting through divers Mountains in Wales or elsewhere in Darbishire for the discovering of Silver and Lead Mynes And whereas by his Relation he is in good hopes that he shall get an act of Parliament freeing the said Mines so to be discovered and recovered from payment of any Customs for twenty one yeeres or else that he shall become Tenant to all the Customes of England and VVales at such a Rent as they are now worth for which he hath already Letters Patents from his Majesty Now for that the said Thomas Bushell doubting his owne Estate will not be sufficient to go through with and perfect these chargeable Adventures and being contented to admit of such persons as will adventure with him in the Mynes to have a proportionable charge of the profits thereof Custome free We whose Names are hereunder written being desirous to forward the publique good of this Kingdom and hoping by Gods Providence to gain profit to our selves do hereby declare That so soon as the said Mr. Bushell shall by an Act of Parliament have the said Customs granted unto him we will each of us according to our severall Subscriptions lay down and pay the said severall summes of money to be imployed by the said Mr Bushel in the said Mines as aforesaid to the end we may have a proportionable share of the profits arising by Adventures as aforesaid We whose Names are underwritten will adventure in the businesse abovesaid as followeth Martin Iefferson 800 li. VVilliam Parkhurst 300 li. Timothy Lumm 500 li. Francis Ottley 500 li. Henry Seley 500 li. George Goodman 300 li. Iames Ingram 300 li. Robert Mees 500 li. Henry Archibold 300 li. Edmund Goodyer 500 li. Many others have profered and promised to adventure if the Customs be granted as desired Which publique Service was likewise a great motive to his Excellency and the Lord Viscount Say and Seal to direct the Letter of Request at followeth To the Honourable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons Mr Speaker I Formerly granted safe conduct unto Thomas Bushel Esquire who had the command of the Isle of Lundy to come hither to Treat concerning the surrender of that place and he like a Gcntleman truly performed on his part such Articles as were agreed on since which time he hath been very industrious in finding out of Lead Mines which are like to produce good quantities of Silver proof whereof you may please to see and having seen a Letter under the hands of the Merchants of Barnstable to further his endeavors for the publique I could not but out of a sence I have the generall good will be exceedingly advantaged by the way of his industry humbly offer it as a request of mine That Mr. Bushel may have for his better incouragement your best assistance in restoring him to all his Estate according to mine agreement and the Order of both houses dated the Tenth of Iuly 1647. And although by that agreement and Order he humbly conceives he may justly claim the Customs of Lead of England and Wales at such Rent as the same were formerly granted him by Letters Pattents from His Majesty under the Great-Seal for a good Term of years unexpired yet he hath been and still is contented to decline that claime and submit to such a reasonable Rent for the same as the Committee of the Revenue shall propose And in pursuance hereof the then Farmors of the Customes have by Order of the said Committee of the Navy as I am informed returned a certificate whereby the true values of the said Customs of Lead may appear I have therefore thought fit humbly to recommend the said Certificate together with the Petition of the Myners of Derby-shire and Devon and his Propositions for the publique good and make it my request that he may speedily Farm the said Customs of Lead during the time of his former Grant whereby his adventures for discovering Minerals and recovering the deserted works of this Kingdom may be incouraged to joyn with him in so common a good least hee be inforced to leave this Realm and so good a work perish by his absence For truly Sir this last discovery of his in the County of Devon with the port of other his proceedings hath almost perswaded him to become an Adventurer Who remains Queenstreet 14. Martii 1648. Your humble Servant THO FAIRFAX