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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

IOHANNES PETTVS EQVES AVRATVS HIC TACENS ILLC SCRIBENS ALIBI LOQVENS AGENS PATIENS Aetate 57. 1670. W SHerwin ad 〈◊〉 facibat Fodinae 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 LONDON Printed by H. L. and R. B. for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleetstreet near Cliffords Inne M.DC.LXX To His HIGHNESSE Prince Rupert Count-Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Cumberland Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Constable of Windsor-Castle Chief Governor of the Mynes-Royal and Mineral Works in England c. And one of His MAJESTIES most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL SIR THIS Treatise of the Mines Humbly submits it self to Your Patronage and the rather because as I therein observe at every 70 Years some signal Occurrence revived them to our Memories for in the sixth of Eliz. after several 70 Years a German gave us the clearest Guidance to their Conduct And your HIGHNESSE about 70 Years after made them very useful to his late MAJESTIES Martial Affairs during the Civil Wars and now in time of Peace we have made choice of you for our Chief Governor to both Societies But in respect you were not privy to the Grants and Priviledges belonging to us I conceive this short History or rather Abstract of what concerns us may be acceptable to you I confess they are unfit for your Perusal were not my Intents more zealously employed upon higher Advantages as your Highness may collect from my fisth and sixth Chapters for I think it requisite that the Countreys and Villages where such Mines and Minerals are should be exactly and publickly known which I shall in time divulge with the like for Plants whereby such Metallists Mineralists Botannists or other Artists who have occasion to use them need not trouble forein parts for with more ease and as much plenty they may be supplied at home But not to trouble your Highness further I was under your Command in the late Wars where I was in part witness to your great Conduct and Heroick Acts and I am now once more under your Command in the Affairs of the Mines whereby I have also observed your incomparable skill and general Knowledge in the lesser Arts and greater Sciences worthy of a Princes Recreation and Study all in their kind tending to some publick good and to inspect them no diminution of Greatness and in these wherein your Judgement may tonceive my Capacity extendable be pleased freely to Command SIR Your most Humble Obedient and Obliged Servant JO. PETTUS Anno 1670. To the Right Honourable The Lord Ashley Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Governors of the Mines Royal and Mineral Works and of His MAJESTIES PRIVY COUNCIL MY LORD THIS Treatise presents it self also for your Lordships Concurrence wherin I have clearly stated the Kings Interest in our Mines by his Prerogative according to the most ancient and best Record I have also added the particular Customes of some Counties and other Discourses of things relating to our Societies And I did once resolve to have inserted first the reasons why we do not make such benefit of our Mines and Minerals as we might do and secondly the remedies which may be used for the better managing of them But I do forbear to publish them because I have seen the bad effects of Printing those worthy Designs concerning Fishing the Guiny Trade and Farthings c. for if they had been only in the breast of the State till every circumstance and opposition had been well weigh'd resolved and unexpected to others put in execution they would have redounded much more to the publick advantage And this Affair of our native Mines and Metals is much of the like nature for I conceive the King and Kingdoms Interest is first to be considered Next how the Proprietors may be so sweetned by profit to them that they may not only concurre in voluntary Discoveries but assist in their Operations and this may be done without diminution of the Kings Prerogative Thirdly how we may supplant Foreiners herein who hitherto have supplanted us Fourthly how to countenance Discoverers either by rewards or assistance Fifthly to encourage Lessees and to prevent their fraud of which hitherto many have been too guilty And lastly how by these to make some honest and reasonable profit to our selves And that these may be the better digested it is humbly recommended to your Lordship That a Committee of the Societies may be chosen being upon Oath which may Modell these Heads or more into fit Representations to His MAJESTIE and according to his Approbation the Societies to put them in action and to them I shall be ready to represent my thoughts and Considerations with a constant recourse to your Lordships Vniversal Knowledge which may direct us in the most facile way of effecting what is aimed at by My Lord Your Lordships most Humble and faithful Servant JO. PETTUS Anno 1670. TO MY HONOVRED FRIENDS OF THE SOCIETIES OF THE Mines and Mineral Works in this History Mentioned ABout Twelve Years since you were pleased freely to make me a Participant in both your Societies to gratifie which Favours I have ever since studied and endeavoured your Services and at some of our Meetings Considerations being had that it was sitting to make our Societies more publickly known for the benefit of Lessees and Discoverers of Mines c. I resolved to write and by the Encouragements of my Honoured Friends Sir Robert Murray and Sir Francis Cobb and some of the Long Robe both Common and Civil and the help of our own Records I have at last produced this History wherein I can call nothing my own but the imperfect Method Style some few Observations and the pleasure I took in finding such a worthy Diversion from Idlenesse It is the first Collection extant of this kind and if I have pleased you herein and facilitated the way to any future Additions by others I hope to receive their thanks and yours which is all that is expected by Your Grateful Friend and Servant JO. PETTUS Anno 1670. AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS HISTORY THE Usual Method of Historians is to to begin with the Creation wherein I might tell you that when GOD breathed upon the Face of the Waters that was a Putrefying Breath and that such Waters as were quiet and calm turned into Plains or Levelled Earth and the Boisterous Waters into Hills and Mountains according to the proportion of the Billows and their Spaces into Vallies which have ever since continued in those wonderful and pleasant Dimensions the Seminal Virtues of all Sublunary things being locked up and more durably preserved in them and yet from thence they are transmitted through Terrene Pores either from their own Exuberancies or the Sun or Stars Extractions into various and visible Forms

Family still continue in Cardiganshire and doubtless we had much of our knowledge from their Predecessors who revived this work in Cardiganshire They also entered upon another work of Copper at Keswick in Cumberland being within the Royalties of the Earl of Northumberland formerly granted to him from the Crown together with all Mines c. Whereupon the Earl opposed Houghsetter but the matter being brought to Tryal between the Queen and the Earl it was the opinion of the Judges that notwithstanding his Grant the Queen had power to search for Treasure in any ones ground So that it is good for Princes and even for mean Lords to keep a Claim to their Prerogatives and Customes lest time as in this case should cause an opposition For 70 years intermission made that questionable which for many ages before was out of question But this Suit being ended the Abstract of which Proceedings is hereto annexed to prevent the like occasion for the future the Queen May 28. in the 10th year of her Reign erects a Corporation of which William Earl of Pembroke was the first Governour and Robert Earl of Leicester James Lord Monjoy Sir William Cecill Assistants and many other Persons of Qualitie joyned consisting in all of 24 Persons and as many Shares and those Shares subdividable into half and quarter parts so that they might consist of 96 Persons their Votes being according to the proportion they had of Shares And this Society was and is entituled The Society for the Mines Royal and they have the Grant and care of Gold Silver Copper c. within 8 English Counties hereafter recited and of all Wales As for the Laws and Rules by which they were managed they are also annexed These Persons thus incorporated by a joynt Stock wrought several Mines with good success The Queen did also in the 7th year of her Reign grant to William Humfreys and Christopher Shute a German all Mines Minerals and Subterranean Treasures except Copperice and Allom which should be found in all other parts of England not mentioned in the former Patent or within the English pole in Ireland by the name of Gold Silver Copper Tin Lead Quicksilver Cadmian Oar or Lapis Calaminaris and all manner of Ewres or Oars simple or pure mixt or compounded for Latten Wire or Steel c. And also on the same 28th of May in the 10th of her Reign the Queen frames the Participants into a Corporation by the name of The Society for the Minerals and Buttery works As for their Laws and Rules they are also annexed with the other This also was look'd upon as so considerable a matter to the Crown that Sir Nicholas Bacon then Lord Keeper the Duke of Norfolk William Earl of Pembroke Robert Earl of Leicester William Lord Cobham Sir William Cecill Sir Walter Myldmay Sir Henry Sidney Sir Francis Jepson Sir William Gerard with 29 more considerable Persons Gentlemen Lawyers Citizens and Foreiners were Participants And this Society consisted of 36 Shares subdividable also into half and quarter parts so that it was capable of 144 Shares And this also by a joynt Stock did effect great things which turned to good advantage both to the King and to the Society THE ARMS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE MINES ROYAL Given Aug. 26 1568. Anno 10. Eliz. 1568 This Coat is blazoned in Page 24. and the other Coat in Page 23. above it As they are Blazon'd Silver with a Mount Vert. A Man working within a Mine with two Hammers and a Lamp all in their proper colours on a Chief Azure A Cake of Copper between a Bezant and a Plate on a Wreath Silver and Azure A Demy man called in Dutch the Schicht Master with an Escocheon on his Breast Or and Azure per Bend inverted in one of his Hands an Instrument called a Wedge and in the other Hand a Compass Gold mantled Silver doubled Azure supported with two Men the one called the Hammer-man with a Hammer on his Shoulder and the other the Smelter with a Fork in his Hand all in proper colours THE ARMS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE MINERAL AND BATTERY WORKS Given also Anno 10. Eliz. As the are Blazon'd The Field Azure upon the Base point Vert a Dorick Argent supported by a Lion and a Gryffon armed and languid Gules On the top of the Pillar a Ducal Crown Or. On the Chief an Annulet Argent between two Bezants of the same The Crest on an Helmet and Wreath Argent and Vert. Two naked Arms and Hands supporting a Cake of Copper proper the Supporters an ancient Man in a Gown wearing an Headpiece on it a Cressent and holding one hand on the Escocheon in the other a Pickax on the other side a Woman holding also the Escocheon with one hand and in the other a Quadrant CHAP. XVIII KING JAMES ABout the second of King James both the Societies thought fit to renew their Charters with some Additional Powers also annexed and then William Earl of Pembroke was Governour to both Societies and so continued till his death in an Annual Election CHAP. XIX CHARLES I. AFter the death of William Earl of Pembroke in the Year 1630 Philip Earl of Pembroke was chosen Governour of both Societies and in this Kings Reign about the Year 1639 there was some Dispute between Sir Hugh Middleton and Sir Richard Price concerning the Mines at Tallabent in Wales whither Royal or not Royal and this was also about 70 years after the Tryal with the Earl of Northumberland Whereupon several Eminent Lawyers subscribed their Opinions hereto also annexed and the matter was soon quieted Then from 1641 to 1647 no Governour was chosen but the Mines in Wales continued working under Mr. Thomas Bushell who made them very serviceable to the Martial Concerns of the King during the Civil Wars CHAP. XX. CHARLES II. IN the Year 1649 Philip dies then his Son Philip now living was chosen Governour of both Companies and in 1662 the Lord Anthony Ashly-Cooper Chancellour of the Exchequer and one of His Majesty's Privy Councellours was joyned as Governour of both Societies with the Earl In 1668 the Earl of Pembroke being willing to quit the Government in respect of his retirement Pr. Rupert Duke of Bavaria and Cumberland Knight of the Order of the Garter and one of His Majesty's Privy Councellours was chosen together with the Lord Ashly-Cooper Governour of both Societies and the Deputy Governours of both Societies are now the Lord Brunker Sir Robert Murray Knight Sir John Pettus Knight Sir Francis Cobb Knight Col. Ashburnam Cofferer to His Majesty Thomas Foley Esquire Edward Swith and Edward Henshaw Esquires The Assistants to both Societies are Col. Ashburnham Edward Smith Paul Foley John Darrell John Wright Edward Henshaw Anthony Knightsbridge Dudly Dudly and Edward York Esquires Henry Kemp Thomas Hayes Roger Norton and Richard Reynoll Gentlemen and Citizens The Auditors Treasurers Register and Serjeant are chosen by the Governours and Assistants as occasion requires There are other Members