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An extract by Mr. Bushell of his late abridgment of the Lord chancellor Bacons philosophical theory in mineral prosecutions published for the satisfaction of his noble friends that importunately desired it.
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Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Atlantis.
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Johns and the Lord Say have vouchsafed to approve of it for a general good My Lord these sufferings in my Reputation Life and Fortune by this imprâ—sonment I was resolved to submit unto in a silent patience But some of my distressed friends fearing the deep wounds in my head from that unhappy Arrest might prove to be mortal have occasioned this my Adresse upon a confident hope that the Parliaments Wisdom will not deny a favor of such just concernment to your Lordships Merits and the Lord Viscount Sayes if their more weighty affairs can but permit them leasure to pry into that Politick Act of State whereby Garrisons were acquired for great sums and then it is conceived your Lordships care in securing Lundy Isle will redound to your greater Honour when they shall consider that much Piracy might have been committed in that place without controul which was surrendred through your Prudencies without any other condition than one person to be protected until the possession of his estate were restored to satisfie the just debts of Your Lordships most humble Servant Thomas Bushell April 18. 1659. His Majesties Answer to Mr. Bushel concerning the Surrender of Lundy BUSHEL WE have perused thy Letter in which We find thy care to answer the Trust We at first reposed in thee Now since the place is inconsiderable in it selâ— and yet may be of gâ—eat advantage unto you in respect of your Mines We do hereby give you leave to use your discretion in it with this Caution That you take example by Our Selves and be not over-credulous of vain promises which hath made Us great only in Our Sufferings and will not discharge your Debts From Newcastle 14 July 1646. Mr. Bushels Articles upon his Surrender of the Isle of Lundy The Propositions Articles Conditions Ingagements and Agreements made concluded and assented unto the Tenth of September in the year 1647. between his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight Lord General and the Lord Viscount Say and Seal of the one part and Thomas Bushel Esq Governour of the Islâ—nd of Lundy for the Kings Majesty of the other part in perfuance of several Orders of the Committee of both Kingdoms and an Order or Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament as followeth FIrst It is agreed that the said Mr. Bushel shall Surrender and Deliver up the said Island unto the said Lord Say or unto such person as he shall appoint and all Ammunition and Magazin there And that in consideration thereof The Delinquency of the said Mr. Bushel shall be taken off and all Sequestration in respect thereof discharged and he the said Mr. Bushel shall be restored unto his Estate and such right as he or his Assigns had in the Mines of Devon Cornwal and Wales before these troubles and all the persons with him in the Island and not being persons of quality shall be pardoned of their Delinquency and suffered to live quietly at home not acting any thing contrary to the Authority of Parliament Secondly that Mr. Bushel shall be protected from Arrest until he obtain the possession of his said Estate THO. FAIRFAX The Lord Fairfax Letter to the Speaker of the Parliament Master Speaker I Cannot but be sensible of any thing that reflects on the Honour of the Parliament as on my self who for theâ—r service have granted Articles to several persons as importancy of affairs required and particularly to your Petitioner Mr. Bushel but of late there hath been some obstruction in due execution of them to the prejudice of such as cast themselves on your protection which Mr. Bushel more readily did in hope of performance of those Articles made upon his surrender of the Isle of Lundy with the Lord Say and my self on the behalf of the Parliament then concived most reasonable as his papers herewith do expresse therefore intreat at your first opportunity you would acquaint the Honorable House with the contents of my humble desires which is that they would make good Mr. Bushels Articles and be pleased to recompence his great sufferings with their timely assistance that he may be better enabled to satisfie his Creditors which he cannot do but by persute of such Mineral discoveries as Art and Experience hath taught him which will not only be their advantage in securing those debts but render him more capable of doing considerable service to the Common-wealth And in so just an Act you will preserve the Justice and Honour of the Parliament and his who hath ever been Your most humble Servant T. Fairfax Bath 29 July 1659 To the Right Honorable WILLIAM LENTHAL Speaker to the PARLIAMENT Right Honorable MY old Master the Lord Chancellor Bacon would often say That the magnificence of a Parliament consisted much in the presence of their Prince and that the reflection of his Royal Affection was as a foil to render them as Diamonds of greater value in their Countries service If those natural flaws of Self-interest were not frequently known to become a motive to make them forfeit their Trust and subvert their Obedience which invited that Lords observation to reflect upon such a Model of new Laws as no forc'd power should be able to take away the Regality of Soveraign Rights nor their Prerogative have a Medium to intrench upon the privilege of their Subjects and that his Philosophy should be the sole revenue to support the Magi of so magnificent a Machine without any other imposition on the people than its attendance upon Providence and to change the temper of loose and avaritious minds into Moral and Divine vertues But that Lord being commanded by King James to write the life of Henry the seventh and his great imployments in State affairs were the divertisements which retarded his inclination to that study and left only the Essay of his Mineral Philosophy to support his Solomons House described in his New Atlantis as a rest whereby the successe of his other experiments might be judged And now most Honored Sir you having reâ—eived the Lord Fairfax his Letter to the Parliament in answer of mine touching the making good my Articles as also to recompence my great sufferings hath made me so presume on your Lordship as to beseech you to patronize this publication of my proceedings and the rather for that I perceive by the weekly Occurrence Your Honor hath sent a Letter of thanks to the Lord Fairfax in the Name of the whole House for his late opportune service done to the Honorable Parliamenr which hath emboldned me the more to put your Honor in mind of a result of the said Lords Letter directed to your self and dated the 29 of July last lest the interpretation of your Honors Letter should be held in the Diary of a Complement when the Lord Fairfax his Letter is laid aside which concerns his and the Parliaments Honor to make good and because his Lordship did me the favor to send me a true Copy of what was writ I have made bold humbly to present you
with the grounds and reasons at large which induc'd him to it that the Parliaments wisdom might take a more present care of the whole matter rather than the glory of such a work should perish for want of a right understanding And if it may seem to any Person of that Honorable House too great a favor for me to have my Articles made good I shall humbly pray no more than that their Justice may protect my Mineral adventures at Rowpits upon the Forest of Mendip and other deserted places and to defend my Feoffees in trust who have resolved to make a true trial of my Lords Philosophy in that affair since most Men reputed me not well in my wits for attempting the seeming impossibility of recovering their drowned conditions otherwise those publick spirits will doubtlesse inevitably suffer From whence God lead your Lordship by the hand and all others that will take the pains to read the ensuing Treatise for then my Genius invites me to believe I shall have their unanimons consent to an irrevocable Act like the Medes and Persians which is and shall be the Prayer of Your most Humble Servant Tho. Bushel Right Honorable GRatitude having obliged my Soul to serve such a surviving Friend as your Lordship hath ever been to the memory of my Lord Bacons Philosophy and now finding general fame to give out that the vicissitude of State Affairs are become dubious ever since the French Embassie and other unbyassed occurrences were made publick I held it my duty to tender the conception of your humble Servant how to manage a safe retreat for your Lordships perpetual Honor which is in a word my Lord to get the start of some mens understand compliance by casting the faculties of your divine part upon the Heroick nature of your Princes clemency and with the same sense of your Lordships unparalleld language in the publick Senate to lead the judicious to the like obedience rather than the effusion of more bâ—ood should be spilt by the dangerous consequence of a forein Invasion and then it were impossible if such an Act of gallantry proceeding from those pious Principles might spring from your Lordships undaunted Spirit but that it must meet with the splendor of a Princes favor and mercy in their greatest glory I write not this my Lord from my own head but that I have often heard my Lord Bacon discourse the like upon the same Subject and that the way to out-viâ—… Princes rage in hiâ— conceived wrong by a politick prud nce was to blunt the edge of his revengeful Sword with such an opportune submission as might add to his greater Honor in pardoning the crime than punishing the offence and especially when his Conscience must bear him witnesse he is restored to three Kingdoms by such a stratagem from the wisdom of your Lâ—rdshâ—ps and might in time by the same scales know the persons that betrayed his Cabinet Counsels which were a work without compare and as miraculous as meritorious before God and Man for my Lord his Royal Father would frequently aver that it was below his nature to take revenge upon an open Enemy but th se which betrayed the secrets of his trust he could not tell what to say in the punishment of them unlesse God should direct his heart but must leave such to the stroak of divine Iustice In a word my Lord I have nothing to do with Court-holy-water nor State Policy but through Providence and your Honors assistance to Crown my old Master the Lord Viscount Verulam King of Philosophy for his unparalleld knowledg in Mineral discoveries and to support thereby the magnificent Monument of his Atlantis above those that endeavour to lay his Honor in the dust without the participant purse of any person than the breath of such Senators as should proceed from your Lordships abilities and therefore I shall humbly beg pardon for this bold Address and remain as obliged Your Lordships ever devoted Servant Thomas Bushell Mr. Bushel's Mineral Overtures Right Honourable ACcording to your commands I do here present your Lordships with a brief Narrative of the Lord Chancellor BACONS directions to my self for the management of his Mineral experiments in case his own Death should stop his intended progresse therein before he could practically discover the true generation and spreading qualities of Minerals I being then his Menial Servant King IAMES having already promised to grant his Lordship all his own discoveries of Mines Royal and also of any drowned Lands or deserted works by him to be recovered within the space of Forty years paying him the fifth according to the usual custome of the King of Spain in his Mines of the West-Indies and of other Princes after the expiration of fourteen years first granted gratis towards the great â—arge of his new Invention to facilitate the obtaining the Mineral Riches of this Land occasioned by a learned Speech his Lordship hath lately made to his Majesty Count GUNDAMORE and divers of the Nobility being present concerning the rise and magnificent growth of the China Trade wherein by a perfect demonstration he made it appear that the invention of one man by his help ng the Defects of Nature with the Materials of Art and the patience of three Ages industrie to bring its concoction to perfection became the great Revenew of that Empire and hath been for this thousand years the only honour of that people as well as their livelyhood and Patrimony In which he seriously protested That his utmost ambition in the affairs of this world affected no greater glory than to leave the real fruits of his best service to his Soveraign Honour to his Name his written Works to Posterity and by such Treasures as his own Industry should raise out of his Mineral expeâ—iments to accomplish the noble Design and Fabrick of his SOLOMONS House described in his new Atlantis annexed to his Naâ—ural Historie seeing that the Corporation of the Mines Royal instituteâ— by his Majesty consisting of Lords and Gentlemen of qualâ—ty produced but wâ—ak or very small advanâ—ages to the Revenew of the Crown or the publick good although his Lordship did then really bâ—lieve it very possible for himself if qualified thereto by his Râ—gal Power to bâ—ing it so to passe in one Age that the barrenest Mountains in this Nâ—tion should produce such store of Treasure by their Royal vâ—ins as we need not envie the King of Spain's felicity in his Potozi or any other Mines in America thereupon by way of similitude added this That as a State whose present dimensions were but small might happily serve as a foundation for an ample Monarch if all regard of private propriety were laid aside and every Member thereof would diligently devote his particular care to the publick benefit even so it mighâ— happen in the advancement of the discoveries of those Mineral Riches supposed to lie hid in the bosomes of the most barren Mountains when the whole industry of the many several persons