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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

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 COMMON-WEALTH London Printed in the Yeere 1649. THat whereas the right and interest in and to all Mynes Royall which are fountains of the Treasure of the Nation hath alwaies been an undoubted and legall right belonging to the Crown and alwaies enjoyed by severall Letters Patents and Farms taken from the Crown and to that purpose in all grants of Lands from the Crown the said Mynes either by expresse word or else by implication of Law have alwaies been excepted and reserved for that it hath been found by experience that the owners of Land who receive a constant profit by the Herbage and other fruits of the Earth above ground are seldome willing to adventure any part of their fortune for discovering the hid Treasure in the bowels of the Earth And whereas all Subjects were invited and encouraged by severall Proclamations from his late Majesty and his Royall Father King James to spend their times and pains in discovery of the said Mines And I Thomas Bushell having had many yeers relation to that great Secretary of Nature the late Lord Chancellor Bacon and thereby from him learnt many secrets in discovering and extracting Minerals and that it was not onely the harmliest gain and greatest good to the Common-wealth but the principall study and industry of the best bred persons of other Nations and the honourablest improvement that this world is capable of which was the first inducement that encouraged me to look after the search thereof being by good and learned Councell satisfied touching the legallity of the title and also having found out a new way of discovering the concealed treasure of the Earth with more certainty and lesse hazard by means of a Portugall with whom I advised and likewise was assured that in the Mountains of Broomfloid Tallibont Geginan Combmerven the Darren there was great quantities of Silver Lead of which I informed his Majesty moving him to undertake the worke but his Majesty for some reasons to himselfe known declined the same and command●d me the Lady Middleton holding the said Mynes Royall in Wales by vertue of a Grant from King James to buy the same and to take the Mynes which I accordingly did paying unto the Lady Middleton 400 l. in hand and 400 l. per annum during the continuation of her interest therein by vertue of the said Grant having first obtained from his said Majesty upon my engagement to cut through the said five Mountains at My own charge by a new way of discovery not onely a confirmation of the said Letters Patents formerly granted to Sir Hugh Middleton together with the severall Leases from the Governours Assistants and Society of the City of London but also an absolute engagement upon his Majesties honour and under his Signet and privy Seale for the performance of any other Act of Grace or assistance that I or my Counsell should at any time desire not being detrimentall to his Honour or the Common-wealth as by the ensuing Grant appeareth CHARLES R. TRusty and welbeloved We having taken into consideration your late Relation concerning your proceedings and intentions for the perfecting of that great work happily by you begun in our County of Cardigan in Our Principality of Wales concerning those hopefull Mynes by you discovered approving well of your beginnings proceedings and intentions We have thought good out of Our Royall disposition to the encouraging of you and all such as are studious or industrious to do to Vs or Our Commonwealth profitable service to assure you by these Our Letters that you shall not onely by Our protection peaceably enjoy the Contract and bargaine by you made with the Lady Elizabeth Middleton concerning the said Mynes with all things thereunto belonging but also be well assured that both you your Agents Assistants or Coadjutors shall from time to time have all the furtherance and favour We can vouchsafe to you or them And for the better encouraging of you to go cheerfully and confidently on with the works when your learned Cou●c●ll at the Law shall advise you to pray any further Act or Acts from Vs whereby the designe may be advanc'd and you and your Assistants secured you shall finde Vs ready to grant unto you any your lawfull desires And in the mean time these Our Letters shall be a good and sufficient testimony of Our Royall intentions towards you and Our good wishes to the prosperity of your undertakings Given at Our Court at Whitehall under our Signet the three and twentieth day of February in the twelfth yeer of Our Raigne To Our trusty and welbeloved Subject and Servant Thomas Bushell Esqu This is entred in the Signet Booke 23 Febr. 1636. Ja. Store And further to prevent all disturbances which might discourage my proceedings His Majesty gave Warrant to Mr. Atturney generall to proceed by information in the Starch amber against all such as should be so great enemies to their Country as to interrupt so publique a good The copy of which Warrant followeth CHARLES R. TRusty and welbeloved We Greet you well Whereas we have taken into our serious consideration of what consequence the probability of increasing our Mynes Royall may prove to Vs and Our publique weale being diligently searcht into And for the better incouragement of Our loving Subjects and speedy pay of the poore Myners Erected a Mynt in Our Castle of Aberustwith and intrusted Our designe to the sole care and Government of Our Servant Thomas Bushell whose industri●us proceedings We so well like and approve of that Our resolution is absolutely bent to further the prosecution of his endeavours on Our behalf for the perfecting so good and pious a work As We will and Command you that you take speciall care that you speedily proceed in Our Court of Starchamber against such malicious persons as have or doe goe about not onely to Eclypse Our Prerogative in Myneralls and so frrustrate Our Princely Pleasure in a Common good for the benefit of their own private ends by endeavouring to make those Mynes theirs which hold Silver worth the refyning and of Right belonging unto Vs But also such persons as have of late practised Combinations of Affronts against those intrusted by Vs and Our Mynes Royall to Our dishonour As by the Certificates hereunto annexed will informe you