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B01872	A just and true remonstrance of His Majesties mines-royall in the principality of Wales, presented by Thomas Bushell Esquire, farmer of the said mines-royall, to His Maiestie.	Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing B6247; ESTC R170180	13,142	34

works lately discovered by Gods providence to Thomas Bushell Esquire Farmer of his Majesties Mines-Royall in these parts That the said Master Bushell at his inestimable charge having cut six hundred Fathom thorow the Rock at the lowest levels North and South for discovering the lost veine of Cum-sum lock lying East and West two hundred Fathom thorow the Mountain of Tallibont at sixty Fathom perpendicular three severall Addits at Koginean one above another twenty and thirty Fathom center another at the Darren to come under the Romans work at an hundred Fathom center another at Bryn LLoyd fifty Fathom in length and thirty Fathom center working day and night for the Drayning of the water which formerly in the time of Customer Smith and Sr. Hugh Middleton in their working of the Mines-Royall was never used they onely working upon the Superficies of the Earth the works being drowned with water before they could sink to the best of the vein both for quantity and quality and so the charge made to exceed the benefit which danger is prevented by the aforesaid Addits and the Royall Mines become more hopefull especially by the assistance of his Majesties Mint for the speedy payment of all those that are imployed in the said works and Mr. Bushells own invention to save Wood by reducing the Ore into Lead and Silver with Turffe and Sea-cole Charked which happy invention had it not been found out the works must needs have been left unwrought the Countrey not able to have supplyed necessary Fewell And further by the prohibition of transporting Ore unwrought that holdeth silver worth the refining which His Majestie in his Princely wisdom saw to be very prejudiciall even to the utter overthrow of his Mines-Royall We have therefore great reason to be confident that his way of working with the restraint of transporting Ore will in short time greatly increase the Bullion of this Kingdom for the honour of the King and good of the Common-wealth together with the employment of many hundred poore people which would be otherwise an unsupportable burthen to this barren Countrey who by their present labour in these Mines are able to subsist with their Family and thousands more might be daily set on work if Mr Bushells undertakings in the Mines-Royall may be confirmed for a certaine time by this present High Court of Parliament Miners David Fowles William Rashly Henry Cockler David Bebb. Ioseph Iefferies George Turner Robert Lowning Thomas Fletcher David Evans George Dixon Hugh Mason David ap Richard David Loyd David Williams Henry Emblin Maurice Taylor Iohn Emblin Edward Reece Hugh Reece William Davids George Scotsmer Thomas Brickhead William Griffith Peter Baltiser Francis Pierce Maurice Lewis Peter Edriser Edward Blewys Rob. Emblin Rob. Tailor David Iinkins Ioseph Acherson Thomas Blewys Michael Sanders Morgan Williams Thomas Clocker Thomas Green Barthol Clocker Francis Fisher Hugh Benn Iohn Mason George Tickle. Iohn Mason Iohn Fisher Edmund Poole Edward Bebb. Iohn Mason sen William Ficharett Evan Thomas Iohn Harris Will. Tyson Watkin Reece Iohn Smith Morgan Pritchet Griffith Iohn William Reece Iohn Tuddar Iohn Huson Philip Benn Thomas Iames. with two hundred more whom for brevity we omit to name Moniers Henry Such Iohn Corbet Richard Arnold Refiners Iohn Estopp David Estopp Samuel Iohnson Edward Gibbon Thomas Parker Arthur Elissa Smelters Thomas Botham Hugh Iames. Griffith Evans Iohn Watkin Iinkin Owen Iohn Epslie Iohn Evans Iohn Lewes Iames Meredith Washers Iohn Wringe Morgan Iohn Lewis Davy Iohn Iohn Iinkins Morgan Griff. Iohn Edmund Symons Reece Morgan Charles Williams Thomas Adams TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE the LORDS and others of His MAIESTIES most Honourable Privie Councell ACcording to your Honours command we have enquired and considered how the Mines-Royall were left to Master Bushell by the Lady Middleton and doe in all humility declare that the silver Mines were not worth the working untill M. Bushell at his great charge discovered rich Ore in the adjacent mountains which in all likelihood will both increase the Bullion and by his way of working in short time give his Majestie a true triall what the invaluable riches of these his Welch mountains are for whereas the Mines in these parts were formerly wrought by Pumps so growing deepe were left drowned with water Master Bushell cuts thorow the main Rocks at the lowest levell to an hundred fathome perpendicular according to the German manner of working which though chargeable yet certaine having foure severall Addits which he continueth driving day and night into foure severall mountaines his industry also hath outstript former times for by melting the poore fusible Ore with the rich he produceth a third part more of silver with the same charge and for accommodating the workes with all materials fit for Mines Royall hee hath spared no cost about repairing the Milles hath also built in his Majesties Castle of Aberystwith a faire Mint hath contracted with Merchants of our owne and other Nations to supply the peoples necessity with Corne and other provisions and payeth the Miners and carriers at the Scales and doubteth not to make them able Pyoners and fit Souldiers to do his Majestie and their Countrey service upon any assault of an enemy All which we commend to your honourable consideration praying c. Your Lordships humbly to be commanded Ioseph Hexsteter chiefe Steward of the Mines Samuel Reynish Assay-Masters of the Mint Water Barkesby Assay-Masters of the Mint Humphrey Owen Clerke of the Mines DIE SABBATI 14. Aug. 1641. WHereas this house hath been informed that Thomas Bushell Esquire undertaker of his Majesties Mines-Royall in the County of Cardigan by his great charge and industry in cutting Addits hath gained His Majesties old drowned and forsaken works of Tallybont and other workes and made new discoveries of Royall Mines there which are already very considerable And whereas divers persons of quality encouraged by his Majesties Letters to them directed do intend to adventure great sums of money in the said works which in time if well incouraged may prove of great Consequence both for honour and profit to His Majestie and the Kingdome And whereas also it appeareth unto this House by divers Affidavits and Certificats of credit that some persons ill affected to these honourable and publike services who in time may receive deserved punishments have disturbed the possession of the said Tho. Bushell in some of his Majesties Mines-Royall and Edifices appertaining to the Royall works and have plucked up divers Plumps cast in the rubbish drowned and so much as in them did lye destroyed the said works so as it hath been a labour of four yeers night and day to recover the same And that also the said Thomas Bushell hath been disturbed in the getting of Turf and Peat for the Service of His MAIESTIES works being an invention of his own very commendable and commodious for the preserving of Wood which hath been heretofore by the former undertakers much wasted in those parts Now for the remedy of the

A Just and True REMONSTRANCE OF HIS MAJESTIES MINES-ROYALL IN THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES Presented By Thomas Bushell Esquire Farmor of the said Mines-Royall to his MAIESTIE SHREWSBURY Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. Most high and mighty Soveraign WHereas Your Majesty was graciously pleased not onely to command the imployment of my Service in Your Highnesse Mines-Royall occasioned by some discourse of them at Enston-Rock Your Majestie vouchsafing to honour that place with your presence but also to give your Majestie a true relation what they were when I entred upon them what they are since at present and of what hope for the future if diligently pursued and cherisht by your Royall aspect In obedience whereunto I do in all humility affirme That the Mines at my first entrance were drowned with water and consequently not worth the working as by severall certificates hereunto annexed appeareth which did then much disencourage my undertakings but considering how deeply your Majesties many favours had engaged me the meanest of your Subjects I conceived my selfe obliged to adventure upon the undermining of the adjacent Mountains thereby to make triall whether those Mines if once discovered at the surface of the earth would not prove richer in their deeper search of which having received severall opinions from the best mineral-Mineral-masters of our age as Sir Francis Godolphin M. Alexander Roberts M. Ioseph Hexsteter and M. Walter Barksby with divers others well practised in that way encouraging me therein I then resolved to hazzard my fortune on them assuring my selfe that all Mines and Minerals were to be discovered by some one or other because originally created for mans use and Gods glory and thus having setled my former irresolute thoughts I began with a cheerefull heart to cut thorow five severall mountains at their lowest levell which by the Art of Dialling appeared to be some sixtie some eightie and some an hundred fathoms perpendicular and so continued these battery-works foure yeers night and day before my hopes could give me any happy assurance that the Minerall-beds of these subterraneall riches lay fast locked in those barren Rocks untill my charge grew so great that I became pitied of my friends and insulted over by my enemies which did anew perplex my minde yet when I considered that I was not born for my selfe but for the Service of God your Majestie and my Countrey and that I had not only that heavenly guider to direct me but also your sacred Majestie to encourage me I then began to cast off my former justly conceived fears and notwithstanding any opposition or seeming disswasive arguments to pitch on this resolution that better it were for me to suffer shipwrack in my poore estate and credit then that such treasures should lye buried in the BOWELS of those vast mountains and not be made both known and beneficiall to your gracious Majestie being inherent to your prerogative as by the Declaration under the hands of learned Counsell hereunto annexed appears which hills although large in extent yet are not considerable in herbage nor fit for any other plough then the Miners sledge gad and twybill That which first wrought in me a desire to try and fathome those Mines was a sensible discourse delivered me by a Portugal in presence of Sir Francis Godolphin by whose death I lost the hope of a most knowing Partner who had for many yeers been imployed under the King of Spain in his West India Mines purporting that if his Master were Soveraign Lord of those Brittish hills as is your Majestie he should not doubt but to make them a second Indies deeply protesting that the greatest riches in those Mountaines lay in their lowest levels which I finde to be true by undeniable experience in those five mountaines For by this way of driving thorow the depth of Rocks we are not onely freed from the danger and deluge of waters but have also discovered the veines to prove richer in quantity and quality some containing twenty pound some fifteene some tenne and some six in Silver in the Tunne of Lead upon the great Pest which are answerable to most of the Mines of the King of Spaine the Emperour of Germany and the Duke of Saxony finding moreover that by mixing and smelting these severall veines together the one proves a good additament to the other and becomes thereby a meanes to advance the Mines-Royall and in them the good of your Kingdome and Subjects We have many gracious testimonies how much the Almighty is pleased with these our innocent labours by continuall preservation of the workmen amidst their hourely dangers especially in one accident which lately befell by driving an Addit into one of those mountaines called Tallibont but b●cause I was no eye-witnesse of it I humbly desire your Majesties perusall of the narration thereof as I received it being then in London from a Minister resident Preacher to the Minerall men hereunto annexed And as I am bound to give to Caesar that which is Caesars so must I further humbly acknowledge your Majesties large addition to your former Royall favours in granting mee the meanest of your Creatures liberty to give your Majesties impression to such Silver as the Mole-like Miners cast out of the Earth for their speedier payment they being the men who make the Rocks their resting place and expect no other reward or benefit for their sweaty browes then what they gaine from out of the darke Cavernes of the earth by importunate labour And for declaration of part of my poore indeavours your humblest suppliant begs a perusall of the annexed remonstrance presented by your honourable and grave ministers of Justice and other noble Gentlemen of quality residing within your Principality of Wales whose eyes have been spectators as your servant a diligent labourer in those Minerall Vineyards And having thus far traced out d●ved into the secrets of natures treasures and by the influence of your Majesties favours overcome those amazing difficulties which hindred the entrance of these great adventures I then for better improvement of the works caused a meeting of Myners Monyers Smelters Refiners to consult debate and try whether fuell of turfe would not seperate the oare extract the silver reduce the litharge as well as the vast expence of whole Forrests of woods formerly consumed for that purpose and upon an exact triall made thereof by altering the earthy substance of turfe into charkie cynders we found by infallible experience that your Majesties Turfaries will furnish Your Mines Royall with Fuell to all future ages So that there remaineth nothing more to make the inside of these barren Mountaines produce an addition of gems to your Crown but to finish the building of your princely foundation by your Royall recommendation thereof to your High Court of Parliament whose judgements will quickly discerne how much these Mines would redound to the generall good your Majesties gracious Letters