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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

induce us to believe the same and indeed our Welch Miners are of that opinion for say they when we approach to the Master vein of a Mine or near to any danger by digging too near the irruption of waters they usuallie here knocking which they call the Knockers or a noise like that which their own Pickaxes make both in expecting profit or shunning danger A Discourse of this is printed by Mr. Bushell which hapned in the Mines at Tallabont in Wales and so the Knockers may be called Numina Mineralia or the Tutelary subterranean spirits of our Mines The third name they gave it after it was Coyned or Minted was Moneta which we English Money and St. Austin says it was derived from Monere to admonish and as it were to warn us that all our disposals of it should be Honest Just Honourable and to Charitable Ends. CHAP. XXVII Of Artificial Metals and Money THe Manner of Adulterating and Sophisticating Metals and Moneys is an Art belonging to Alchimy and not properly the subject of this History But in respect that by the Artifices of that Art our Staple and Standard Coyn is abused the baser Metal being so overlaid or tincturd that the Eye is deceived or so curiouslie intermixed with baser Metal or other Ingredients that the very Judgments of lesser Artists are also deceived especiallie when neither Touch nor Fire only weight can distinguish them from better Metals it is necessarie to have some remedies against such Impostures And it seems there were of these subtilties practised in former Ages for we finde in Poultons Statutes 5 of Hen. 4. cap. 24. these words Item It is ordained and established that none from henceforth shall use to multiply Gold or Silver nor use the craft of Multiplication and if any the same do that he incur the Penaltie of Felony in this case Now that which this Statute calls Multiplying and Multiplication is either by counterfeiting Metals or adding greater Allay then the Standard allows or by clipping or otherwise lessening their due weight and proportions and this Statute had so good effect that our Records take no more notice of such Artists till near 50 years after for Mr. Prinn in his Aurum Reginae saith that in the 34th of the Reign of Henry VI. the King by advice of his Council and Parliament did then grant 4 successive Patents and Commissions to several Knights Citizens of London Chemists Monks and Mass-priests non obstante the Law of Henry IV. to find out the Philosophers stone or Elixir which would not only cure all Diseases and make Men live to the utmost possibility of Nature but likewise transubstantiate other Metals into most true and solid Gold and Silver to the great benefit of the Realm and the enabling the King in very few years to pay all the Debts of the Crown in real Gold and Silver and these Commissions and Patents saith he in his Marginal Notes the King granted to Ecclesiasticks upon this very account that because they were so good Artists in Transubstantiating Bread and Wine in the Eucharist they might as well transubstantiate baser Metals into better But it seems the King upon better advice did in the 35th of his Reign grant new Letters Patents to ten several Considerable Persons of Eminent Qualities therein mentioned to judge and certifie to Him whether the thing were practical or no and whether it would conduce more to the good or hurt of the Kingdom But it seems Mr. Prinn with his indefatigable Labours could not find any Report upon the Patent whether or no the Philosophers stone was found or whether the Kings debts were paid thereby or else he reserved that secret to himself However our Laws take little notice of them till the 7th of Edward VI. in Dier 88. when one Eden confessed himself guilty of Multiplication viz. that he had practised to make the Fifth Essence and the Philosophers stone whereby all Metals may be made Gold and Silver and also that he had accused one Whally then Prisoner in the Tower that he did move and procure him to practise that Art and that Whally had imployed Monie for red wine and other things necessary for that Art and because the offence was but Felony Eden the Principal was pardoned by the General Pardon but Whally as Accessory to the Felony was excepted as one of those who were then in the Tower Now besides the former Reasons this may be added as one very probable why the Queen did frame these Corporations viz. that they might see and inspect those Impostures and Sophistications so destructive to Commutative Justice and to represent the Reformation thereof to Her Self or to those which should succeed Her whether done by Foreiners or Natives Nor was there ever more ground for the same then in this Age where the Arts of this nature are so much practised lest their Delights which in themselves are commendable producing most admirable effects in their several Operations should tempt men to make the innocent and unskilful to receive those things for real and natural which are but adulterated by their Arts. And therefore this History was writ that the Societies may be known and the Persons who at present conduct the same and that their aim is not at the Philosophers stone Elixir or Quintessence which though several in name are one in intent but their chief business is to take care that the productions of our Mines and Metals may go to their right use that is for the publick good And therefore to conclude this First Part whoever shall aim at this Philosophers stone according to the agreement of all Writers therein they must be Men of upright and unblemisht Lives and Conversations free from Vice and practisers of all Moral Vertues Contemners of the World and onely thereby to study the publick good of others and not enriching themselves and from such there is no fear of danger because their Study is onely to do good and not to deceive nor is there much danger in the other who under pretence of gaining this Rarity do but delude themselves and others because their Impostures may soon be discovered by that Wisdom and Care which properly belongs to these Societies and humbly recommended to them THE SECOND PART OF THE HISTORY OF THE Mines Royal. THE SECOND PART OF THE HISTORY of the MINES ROYAL CHAP. I. An Abstract of the Original Grants of the Society of the City of London of and for the MINES ROYAL 1. QUEEN ELIZABETH by Letters Patents dated the 10th of October in the 6th Year of Her Reign did grant unto Houghsetter and Thurland and their Heirs for ever License to search for Mines Oars or Ewres of Gold Silver Copper or Quicksilver in Yorkshire Lancashire Cumberland Westmerland Cornwall Devon Gloucestershire Worcestershire and in Wales and to try and convert the same unto their own profit so as they search not under any Castles Forts c. nor within any Houses Gardens c. of any Subject

Persons to forbear upon pain of Forfeiture c. 7. And for encouragement to search and seize a Moyety to him that seizeth the other Moyety to the King 8. Commanding all Mayors Sheriffs c. to be aiding and assisting all Customers Searchers c. herein And if any Mayor Sheriff c. shall offend herein to be proceeded against in the Star-Chamber by the Attorney General c. CHAP. XIII An Abstract of a Proclamation against importing Latten Wier dated Aug. 19. in the 14th Year of KING CHARLES I. 1. REciting as in the Proclamation precedent against importing of Iron Wier c. prohibits the importation of any Forein Latten Wier 2. Commanding all persons to forbear to import it after Michaelmas day in the said 14th Year of K. Charles I. upon pain of Forfeiture 3. And that all which shall be forfeited shall be carried by the respective Officer who shall seise the same to the several Custom-houses without selling or compounding upon pain c. 4. Commanding all Officers after the said day to seise what shall be imported and not to make any Entry or Composition the one Moyety to the King the other to the Officer who seiseth the same 5. Commanding all Mayors Sheriffs c. to be aiding and assisting to all Customers Searchers c. at all times after the said Michaelmas day for the searching in any Ship Cellar Warehouse c. CHAP. XIV An Abstract of the Reasons for continuing the Brass Manufacture in this Kingdom given in about five Years since to the House of Commons by the Brass Manufactors 1. THat England is in a capacity to be the Staple of Brass Manufactury for it self and Forrein parts by reason of the inexhaustible plenty of the Callamine stone c. 2. That Parlements have always encouraged Manufacturies by means of great Impositions upon Forein Wares whereby the Staple may be here for supplying Forein parts especially of Pins which may also be done with Latten Wier and would tend to great security and advantage c. 3. Seeing the Staple of Pins is now here and not having Latten Wier upon Embargo's or Wars beyond Sea they may for want of Wier lose their Trade c. 4. To prevent which His late Majesty caused a Prohibition of all Forein Latten Wier to continue the Brass work here which was diverted by reason of the late Troubles c. 5. That His Majesty's Customs may not be diminished but rather increased a Prohibition is not so much desired as a larger Imposition upon it proportionable or more to that of the King of Swedens upon Copper whereby we shall be enabled to work as cheap c. 6. The Swedes have since entered into a Corporation with a resolution for some time to be Losers by their Goods intentionally to subvert the Manufacture in England endeavouring to inveigle away our chief Workmen c. 9. These Brass works being once down here five thousand pounds will not set them up again 10. When these Works were last revived the Wier was at 8 li. per 100. but since the Swedes have brought it to 5 li. 5. s. per 100. but upon the decrease of these Works they begin to raise the price and so in time we shall be enforced to take it at their own rates 11. The Complaint of the many Towns in Somersets who live upon it shew the great concernment of it 12. These works being brought to perfection will cause the exportation to be as considerable to the Kings revenue as the Importation now is 13. The continuing of these Works in England will occasion plentie of rough Copper to be brought in and make it the Staple in time of Copper and brass we having the means so plentifully here 14. It is desired that the like encouragement be given him as the Crown of Sweden gives their subjects c. We in England not being able to work upon equal terms which by a Medium of raising the duty here upon the Forein Latten Wier may easily be remedied c. This Kingdom being so fit for it by reason of the Callamint stone which if we use not our selves must either lie wast or be transported and in these works many thousand families will be emploied and maintained and in time may be as fit to be exported by us as 't is now imported when and how they please besides the consideration of the great importance for the defence and strength of this Island c. CHAP. XII The Abstract of an Act against Importing Forein Wooll Cards Card Wier or Iron Wier Anno 14. CAROLI II. Regis REciting that whereas by several Acts of Parlement made in the 3d. Year of Edwerd I.V. and in the 39th of Queen Elizabeth and several former Statutes no Cards for Wooll nor Iron Thred or White Wier should be imported by reason many Families of poor people by that Manufacture were maintained Notwithstanding contrary to the said Statutes many Cards and much Wier have been brought in c. Be it therefore Enacted that no Forein Wooll Cards or Card Wier be imported nor any old Wier put upon new Boards to be sold upon the Penalties following viz. upon Forfeiture of the same or the Value thereof the one Moyety to the King and the other to such person as shall first seise or sue for the same c. Provided this Act extend not to hinder any one of Wooll Cards to cause them to be mended for their own use or to sell or transport them being old and over-worn CHAP. XVI The second Opinion of other eminent Lawyers concerning Mines Royal. ALthough the Gold or Silver contained in the base Metal of a Mine in the Lands of a Subject be of less Value then the base Metal yet if the Gold or Silver do countervail the charge of the Refining it or be of more worth then the base Metal spent in Refining it THIS IS A MINE ROYAL and as well the base Metal as the Gold and Silver in it belong to the Prerogative of the Crown 16 CAR. I. 9 Feb. 1640. John Glanvill E Harbert Ralph Whitfield Oli. St. Johns 25 Feb. 1640. John Herne Christ. Fulwood Harb Grimston Edw. Bagshaw Jo. White Jo. Glover Ja. Haward 26 Feb. Eus Andrews Ed. Prideaux John Maynard Tho. Culpeper 27 July 1641. CHAP. XVII Rules Agreed upon by the Societies of the Mines Royal and Mineral Battery-works concerning the letting of Leases to Owners Discoverers or Undertakers of such Mines as hold Gold or Silver and the Manner and Conditions of the Leases 1. IF any Owner or Proprietor do discover any Mines Royal in his ground he shall have as many Leases as he pleaseth he covenanting for every Lease according to Conditions underwritten 2. If any Farmer or Possessor do discover a Mine Royal in the Land which he useth which was never wrought he shall have the Moietie of the profits and the Proprietor the other Moietie if they will jointly work and in that case a Lease shall be made to both of