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<HEAD><Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q></HEAD>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE</P>
</FIGURE> &para; By the King. &leaf; A Proclamation concerning Royall Mynes.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie, hauing both by the iudgement and opi|nion</HI> of &s;undry per&s;ons of &s;kill, and by diuers trials and good experiments, receiued aduerti&s;ement of great probabilities, and a&s;&s;ured hopes of finding within His Realmes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> many rich Mynes of Siluer and other Mettals, hauing in them Siluer and Gold, which by his Maie|&s;ties lawes and prerogatiue Royall, do of right belong to his Imperiall Crowne; and hauing receiued diuers Ouertures and Propo&s;itions, for the di&s;couering and working the &s;ame, hath beene plea&s;ed (as in a matter of &s;peciall importance for the enriching of his Kingdomes) not onely to commend the &s;ame ot the &s;erious con&s;ideration of His priuie Coun&s;ell, but maturely to con&s;ult and adui&s;e thereon him&s;elfe, and in the end, after many and deliberate debatements thereof, hath with the adui&s;e of His priuie Coun&s;ell re&s;olued vpon the&s;e en&s;uing Articles.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that Lea&s;es for one and twentie yeeres &s;hall be made vnder the great Seale of <HI>England</HI> for any the &s;aid Mynes, vnto &s;uch as will vndertake the &s;ame, either in his Maie&s;ties owne lands and &s;oyle, or in the lands and &s;oyle of any others within either of the &s;aid Realmes or Dominion, except the Countie of <HI>Cardigan.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, That for encouragement of the &s;aid Le&s;&s;ees, they &s;hall hold the &s;ame two yeeres from the date of the &s;aid Lea&s;es free from any rent or payment to his Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P>Thirdly, in ca&s;e the &s;aid Le&s;&s;ees &s;hall di&s;couer any &s;uch Myne within the limits and bounds contei|ned in their Lea&s;es, and after opening thereof, the Veine &s;hall be found to runne into any other grounds adiacent, and being without the limits and bounds conteined in the &s;aid Lea&s;es, the Le&s;&s;ees &s;hall be enabled to follow and worke after the &s;ame Veine into all other places (excepting Mynes ope|ned by others in the &s;ame ground, into which the Veine runneth, before the di&s;couery made by &s;uch Le&s;|&s;ees) alwayes allowing vnto &s;uch owners and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of the ground for the time being, into which the
<PB REF="2">Ueine runneth, and is followed, double the value of the dammage they &s;hall &s;u&s;teine any way, the &s;ame to be valued by the two next Iu&s;tices of Peace; and in ca&s;e that by colour hereof any wrong be maliciou&s;|ly done, then further recompen&s;e to be giuen to the partie grieued vpon his complaint to the Kings Ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;tie, or the Lords of the priuie Coun&s;ell, as the qualitie of the cau&s;e &s;hal merit. And the &s;aid Lea&s;es &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enteine &s;uch other ample Priuiledges, Clau&s;es and Couenants as &s;halbe fit, and may be&s;t encourage the the &s;aid workes.</P>
<P>Fourthly, to the intent the &s;aid Mynes &s;hal not lie vnprofitable, as heretofore, his Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure is, That the &s;aid Vndertakers &s;hall &s;o prepare and begin their worke with &s;uch conuenient expedition, as that from the end of two yeeres after the date of their Lea&s;es, they &s;hall allow and pay his Maie&s;tie the proportion of Siluer and other Mettall hereafter mentioned, and &s;hall effectually proceede therein with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uch competent &s;tocke and number of workemen, as the &s;cituation, richne&s;&s;e, and condition of the Mynes &s;hall require, and &s;hall yeeld to his Maie&s;tie from the end of the &s;aid two yeeres, the tenth part of all the Gold, Siluer, Copper, and Lead extracted and refined, which &s;hall proceede or come of the &s;ayd Mynes. And for the more ea&s;e and expedition of &s;uch as &s;hall &s;ue for any &s;uch Lea&s;es, the Lord Trea&s;urer and Chancellor of the Exchequer within the Realme of <HI>England,</HI> or either of them in the vacancy of the other. &s;hall and may, without other &s;uit to his Maie&s;tie, appoint the limits and bounds to be contained in each mans Lea&s;e, and giue order accordingly to his Maie&s;ties Attourney generall. And his Maie&s;tie in fa|uour to the owners of the lands, within which the &s;ayd Mynes are, is plea&s;ed, that they, or &s;uch as they &s;hall nominate, be preferred to the &s;aid Lea&s;es before all others, &s;o as they attend the &s;aid Lord Trea&s;u|rer or Chancellor, and take the &s;ame within three Moneths after the publi&s;hing of this his Royall Pro|clamation in the Countie where the &s;aid lands lie. And in ca&s;e they doe not attend and take the &s;ame within that &s;pace, then &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall be admitted to take Lea&s;es thereof, as &s;hall fir&s;t make &s;uit for the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at the Court at Wan&s;teede,</HI> <DATE><HI>the tenth day of Iuly, in the two and twentieth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. 1624.</P>
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