The Miner's Guide, ... Selected, arranged and printed verbatim from the works of Hardy and Houghton. To which is added: a new article and a copy of the Inquisition taken at Ashburn ... in the 16th year of the Reign of King Edward the 1st, etc

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O.K.K M8H THE JEitter'g <§\xfot OR COMPLETE MINER; CONTAINING The Articles and Customs of the High Peak and Wapentake of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. arranged and Printed (verbatim), from the works of Hardy and Houghton. TO WHICH IS ADDED; A New Article and a copy of the Inquisition taken at Ashburn, Derbyshire, in the 16th year of the Reign of KING EDWARD the 1st, as examined with the original in the Bundles of the Exchequer. Also two Engravings, with an illustration on the art of Leveling, for the more effectually bringing up Soughs, draining Mines, fye. Unius Labor, multorum laborem allevat. •Printed and Published by /. Cotes, Wirksworth, and -sold by Mess. B. Crosby and Co. No. 4 Stationers -Court, London. MMMKWta .1810. DEDICATION. The Publisher humbly inscribes this TREATISE, to the Farmers of his Majesty s Mine? al Duties; and to the Miners and Maintainers of Mines , with in the High Peak and Wapentake of Wirksworth, in Derbyshire.

WIRKSWORTH, Feb. lith, 1810. A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. A Mr. John Alsop Jun: Lea, Derbyshire. Benjamin Alsop Sen. Carsington. Benjamin Andrews, Wirksworth. John Andrews. Anthony Allen, Winster. John Andrews, Middleton. John Allen, Wensley. B. John Bower Esq. Attorney, Chesterfield. Mr. Wm. Brittlebank, Attorney, Winster. Andrew Brittlebank. Buxton, Quorne. Matthew Bacon, Carsington'. Benjamin Bunting, Bonsall. Robert Burton, Bonsall. James Bunting Charles Bunting. Wm. Brookes, Middleton. John Buxton, Cromford. Ralph Blackwall. Wm Boden. Abel Boden. Thomas Boden Sen. Thomas Boden Jun. George Boden. Anthony Britland. Thomas Buckley, Matlock. Thomas Birds, Eyam. John Barber, Castleton. C. Mr. Robert Clayton, Bonsall. T. Collinson, (Barmaster), Wirksworth, Mr. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. V Mr, Joseph Collinson Jun.

Wirksworth. John Clarke Jun. Ible. Adam Chadwick, Winster. Wm. Chadwick, Bonsall. George Cantrell, Wetton. D. Mr, John Dakeyne, Attorney, Darley Dale. James Dakeyne. Thomas Dore, Winster. Wm. Dawson, Cromford. E. Mr, George Eaton, Cromford, Wm. Else, Darley. F John Frost, Wirksworth. Wm. Fearn, Brassington. Moses Fearn, Griff. John Frost, Winster. Henry Fearn, Bonsall. Abraham Frost, Bonsall. Jacob Flint, Wensley. Richard Fearn, Brassington. Mr, G Philip Gell Esq. Hopton, (M. P.) Philip Gell Esq. Wirksworth. Rev. T. Gell, Boyleston. Anthony Goodwin Esq. Wirksworth. Mr. Joshua Gregory Middleton. James Greatorex Bonsall. Wm. Gregory, J. Gregory, Wm. Green, Thomas Godbehere, Middleton. Joseph Gilbert Sen. Stanton. H VI LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. H Charles Hurt Sen. Esq. Wirksworth. Mr. Samuel Haslam, Bonsall.

Part II

The Articles of the High Peak Hundred, - - 9.' Art 1 Concerning the Duty of the Bar-master. 2 The liberty to the Highway. 3 Purchasing in any man's ground. 4 Room for laying Feaigh. 5 Wash Trough. 6 Digging near any Bing-place. 7 Measuring Ore. 8 Taking away Stowses. 9 Purchaser hindering from any Wash-trough? lo Liberty of Crosses and Holes; 1 1 Woodand Water. 12 What Land may be Digged in. 13 Suing for Debt. 14 Buying Ore unlawfully measured. 15 Keeping a counterfeit Dish. 16 two great Bar-moot Courts. 17 Finding any New Ri:ke. 18 Isa Miner be slain on the Mine. 19 No ground to be measured till Ore got. 20 Not appearing at Court, merc'd. 21 No Buyer to touch the Dish. 22 Claiming Ground. £3 Keeping possession. c CONTENTS. XII Art. 24 Going to any Gentleman 25 Keeping a false Gauge. 26 Trying for Title. 27 Stealing Ore from Grooves. 28 Filling Grooves or Gates. 29 Breaking Articles.

SO Caving in any man's ground. 31 The Lord to have the first choice. 32 Uulawful Weapons. 33 Selling Grooves. 34 Taking half a Meare. 35 What a Meare is. 36 Nicking Possessions. 37 No Bailiff to Arrest a Miner. 38 Stealing Stowses or Timber. 39 Paying of Wages. 40 The three months Article. 41 Probing for a Mine. 42 Denying the 24, trom viewing and going down. 43 How many Trials shall determine. 44 Setting of Fires. 45 Stowses pinned with Wood and not with Iron. 46 Setting bad possessions. 47 Any Miner assisting another to Rebel. 48 Filling any Groove, a Penalty. [berty. 49 No Bar-master to take pawns but in his own Li- 50 Setting on fresh ground. 51 Laying out ground in presence. 52 Taking and beginning at a Meare Stake. 53 A New additional Article, respecting the seeking relief in cases of Trespass.

Part III

The Articles and Customs of the Wapentake of Wirksworth. Pase 26. Art. 1 The constitution of the Bar-master and what a Meare of ground contains. 2 That every man must free the old as well as the new; CONTENTS. Art new; and that the 13th Dish is the Farmers Lot That no person shall set on an Old Mine in possession, without the Bar-master, and one or more of the Grad Jury. 3 1 hat Grooves are no Entail'd Estate. Of possessions taken away by Theft. The time of laying forth the Miners ground. That Crosses and Lloles serve but for three days; and that Stowses and Timber gives the right. That the Miner shall Chase on his Meare. The Bar-master ought to give warning, or nick the Stowses before he give the ground away. When two or more set Stowses, for one Meare in a Rake. 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 11 That the Farmer shall provide impartial dishes.

That Smytham and Forested Ore pay no Duties That the Miner shall have liberty, and Tim ber from the Wastes. The Miners to have Roads to their Grooves. Of Vats and Sieves. 12 13 14 15 16 What ground may be digged in. That none shall keep false Dishes. [sure. The Bar-master's neglect in not coming to mea- The Penalty of shaking the Dish, and that measure shall be made. 17 18 19 What Cope is, and for what paid: That if any claim, he ought to arrest, &c. That a Court is to be held within ten days up on request. 20 21 22 23 That Pawns shall be put in, or no Plea. That the Defendants shall have six days before any Court, to prepare. That two great Courts be kept. That Ore got after the Arrest, is liable to the Trial. [Jurors. What men, and from whence, shall serve for That Maintainers as well as Miners shall serve.

That one Verdict for Wages, &c. shall suffice but in right of Title two. 24 25 26 27 28 •29 c %. The CONTENTS. Art, The time of Arresting after Trial. That none shall sue for Mineral right, but ist> Barmoot Court. 30 31 That no Bailiff or other officer, shall serve Writs or Warrants, on the Mine. 32 33 The mode of proceeding, when any refuse to Maintain. Of Mines lying "under water, soughs engines fye He that finds a Vein ought to direct the next taker. When any one possess the front of another man's Mine. That the first Workman shall work, and the claimer arrest. 34 35 36 37 38 The liberty he hath, who finds the Pee. How and when, two Veins are to be deemed 39 seperate Veins. [side.) The time of Firing in the Mine, (now laid a- Of Trespassing in another man's ground. The Penalty of filling up other men's Grooves.

That none shall pass away Parts, in variance for maintainance. Who shall enquire of Homicide in the Mines. Of weapons and drawing blood, upon the Mine.. Liberty of Washing trough. Of Caving upon the Mine. Of Felony. That Stocks* ought to be kept on the Mine. Of not appearing at the Barmoot Court. Respecting the 24, when called toview Mines in question. [offices. That none shall hinder the 24, from doing their That the Batf-master ought to collect, all Fines and Forfeitures. Claim to be made, within six months after workmanship. Of putting in Pawn, fye. Of Suing for wages. Of putting in a Bill of complaint. 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 61 52 53 54 55 56 67 •5& CONTENTS. XV Art. 58 That none shall hinder the 24 from Dialing. 59 That all persons put up their Bills while the Court sits. 60 Of making claim and arrest after being disposs'd 61 Of making Arrests, and putting in their pawns and not going on to Trial. 62 Of the Ore lying above ground, mineral Toolsand Cove, when a Mine is given away. 63 Of the recovery of Wages,— what time is given for the putting in of Pawns, after the Arrest is made, and the method of preferring a Bill to the Steward, in the Barmoot Court. 54 Of putting an A rrest into the Bar-masters hands and preparing for Trial.

Page. A Verdict or Opinion of the 24, in answer to a Bill preferred, by Mr John Thornhill - 69 Form of a Bill of Complaint ------ 72 — Cross Bill to the same - - - - 73 ■— Bill of complaint, when more than one are Complainants, or Defendants - ibid — Cross Bill to the same - - - - 74 — Grand Jury's Verdict, upon a single Complainants Bill, at the great Barmoot Court. 75 — Grand Jury's Verdict upon a Bill of complaint brought by sundry persons 76 •" ; — Bill to the Twenty four, when called to view Mines in question - - - 77 — Of Verdict of a major part of the twenty four, upon the said Bill - - - 78 -' — An arrest for Debt, with observations thereon ---------79 — An arrest in action of Title. - - - 80 — Verdict thereon ------81 — "an arrest for a Trespass - - - - 82? Method of the Grand Jury's proceeding, upon be ing called to enquire into the right of possession according to the Tenth Article ----- 83; Tile-.

CONTENTS. Page. The form of a Bill of complaint, put up at the great Barmoot Court -------- 84 The form of a Cross Bill at the same Court - 85 The form of a Bill at the small Barmoot Court, for Trial of Title. --------- 86 Further remarks upon the 1st Article - - - 87 The manner in which the Bar-master is to Act as Coroner, in case of Homicide, according to the 44th Article ---------88 Dialing -- __91 An account of the first invention of the Compass 95 Plumbing and Dialing ------- 101 Form of the Dialing Paper ______ 107 Leveling ---------.,-_ no Form of the I eveling Paper ----- H2 Tables shewing the equality betwixt weight and measure --------- ibid A Table specifying the irregular parts reduced into regular ones --______ j\q Explanation of the above Table - - - - 135 A Table of two parts added together into one single part ---------- ibid Explanation of the above Table - - - - 138 A Table ofsuch parts that when added together will become a regular and single part - - 139 Explanation of the above Table - - - - 140 A Table of three parts added together into one single part ---------- ibid Explanation of the above Table - - - _ 143 A Table of sour parts added together into one single part be they regular or irregular - ibid Explanation of the above Table - - - - 145 A Table of four regular parts added together into one single part --_____ ibid A Table shewing through all the common parts of a Mine from 1 half to a hundred and ninety second; what apart of parts are - - - _ 145 Explanation of" the foregoing Table - - - 149 A question proposed and answered by the helo of the said Table -------- ibid A TRUE COPY.

FROM the Bundle of the Exchequer and the Inqui sition of the Year of the Reign of King Edw. 1st. — 16. (?ZJ* The Stars represent the parts which are not legible in the Ancient Record. EDWARD by the Grace of God King of En gland Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain ; To the Sherif of Derby Greeting. Know you that we have assigned our Trusty and beloved Reginald de Leye and William de Meynell to enquire by the Oath of good fy Lawful men of your County by whom the truth of the matter may be better known, concerning the Liberties which our Miners of the Peak claim to have in those parts and which they have hitherto used and how and in what manner and from what time fy by what war rant And therefore We command you that at a certain day and place which the said Reginald and William shall make known to you, you cause to come before them as many and such good and Lawful men of your Bailiwick bv whom the truth of the premi ses may he better know and Enquired And have there this writ; witness Edmund Earl of Cornwall our Couzin at Westminster the 28th day of April in the 16th year of our Reign.

E'ndorsed at the instance of Hugh de Cresinghams Saturday The INQUISITION; Saturdy next after the feast of the Holy Trinity is assigned at Ashburn.

An Inquisition made at Ashburn on Saturday next after the feast of the Trinity in the Sixteenth year of the Reign of King Edward before Reginald de Leye and William de Meggnill concerning the Liberties which the miners of the Lord the King of the Peak claim to have in those parts and which they have hitherto used * * * and from what time and by what Warrants by the Oath of William de Langesdon Thomas Fologaumbe, William Halley Ralph Coterell, William * * * le parlur Clement de la ford, William de Bradlow Peter de Roland Richard de Langesdon, William son of * * * of Bardewell Llenry Fologaumher and John de Langesdon who say that when the Miners first come into a field seeking a Mine * * * they shall come to the Bailiff who is, called Berghmaster and require of him the allot ments, if it be in a new field, and they shall have * * * and the other in right of the miners and each allotment contains four roods and at its shaft seven feet wide* * * of twenty lour feet and the King shall have the third next allotment and the remaining allotments shall be delivered by the Berghmaster to the Workmen * * * in an old field to every workman requesting and working an allotment and from a profitable Mine so at work * * * shall have for his Seignory the * * * thirteenth Dish which is called the Lot, These they have hitherto used, and tor these our Lord the King* * * free ingress and egress to take and Carry their Oar as far as the 1 lighway, How and in what manner * * * profitable Mine they say that the Lord the King shall have the purchase of the Ore before all others on giving as much as it might be sold fur * * * that if a Miner shall have received money from any one in hand for a sale contracted to be made it shall be lawful for the Miner * * * without hindrance of the Berghmaster to the intent that his contract may be kept v/ithout fraud, the Contract being completed the King The INQUISITION.

XIX King shall have the Purchase * * * as is aforesaid They say also that it is lawful for a Miner to give sell or assign his shaft to whomsoever he will entire ly * * * without the licence of the master of the Berghmote from time whereof memory runneth not and they say that they have used the Liberties a foresaid during the time * * * untill now, except in a certain place which is called Mandate in which all purchasers have been hindered from the purchase »f Oar for four years last past * * * by the Bergh masters by the authority and by that Warrant the Miners have used the Liberties aforesaid they say by the ancient Custom of mineing They say also that the pleas of the Berghmote ought to be holden from three weeks to three weeks upon the mine Also they say that it is Lawful for the Miner moreover they say that if any Miner shall come to any accident death upon the mine he shall be buried with out view of the Coroner of the County by view of the miners and if any one shall be convicted of Sim ple trespass he shall therefore give for an amercia ment eight pence and pay it the same day, other wise he shall double it trom day to day until it shall come to five Shillings and four pence And if any one shall shed blood upon the mine he shall pay five Shillings and four pence the same day otherwise by doubleing it daily until it shall come to one hundred shillings and if any one shall be convicted of Tres pass committed under ground he shall give for an amerciment five Shillings and four pence and shall render to his fellow the damages which he shall have sustained.

PART THE jUtiners. (Bufat. PART, I. Containing asuccinct account of a Vein in the Earth, jind by what names they are distinguished, with a fort account of their progress. I^L VEIN in the Earth, is a Streak, or Substance of the Nature and Quality of some kind of Earths or Stones, that either contain some sort of Metalline Body, as Lead-Ore, Copper-Ore* Silver-Ore, £$c. or is a Substance of some kind of Earths that have an affinity or resemblance thereto; B and and all subterraneous Bodies, that are of a Metalline nature, are commonly subject to lie amongst or near some of the following Stones or Earths, as Spar, Caulk, red, brown and black or yellow Soil, and some times in Clay, and is easily distinguished from the rest of those Bodies, by its ponderousness, clearness aud-perspicuity : And atijtherJiiB.es it will beplac'd or impregnated in the Rock in Form or Shape of what we Miners call a Rib of Ore; and appears then ■. in one solid Mass or Body.' And altho' at that time to the naked Eve it seems entirely malleable, it is not sain Fact, for there is no body that I ever yet saw, is entirely clear from some Mixture of hetero geneous particles along with it; for all Ores that are sound in the Earth have mix'd or intermix'd a mongst them and about them, some kind of hetero geneous particles, that contain no Metal in them *and such mixture in the Ores can neither be sepa rated by the common Miners,, nor distinguished by the most curious Eye or finest Microscope, that the greatest Optician hath ever yet invented, till it is "put in Fashion by the Refiners.

The method of discovering Veins are various, sometimes one way and sometimes another, accord- C • T ing as it happens; but the practical Miners have most commonly an indicate knowledge or notion where a sVein is likely to be found, by the nature and quality Of of the Ground and Stone that it chiefly consisteth in; which generally induceth them to turn up the Earth and make Search and Trial. All Veins that are plac ed in the Bowels of the Earth, let them be either Pipe or Rake, have some branch or other that pro ceeds from the Master-Vein, nearly to the Surface or Day ; which gives the practical Miner an oppor tunity of discovering it, by making a round Hole in the Earth, (which is call'd blobbing) till they come to the Stone, and sometimes there he meets with a Vein set in the Rock, and so pursues it till he finds good Ore; and many a time the Vein will rise a mongst the Soil, nearly to the Superficies of Earth, which is called the Sprout of the Vein, and will run from place to place for several Yards in Length sometimes before it will set and sink down into the Earth.

And in some Countries the Miners will make Trenches, where they think it is Mineral Ground,. for a great many Yards in length and a yard or two wide, and lay it all open to the Rock, and by that means many a time make great Discoveries and open to sight many a good Vein. And altho' these are Methods the practical Mi ners mostly make Use of to discoveries or find Veins, yet they are many a time found by mere accident, as by a Plow running over it, or a Horse treading B 2 upon upon loose Earth and laying the Vein bare to sight; or a Mole casting up some pieces in the Mould,' which commonly proceed from a Vein. The likeliest and most proper places for finding Veins in these Countries, are chiefly on Hills that consist in Lime-stone ; but the most spacious and strongest Veins are often found in flat Ground and Hollows, but then they.are mostly attended with a prodigious Strength of Water.

NAMES of VEINS. VEINS are commonly distinguished by the three following Names, a Pipe-work, a Rake-work, and a Flat-work. The Nature of a PIPE- WORK is as follows.

It is known to be a Pipe by being cover'd or lidd ed and bottom'd with Rock both Roof and Sole, and runs of Holes and Ranges bounded by such Rocks, in different Shapes and Forms, and the whole body of the Pipe generally consisteth in the several Ran ges that attend and run parallel one with another; and altho' some of these Ranges, will now and then run upon the dip, or take a Rise, yet they all will mostly go to one Level at the last, and these Ranges have commonly some Symptom or Leading from one - 5v ftne to another, which causeth the whole body of the Pipe to have a general Communication towards them all ; but you must observe that sometimes that Leading that passeth through across the Ranges, is but small and scarcely discernable ; and therefore you must have great care taken to find such Lead* ings; yet there will be in one place or other some Sign or Leading through those Rocks, (or as the Mi ners term them Skirts) that have a Communication one with another, but perhaps sometimes very hard to find; yet thepractical Miner will venture to drive across through the Skirt, in order to try for new Ranges where there is no Leading to be seen, and perchance may discover a new Range ;but when he hath discovered all the Ranges he can, and thinks he is at the remotest Place of the Pipe, and finds himself entirely bounded with Rock; then is the Vein or Pipe said to be limited, and its Width dis covers, and in pursuing these Pipe-works it will sometimes occur in the Pursuit of it, when it is quite 'bounded round by Rock, to appear in a very small compass, so that you will almost think it will entirely terminate and twitch out, and many times is left at such places, and stands unwrought for se veral Years together, and afterwards is set on again by a new Partnership, and driven quite through •such binds and twinches, till the Vein opens again and and great Ore discover'd ; (and indeed all Veins are subject to such like cases as Twinces) except some great Water-works of Lead Ore ; where the pipe is. very spacious, there they seldom or rarely ever come to a very narrow compass, but are subject by the Spaciousness of the Vein, to carry prodigious Quantities of Ore for several Meares of Ground in length, and several Yards high from the false Roof or Lids to the Sole, mostly fill'd with Ore and Vein Substance.

The method of finding such Veins, I have before recited to you in shewing the Nature of a Vein ; and likewise informed you according to my Sentiments, that there was no Vein in the Earth, but what had some Branch or Leading that proceeded from the Master-pipe, to nearly the Surface or Day; which give the Practical Miner an opportunity to find it. I am likewise still further opinionated, that the Vein of a Pipe or Rake never terminates or extinguishes, but hath, when quite abandons, some Symtom or Leading left at the last. — For after thirty Years Series of Observation, I could never find in any Work of this kind that I ever yet work'd in, that the Pipe or Rake ever ter minated, but had at the last some Symtom of a Vein left still : I suppose for an Indication to induce our Posterity in the succeeding Ages; to make new Discoveries; which te be sure, is so ordered by the omnipotent $ omnipotent and.divine Power of our Great Creator.

Note. A Pipe-Work hath' comntonly two Levels. which are called the Upper and Nether Levels-, aad sometimes more. What a RAKE V/ORK is. A Rake-Work, is known by being bounded be fwixt two solid Sides of Rock or Stone, and runs in ■a direct Line from its Foundation, for several Meares of Ground-in Length, nay, even sometimes Miles, and sinks or penetrates a great many Fathoms into the Earth; and still keeps bounded by those two Sides both in sinking and driving, and seldom varies from the first Range it was discovered in ; except it sometimes leads to a Pepe-Work, and then it is called both Rake and Pipe, but still may be proved one and the same Vein ; if the Rake leads into the Pipe i without any separation: (only it is subject, as all o ther Veins are) to run upon the Slant, or what we Miners call the hading of the Vein or Rake, and chiefly consisteth in such like Vein Substance, as most other Veins do, as Spar, Caulk, brown, red, or yellow Soil, that lies at or near the Ore.

Note. The Vein of a Rake sometimes will be con fined by the Rock or Sides, into a very small string of Ore, or some leading or Symtom of the Rake either quick or dead; from whYh is discovered by Workmanship the body of the Rake again, and great Ore is found. Os a FLAT- WORK. 1 A Flat-Work Is not confined betwixt any two Sides', or bounded to any particular By-sklrt Compass but spreads itself every Way, and .keeps one Level : and is not snbjectto lie very deep in the Earth, though in one respect it imitates a Pipe ; by being confin'd .with a Roof and Sole, and betwixt that Roof and Sole it is fill'd with some kind of Vein Substance,. that most commonly contains some Ore. PART, II. Containing the ARTICLES and CUSTOMS of the High Peak Hundred, in the King's Field, in Derby shire. ARTICLE, I. W W E will, that the Bar-master, by the consent of the Jury, shall make to all Miners, an able Dish, from this time forth, between Buyer and Seller of Lead Ore; and against the good times, as Chris mas, Easter, and Whitsunday, two able Dishes, if need require, if they be called lor; upon Pain of every Default, three Shillings and six pence.

ARTICLE II. WE say, the Bar-master shall lay forth the Mi ners, the next Way to the Highway to the Water, if they be stopped, upon Pain to forfeit for every default One Shilling. ARTICLE III. WTE say, that no Person nor Persons shall purchase any Ore in any man's grotnd but his own, except the Owners be upon the ground, upon Pain G to to forfeit the Ore, to the Owner of the ground; and to forfeit to the "King, as often as. they shall be taken, — one Shilling. ARTICLE IV WE say. that every Miner shall have sufficient Room for laying their Feaigh, according to the Old Custom of the Mine. ARTICLE V. WE say, that whereas every man has a Trough of his own, by the Custom of the Mine, he ought to have the space of seven feet about his Trough; and of any Person or Persons shall Dig, or Delve, or Shovle near unto the Trough, within the said seven feet, he shall forfeit and pay Four-pence.

ARTICLE VI. WE say, that no person or persons shall dig, delve, or shovle, at.or upon any man's Bing-place, upon Pain to forfeit for every time One Shilling. ARTICLE VII. WE say, if any Miner hath Ore to be measured, if the Bar-master have knowledge of the same, upon reasonable warning to him given, then every such Miner may take two of his neighbours, and deliver his Ore to whom he will, so that "the Duties be dis charged, according to the custom of the Miner AR- ARTICLE VIII. , WE say, if any person or persons at any time take away Stowses, Timber, Mineral Tools, or Materials, or any other things concerning the Mine, from any man's Ground or Cove, they shall forfeit for every time, Five Shillings, except the Owner give them leave; whereof One Shilling and eight-pence to the King, and Three Saillings and four-pence to the pat ty agriev'd. ARTICLE IX.

WE say, there shall no Purchaser let or stop any Miner from any Wash-trough, at any time, upon Pain for every default, One Shilling. ARTICLE X. WE say, that the Custom of the Mine is such, that in no Ground, Crosses, and Holes, that be not Stowsedand Booked lawfully from henceforth, with in three days, shall not stand lawful in any Old Work; and in a New, Crosses and Holes shall stand and prevail no longer time, than a man may go home to make Stowses ready to Stowse his Ground withal, and the longest time is but three days. ARTICLE XL WE say, all Miners within the King's Field, ought to have the next Wood and Water of the King's Land, to Timber their Ground under and above the earth, aud therefore the Miners pay^Lor to the King. C2 AR- MINERS GUIDE; ARTICLE XII. WE say, by the Custom of the Mine, it is lawful for all the King's Liege people, to dis, delve, search and subvert, and turn all manner of Grounds, Lands, Meadows, Closes, Pastures, Moors and Marshes for Ore Mines, of whose inheritance soever they be; but if any Arable Lands, or Meadows be digged up, and not wrought according to the Custom of the Mine, the Owner of the same may fill it up again at his will and pleasure.