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dieu ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE ¶ By the King. ❧ A Proclamation concerning royal Mynes.  
THe Kings most Excellent majesty, having both by the iudgement and opinion of sundry persons of skill, and by diuers trials and good experiments, received advertisement of great probabilities, and assured hopes of finding within His realms of England and Ireland, and the Dominion of Wales, many rich Mynes of silver and other metals, having in them silver and Gold, which by his majesties laws and prerogative royal, do of right belong to his imperial crown; and having received diuers overtures and Propositions, for the discovering and working the same, hath been pleased( as in a matter of special importance for the enriching of his kingdoms) not onely to commend the same ot the serious consideration of His privy counsel, but maturely to consult and aduise thereon himself, and in the end, after many and deliberate debatements thereof, hath with the aduise of His privy counsel resolved vpon these ensuing Articles.  
First, that Leases for one and twenty yeeres shall be made under the great seal of England for any the said Mynes, unto such as will undertake the same, either in his majesties own lands and soil, or in the lands and soil of any others within either of the said realms or Dominion, except the county of Cardigan.  
Secondly, That for encouragement of the said Lessees, they shall hold the same two yeeres from the date of the said Leases free from any rent or payment to his majesty.  
Thirdly, in case the said Lessees shall discover any such mine within the limits and bounds contained in their Leases, and after opening thereof, the vein shall be found to run into any other grounds adjacent, and being without the limits and bounds contained in the said Leases, the Lessees shall be enabled to follow and work after the same vein into all other places( excepting Mynes opened by others in the same ground, into which the vein runneth, before the discovery made by such Lessees) always allowing unto such owners and possessors of the ground for the time being, into which the Ueine runneth, and is followed, double the value of the damage they shall sustain any way, the same to be valued by the two next Iustices of Peace; and in case that by colour hereof any wrong be maliciously done, then further recompense to be given to the party grieved vpon his complaint to the Kings majesty, or the Lords of the privy counsel, as the quality of the cause shal merit. And the said Leases shall ●enteine such other ample privileges, Clauses and covenants as shal be fit, and may best encourage the the said works.  
Fourthly, to the intent the said Mynes shal not lye unprofitable, as heretofore, his majesties pleasure is, That the said undertakers shall so prepare and begin their work with such convenient expedition, as that from the end of two yeeres after the date of their Leases, they shall allow and pay his majesty the proportion of silver and other Mettall hereafter mentioned, and shall effectually proceed therein with ●uch competent stock and number of workmen, as the situation, richness, and condition of the Mynes shall require, and shall yield to his majesty from the end of the said two yeeres, the tenth part of all the Gold, silver, Copper, and led extracted and refined, which shall proceed or come of the said Mynes. And for the more ease and expedition of such as shall sue for any such Leases, the Lord Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer within the realm of England, or either of them in the vacancy of the other. shall and may, without other svit to his majesty, appoint the limits and bounds to be contained in each mans Lease, and give order accordingly to his majesties attorney general. And his majesty in favour to the owners of the lands, within which the said Mynes are, is pleased, that they, or such as they shall nominate, be preferred to the said Leases before all others, so as they attend the said Lord Treasurer or Chancellor, and take the same within three Moneths after the publishing of this his royal Proclamation in the county where the said lands lye. And in case they do not attend and take the same within that space, then such persons shall be admitted to take Leases thereof, as shall first make svit for the same.  
given at the Court at Wansteede, the tenth day of july, in the two and twentieth year of Our reign of Great britain, France, and Ireland.  
God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent majesty. 1624.