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Then we find (July 27) that a commission was given for Thomas 

 Thurland and Daniel Hechstetter to apprehend disorderly persons 

 employed by them in the mines. 



Mr. Daniel Hechstetter, touching his suit and petition for 

 privilege of water-works for draining mines, etc., offers to form a 

 company, and to give certain shares to the Earls of Pembroke and 

 Leicester, Sir William Cecill, Mr. Tamworth, and Alderman 

 Duckett. 



Thomas Thurland writes (August 29) to Sir Edward Rogers, 

 Comptroller of the Household ; Sir Fr : Knolleys, Vice-Chamber- 

 lain; and Sir William Cecill, to say that he has proposed a 

 composition with his creditors and the executors of one Warde. 



April 23, 1566. Daniel Hechstetter and Hans Louver write to 

 Alderman Duckett from Augsburg, respecting the progress of the 

 works for smelting copper and silver. They say it is joyful news to 

 hear that Mr. Secretary has shown himself so favourable ; they had 

 hoped that the Earl of Leicester would have been the same. They 

 complain of Mr. Humphrey, and are sorry that the Marquis of 

 Baden has quitted England in debt, and finish the letter with 

 German news. 



May 25. Thomas Thurland writes from Keswick that he 

 understands that there are certain ores of gold and silver to be 

 found in the mines there, a secret which the strangers keep to 

 themselves. He wishes for a skilful man out of Flanders. He 

 tells Sir William Cecill that if he will not answer his letters, he 

 will write no more, though he be the Queen's Chief Secretary for 

 England. 



June 8. This brings remembrances to Mr. Thurland, Master 

 of the Savoy, touching the mining operations at Keswick. 



June 25. Meantime, Hechstetter and Louver are at Augsburg, 

 and write to Cecill. They report the progress of the works at 

 Keswick, and speak of the necessity of discharging some of the 

 workmen there. They say that the ores tested in Germany have 

 produced good copper. They are coming to England, and enclose 

 an account of charges of mining operations at Keswick. 



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