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A SPEECH TOUCHING THE RECOVERING OF 

 DROWNED MINERAL WORKS. 



Prepared for the parliament (as Mr. Bushel affirmed) 

 by the Viscount of St. Albam, then Lord High 

 Chancellor of England*. 



MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, 



THE king, my royal master, was lately graciously 

 pleased to move some discourse to me concerning 

 Mr. Sutton s hospital, and such like worthy foun 

 dations of memorable piety : which humbly seconded 

 by myself, drew his majesty into a serious conside- 

 tion of the mineral treasures of his own territories, 

 and the practical discoveries of them by way of my 

 philosophical theory : which he then so well resented, 

 that afterwards, upon a mature digestion of my whole 

 design, he commanded me to let your lordships 

 understand, how great an inclination he hath to fur 

 ther so hopeful a work, for the honour of his domi 

 nions, as the most probable means to relieve all the 

 poor thereof, without any other stock or benevo 

 lence, than that which divine bounty should confer 

 on their own industries and honest labours, in reco 

 vering all such drowned mineral works, as have been, 

 or shall be therefore deserted. 



And, my lords, all that is now desired of his 

 majesty and your lordships, is no more than a gra 

 cious act of this present parliament to authorise 

 them herein, adding a mercy to a munificence, which 



* See Mr. B s extract, p. 18, 19. 



