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Copper, Tirij and divers forts of mincrak, 
branching out even to their fumTnifs,whcre 
in fmall Ctinnics you may meet with threds 
of perfcdTilver 5 yet haVe the Englijh nor 
maw to open any of them, whether out of 
ignorance or fear of bringing a forraig^i 
Enemy upon them, or (" like the dog in the 
manger ) to keep their Soveraign from par- 
taking of tj;ic benefits , who certainly may 
claim an intereft in them as his due^ being 
eminently a gift proceeding from 
divine bouity to him, no perfon 5^ 
can pretend intereft in Gold, Silver , or 
Copper by the law of Nations, but |te 
Soveraign Prince h but the fubjeds of our 
King have a right to mines difcovered in 
their own Lands and inheritances V So as 
that every tenth Tun of fuch Oar is to be 
paid to the proprieters of fuch lands , stnd 
not to the ftatc,if it be not a mine-Royal: 
if itpioveto be a mine-Royal, every fifth 
Tun of all fuch O ir as fliall hold Gold, or 
Silver worth rclining, is to be rendered tb 
the King, fhe learned Judges of our King-^ 
dom have long fmcc conclude dy that although ] 
the Gold or Silvef comeimd in the hafe meitals 
of a mine in the land (f j^ Suhj U,he of kfs 
value than the bafcr mettal '^ yet if the Gold 
or Silver do countervail the charge of refining 
ity or be more worth than xhe haje meital f^em 
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