Mr. Bushell's abridgment of the Lord Chancellor Bacon's philosophical theory in mineral prosecutions ...

To our Dread Soveraign Lord the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY.

May it please your Majesty,

VVEE doe most humbly and thankfully acknowledge, that your Majesties vouchsafing to this your Principality the trust of a branch of your Royal Mint, is an honour that neither our Ancestors nor our selves durst wish for; and we do as hum∣bly and as thankfully acknowledge and confesse, that by it you have not only honoured us more, than any of your Royal prede∣cessors; but have thereby offered us the means to enrich our selves, to the making of us happier than our fathers, in freeing us from the cares and fears that hindred us from diving into these Mountains that promise a masse of treasure. For be pleased to know, that before your Majesty vouchsafed unto us this great favour, we were fearful to adventure far into the mountains, be∣cause we had far to send before we could make the silver current, that we should at charge recover. Nor was our care of carriage and recarriage the least hinderance to our proceedings, from all which, by your Majesties goodnesse, and the endeavours of your industrious and faithful servant Thomas Bushel, we are happily

freed; for which favour, we whose names are hereunto subscri∣bed in the behalfe of all the inhabitants of this your Principality of WALES, doe render all humble and hearty thanks, and for them, and our selves, doe hereby promise to Your sacred Ma∣jesty, that we will doe our utmost endeavours, to finde out that measure, which wee be leeve God and Nature from the Creation hath preserved for your Majestyes use; that thereby we may ap∣prove our selves your Majesties loyal and most obedient Subjects, and humble Servants.

• Thomas Milward Knight,
• Chiefe Iustice of Chester.
• Marmaduke LLoyd Knight.
• Richard Price K. Baronet.
• Iames Price Knight.
• Sampson Eure Knight.
• Iohn Lewis Knight.
• Timothy Turner Esq;
• L. Littleton Esq;
• Walter LLoyd Esq;
• Thomas Price Esq;
• Robert Corbet Esq;
• Evan Gwin Esq;
• Morgan Herbert Esq;
• Iohn Vaughan Esq;
• Vincent Corbet Esq;
• Humfrey Greene Esq;
• Iohn LLoyd Esq;
• David LLoyd ap Reigh∣nald Esq;
• Thomas Phillips Esq;
• Iohn Edmund Esq;
• Hugh LLoyd Gentlem.
• David Rees Gent.
• Iohn Bowen Gent.
• William Watkin Gent.
• Iohn Meredith Gent.
• Iames Kegitt Gent.