Section II King shall have the Ore at a Rate.
Several Rates.
Provided always and be it enacted and declared That their Majesties X1ther Heirs and Successors and all claimeing any Royal Mines under them shall and may have the Ore of any such Mine or Mines in any part of the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed (other then Tin Ore in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall) paying to the Proprietors or Owners of the said Mine or Mines wherein such Ore is or shall be found within Thirty days after the said Ore is or shall bee raised and laid upon the Banks of the said Mine or Mines and before the same be removed from thence the rates following (that is to say) For all Ore washt made cleane and merchantable wherein is Copper the rate of Sixteen Pounds per Tun and for all Ore washt made cleane and merchantable wherein there is Tin the rate of Fourty Shillings per Tun and for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein there is Iron the rate of Fourty Shillings per Tun and for all Ore washt made cleane and merchantable wherein there is Lead the rate of Nine Pounds per Tun and in default of payment of such respective sums as aforesaid it shall and may be lawfull for the Owners and Proprietors of the said Mine or Mines wherein such Ore is are or shall be found to sell and dispose of the said Ore to his and theire own uses any Law Statute or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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interlined on the Roll.