The Stannaries, a Study of the English Tin Miner 3
The Stannaries, a Study of the English Tin Miner 3
George Randall Lewis
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"• /Wi., 246, 247. 78 THE STANNARIES den cessation of all such grants from the time of Edward IV to the great Elizabethan monopoly of the mines royal. ^ Mines of the second class, namely those of which the ownership was identified with that of the surface, need not detain us. Mines of coal in particular seem wholly to have belonged to the proprietor of the soil,* a fact true not only of England but of the continental coimtries as well. Nothing is more striking than the way in which the rulers o...f Germany, of France, and of Belgium* omitted to seize possession of dull and semi- valueless minerals such as coal, and occasionally iron, while on the other hand they never once failed to daim all mines of other metals, silver and gold first, and the rest no doubt in an order somewhat correspondmg to that of their values. In England a considerable niunber of mines occurred in royal forests * and were of course controlled by the Crown, as were also those upon royal demesne manors and other territories of a similar nature.^ On private estates, however, the general rule prevailed that the baser metals were the property of the proprietor.' Exception to this rule must be taken in the case of the third group into which, at the beginning of the discussion, we classified certain of the English mines.
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