Catalogue description (3 & 4 Philip & Mary)   Licence to search for tin, for term of 2 years   John de Veer,...

(3 & 4 Philip & Mary)

Licence to search for tin, for term of 2 years

John de Veer, Earl of Oxford, Viscount Bulbek, Lord Badlysmere and Chamberlain of England = (1)

William Lanyon and David Angove = (2)-(3)

(1) to (2)-(3), licence to dig and search for tin ('for the loode and veyne of tynne') everywhere within (1)'s manors and lordships in Cornwall, for term of 2 years from the present; (2)-(3) shall have half of the freehold or works so found, and (1) the other share. If (2)-(3) find 'schode or scove' which is unable to make more than 12 dishes of tin, they may keep it without paying toll or farm; if they find 'schode or scove' able to make 13 dishes or more but unable to 'make wages', the earl shall have half as toll or farm. (1)-(2) covenant to 'fylle and scoppe up agayne' all pits and shafts that they shall dig.

Seal [part] and tag for another.

[Pencil, 19th-20th century?] "Gwinear" [why? Perhaps because of Lanyon in Gwinear, but that proves nothing. No specific place can be suggested for this document.]