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and therw'thall som of our stone and Copper, also how wee doe speede in our melting, of w'ch I thanke God it doth goe reasonablye well forward, and lak but only good store of rich

ewres.

I trust you have receyved my letter before this, therfor I stee at this p'sent. William Langfforde made hast away, because he could not see the melting, w'ch I mad stee of this very same day he did com hither, because I doe tary for som mor and richer ewres from your syd, and also because I have some thinge to mend at our water weere, and about our fornisses, but mean to begine again w'thin 8 or tene dayes, God willing.

At Mr. Weston's coming to your syd, your Worship shall understand mor, I hath writtne to yow after, but that I have ben a whil in the north parte of * England.

Thus I rest, and so commit yow and all yours into the hand of Almightie God. From Neethe this 9 of June, 1585, in hast.

Your Worship to comand to his poore

[Endorsed.]

ULRICKE FROSSE, M.Mr.†

To the Right Worshipfull Mr. Wm. Carnsewe, esquier, at his house, at Bokelly, in Cornwall.

rec' 19 Junii, a. 1585. Ulryke.

VIII.

ULRICKE FROSSE TO ROBERT DENHAM.
4 JULY, 1585.

To his lovinge frinde Robert Denha'.

Frinde Denha', I have me hartely co'mended unto yow; yow shall understande yt we did lacke ower more than 14 dayes ago, for we have founde out a waye to melte 24C of * Probably visiting Keswick and Cumberland.

↑ See note at foot of the previous page on this.

owre everye daye w'th one furnas, the Lorde be thanked, and if we may have owre anoughe from yo'r side we maye with God's helpe melte w'th tow furnases in 40 weekes 560 tonnes of owre, having reasonable p'vision made for it; desiringe yow from hence forwarde to sende such owres as yow have w'th as much speed as maye be, not caring what owre it is. Yo'r owre of St. dives is very harte to melte it, hopinge we will over com it,* what St. Ust owrs will do, we longe to se it.* This I rest, the Lorde send yow good succes about yo'r mines.

And so I co'mit yow to God. Fro' Nethe, the 4th of July, 1585.

Yo'r frinde,

ULRICKE FROSSE.

When yow do send any more owre, if yow can, sende of all sorts, the better it will melte & w'th more p'fit. [Endorsed.] The copys of U. to D. [Ulrick to Denham.]

IX.

JOHN OTES TO MR. WM. CARNSEWE.

27 OCT., 1585.

S'r, my dewtie remembred unto your Worshipp. pyckman you spake of came to St.

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October, and brought w'th hem 2 letters from yo'r Worshipp, th' one to Hance Hearing, th' other to myself. At the same tyme I had some [special] occatzon to be from St. Ives, but y'e Wensday I came to St. Ives agayne, and receaved the two letters of my host. So the Frydaye I went to St. Yeust, and carryed Hances l'ter with me, thinking yt the said Rodger Richard was thither to worke; soe we marvayled that he did not com, but brought the letters to St. Ives, and harde no more of hem att the present.

* Evidently those of St. Ives and St. Just, Cornwall.

The 14 of October came John Bwaple, one of Wales, w'h his bark for a frayght of the Copp' owre, and did delyver hem the 21 of October, 15 Tonn & 8 hundred of copp' owre for Wales. The 15 October came one Thom's Roberts from Wales, from the Company, w'h a fraight of tymber and necessaryes for the workes. I receaved his fraight at St. Ives, and for my lyffe I could not gett any * owre from St. Yeust to St. Ives, to fraight hem for Wales, but went awaye w'hout any, for Bwaple wold carry more owre yf I had it at St. Ives.

Mr. Denham must take y't order to have owre brought in the so'mer to St. Ives, for men will not deale nowe in the wynter tyme, unlesse it be very faire wether, whiche I pray God to send us and bless us, and to send us His grace, geving yo'r Worshipp thankes for yo'r good letter.

More to certyfye your W'rshipp for the western worke at St. Ives. There was 2 men of o'rs wroght one whole weeke, and wrought 2 feathem from the place. Mr. Denham did appoynt forth right in the load and found nothing, but at the place they began: more, the clyff is so lose that it falls, so y't the men wold not work but one week, soe it is gyven over tyll Mr. Denham's return.

And wheras Mr. Martyn and Mr. Denham did gyve me in charge to increase o'r workmen to the number of 30 in the whole, we should not have had monyes to certyfye them senight agon, but we have of workmen 20 some weeks at y'e most we have no more, but w'hin, and I am dryven to seeke for that I cannott gett or receave the monyes Mr. Denham did appoynte me. I paid £3 for the fraight of our tymber hither, as was wrytten in Arthur Rigbye's letter, and other charge we weare at about other busynes, I hoape as resonable as yf Mr. Denham were p'sent hemself, and by God's helpe what I maye doe I am willing, for y't Mr. Denham hath y't * "Wales" in this paragraph doubtless means Neath.

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confydence in me. And desyring the Almyghty to blesse me, and to send me His grace and goodness. I meane well, what I may to ev'y man, for as the scrypture sayth, better it is to have a poore lyving, w'h honesty and good creadytt, then all the world other wyse.

Thus far bold to trouble yo'r W'rshipp w'th my harty comendatyons to yo'r sonnes, I leave, committyng y'or W'rshipp to the tuityon of God, w'h increase of w'rshipp. From St. Ives, the 27 of October, 1585,

Your W'rshipps to his power more wylling then able,

JOHN OTES.

I sent this letter by John Stone, to send it to your Worship, and the 30 October being Satterday, I came to St. Ives, and fynding the letter not sent, I thought it convenyent to com my self, to certyfy your W'rshipp in what state we [were in]. Mr. Denham wild me to receave with the money I had of him, first of Mr. Napyan iijli. xvijs., vid. [and] of Harry Karwethers, iiijli. xvijs., the which I cannot receave it; more, I had a note to receve of Pascow Wynsor, xijli., y'e w'ch Mr. John Carnesew p'mysed to sent it before this.

Yf it maye be yo'r W'rship's pleasure to helpe us about a vjli. tyll Mr. Denham's return, it should do us great pleasure, for y't Mr. Denham p'mysed to be w'h us at this p'sent, and I thinke it wilbe a fortnight before his return. No more to yo'r W'rshipp.

[Indorsed.]

To the W'rshippfull Mr. Wyllyam Carnsewe, esquyer, at Bockelly, geve these w'h speed.

X.

JOHN OTES TO MR. CARNSEWE.

NOVEMBER, 1585.

I am sorry to trouble yo'r w'rshipp so oft, and do greatly

marvayll y't Mr. Denham do absent himself so long, desyring y'r w'rshipps' advyse:

I borrowed of Pascow Wynsor iijli. so y't the same & all the monyes y't was deliv'd me is gon aboute the mynerall worke, and we owe the workmen in p'te for the last weeke ending the 13 of November, besydes this weeke, so yf it were possyble to pay this same, which commeth to vjli. & upwarde, I would make the workmen stay one fornight longer, yet they do worke in such wetenes y't in paying there wage, it geves them a hart to worke. There is one hath p'mysed to lend me xls., so yf I cold gett iiijli. more it wol do well, for I ame sure Mr. Denham will not be from us, fornight more; I did think I should receave of Mr. John Carnsewe aboute vjli. as he p'mysed me, so he did what he might to gett som for me and cannot tyll it be a weeke or for'night hence, And then we shall surely have it, nowe yf yo'r w'rshipp might be a meane for a iiijli. at this p'sent for y't I wold begon west warde to morrowe betymes. For I did hoape I shold have some newes here of Mr. Denham.

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XI.

ULRICKE FROSSE TO MR. W. CARNSEWE.

7 MARCH, 1586.

I have rec'd your Worshipps' letter dated the 27th January, w'ch letter I did rec' the 6th of March her at Neath.

Understanding therein that yow have noe letters from me sinch I departed out of Cornwall, I have advertissed your worshipp long befor this time in twoo sondry letters of our dowings her.

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