10. Thomas Loner, belonging to copper mines, to the Lord Treasurer; that by his authority he would rectify disorders committed by his partners; that the ingot of silver he sends him came to him from Keswick, but was got in the mines of Cawldebeck, Sept. 18, 1572.
11. The suit of the copartners of the copper mines in Cumberland, to the Queen; to take all their copper for two years at a certain rate; witli the prices paid by Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI. 1572.
12. A letter from Frederick Schwartz, and George Chetzer, Agents for a Society in Germany that work the copper mines in England, to the Lords of the Treasury, representing that Loner and Hochstetter, employed by them, had deceived all parties, 1572. (Latin.)
13. Some dealers in brimstone, to the Lords of the Treasury; that, as they are contracting with the copper mines to extract brimstone from their copper, and as they are to settle the terms of their agreement, they beg they will be favourable to them, 1572.
15. A brief, of the privileges granted to Sir Tho. Smith, the Lords Leicester and Burghley, and Sir Humph. Gilbert, as a body corporate, to be called the Society of the New Art for making Copper and Quicksilver, by way of Transmutation, Dec. 4, 1572.