The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-25 00:00:00

Modlin mine. He took sets for mines from Mr. .f.
Williams and Mr.. Carpenter, and paid them dues.
William Harris, aged 83, held a tenement in
Elston manor for twenty years. He attended an
assession•court to take it. He had been'a captain
of mines during the greater part of his life. A mine
was workeifin his tenement for tin and copper, but.
he never made any objection to it, and never heard
that any body had a right to make' an objection.
His tenement was in, an enclosed part of the duchy.
He Should have been glad if he could have made an
objection, but he thought he had no right to do so.
Another witness, 72 years of age, gave similar
testimony.
J. Hickman was acquainted with the manor of
Tewington. He had searched for copper in Saxe
Gotha, and found none. Mr. Charles Rashleigh,
on witness's application, agreed to give him a set.
Peter Goldsworthy was his toiler, and acompanied
him to mark the bounds of the set. Mr. Willis, who
was tenant of the land, never interrupted witness
Whilst he was in search, which continued for six
years.

- Mr. Geo. Geech was concerned in mining in the
manor of Tewington for some manganese. He took
the set from Mr. Rashleigh. The speculation not
proving successful, he gave it 'up in three months.
Mr. Tullock, to whom the land belonged, never ob-
jected to witness's operation's.- Witness did not
know that he was aware of them. They were in
enclosed land. The surface of the land was not
meddled with, but an adit was driven in a steep place.
Captain Thomas Garvie gave similar testimony.
Christopher Vickary Bridgeman prodneed several
sets for copper and other minerals, in different mines,
which he had obtained from the Duchy-ollice. They
were read to' the Court.
The answers to the interrogatories put to certain
tenants of the manor of Tewington in the 12th
year of Queen Elizabeth, and objected to on Friday
last, were then put in and read, for the purpose of
showing that they had only a freehold of inheritance
in their takings, according to the custom of the ma-
nor. Similar answers, taken at different periods
after the reign of Queen Elizabeth, down to the
year 1774, were then put in and read. In the
later documents, the tenants claimed a right to the
timber on their tenements, for which they paid a
fine in some of the early documents.
Michael Barbary—l am a miner. In the early
part of 1820 I worked at East Crinnis. I knew Mr.
Rowe of Le Mellon Cottage. I conversed with
him about sinking a shaft in Le Mellon Moor. He
wanted the shaft sinking, on East Crinnis level.
Vivian was his mining captain. I met Vivian with
Mr. Rowe in 1820. We contracted to sink a shaft
in Le Mellon Moor, andito hole to East Crinnis
level. Before that time we were driving a lode on
the level in East Crinnis. We had got into Le
Mellon-moor. In East Crinnis I earned 145., 155.,
16s. a-week. I was to have 44 11/s. :for a fathom

from Mr. Rowe. I thus got 308. a-week, Four of
us set to work upon it. We sank our shaft about
26 yards, and then we holed to the East Crinnis
level. About a fortnight after this, I saw persons
working under Vivian on the East rinnis lode. In
consequence of this, the East Crinnis adventurers
were ',bilged to work round it. I recollect an old
iron shaft sunk in the centre of Mr. Rowe's moor.
It formed part of the East Crinnis mine-works.

Cross-egamined—This iron shaft was in use in

1814. I then joined the East Crinnis adventurers.
They had then risen some copper ore, but had not
taken it away. I don't know that they had raised
tin. They suspended that mine for some years. I
saw about a ton of copper ore at the shaft's mouth
in 1814. -

Re-examined—They returned to the shaft in 1820.
John Phillips deposed to a conversation which he
had held with Mr. Rowe in 1814. Mr. Rowe said,
that the East Crinnis people had mined for copper
on his estate, and that he hoped it would turn out
favourably, as he could derive no profit from it, as
the estate was duchy land. •
Cross-examined—l told this story about a week
ago. The case for.the defendant then closed.
Mr. BROUGHAM then proceeded to call witnesses.
Edward Coode--Is steward to the present Lord
of the Manor of Tewingten; has held courts for the
Lord since 1801. Holds a Court Leet every year at
Michaelmas, and a Special Coult for surrenders
whenever they are applied for. The Court Leet is
attended by the customary tenants ; the Special
Court by himself, two customary tenants, the sur-
renderer and the taker. He kept the manor book
in which the entry of surrenders were made. The
surrender and the take were both by livery of the
Lord. The tenants take an oath of fealty to the
Lord. Witness being
,ordered to produce certain
surrenders,

Sir J. SCARLETT did not rise to object to this
evidence, but to protest against the admission of it
on this occasion being considered as a reason for its

►dmission on another.

The examination of the witness then proceeded.
He read several surrenders of tenements in Rowe's

Le Mellon made to the steward of Tewington manor,
and submitted to a long examination founded upon
them.—At six o'clock the Court adjourned.