in a day, but are succeeded by spels: the residue of the time, they
weare out at Coytes, Kayles, or like idle exercises. Their Kalender
also alloweth them more Holy-dayes, then are warranted by the Church,
our lawes, or their owne profit.

Their ordinarie tooles, are a Pick-axe of yron, about sixteene inches
long, sharpned at the one end to pecke, and flat-headed at the other,
to driue certaine little yron Wedges, wherewith they cleaue the Rockes.
They haue also a broad Shouell, the vtter part of yron, the middle
of Timber, into which the staffe is slopewise fastned.

Their maner of working in the Loadmines, is to follow the Load as it
lieth, either sidelong, or downe-right: both waies the deeper they
sincke, the greater they find the Load. When they light vpon a smal
veine, or chance to leefe the Load which they wrought, by means of
certaine firings that may hap to crosse it, they begin at another place
neere-hand, and so draw by gesse to the maine Load againe. If the Load
lie right downe, they follow it sometimes to the depth of fortie or
fiftie fathome. These Loadworkes, Diod.Sic.l.5.cap.8. seemeth to point
at, where hee saith, that the Inhabitants of Veleriumm Promontorie,
digge vp Tin out of rockie ground. From some of their bottomes you
shal at noone dayes discrie the Starres: the workmen are let down and
taken vp in a Stirrup, by two men who wind the rope.

If the Load lie slope-wise, the Tynners digge a conuenient depth, and
then passe forward vnder ground, so farre as the ayre will yeeld them
breathing, which, as it beginneth to faile, they sinke a Shaft downe
thither from the top, to admit a renewing vent, which notwithstanding,
their worke is most by Candle-light. In these passages, they meete
sometimes with verie loose earth, sometimes with exceeding hard Rockes,