, his son
Edmund, Maynard Colchester the younger, Esq., Roynon Jones the
younger, of Nass, Esq., Kedgwin Webley of London, Gentleman, Kedgwin
Hoskins the elder, of Clearwell, Gent., William Probyn the younger,
of Newland, Gent., Mr. Kedgwin Hoskins the younger, of Clearwell, Mr.
Edmund Probyn the younger, son of the said William Probyn, Mr. Thomas
James the younger, Mr. Thomas Baron the younger, son of Mr. Thomas
Baron of Coleford, Herbert Rudhall Westfaling, of Rudhall in
Herefordshire, Esq., John Clarke, of "The Hill," in Herefordshire,
Esq., Thomas Foley the elder, of "Stoke Eddy," in the said shire,
Esq., Thomas Foley the younger, of the same, Esq., John Symons, of
the Mine, in the same county, Esq., Ion Yate, of Arlingham, Esq.,
William Lane, of "King's Standley," and Barrow Lawrence, of Bruen's
Lodge, Gent.

So full a list of persons of position and influence as this Order
exhibits, lending their names to the Free Miners' Society, indicates the
existence of considerable importance in that body; and yet this was the
last Court having forty-eight free miners on the jury whose proceedings
have been preserved, the fact being that they failed to agree in their
verdicts, and then gentlemen refused to attend, owing, it is said, to the
violent quarrels and disputes which arose between foreigners possessed of
capital, who now began to be admitted to the works, and the free miners.
It is also reported that the decisions of the court were seldom observed,
no Act of Parliament having passed to render them valid. The former
protective distance between one mine and another was increased from 500
to 1000 yards of any levels, and enforced by a 5 pounds penalty. The
order concludes with directing that

"The water-wheel engine at the Orling Green, near Broadmoor, be taken
to be a level to all intents and purposes." This machine was
evidently the first of its kind erected in the Forest, as was also
the steam-engine which superseded it, each manifesting the
improvements going on in the method of working the mines. The
signatures appended to this final "Order" show twenty-five marksmen,
and twenty-three names written by their possessors.

The Benefaction-Boards of the Gloucester Infirmary record, in reference
to this period, the following particular:--"A gracious benefaction from
his Majesty King George II. of 9,200 feet of rough oak timber from the