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On 25 September 1588 Eustachius wrote from
Edinburgh to a colleague Geoffrey le Broman. He discussed their alchemical practices. He had also been making salt from sea water, and claimed to have a new method that would undercut the price of French salt. He had made a contract with James VI that would
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and Edzell. But Roche had a monopoly on mining in
Scotland, so Lindsay offered to form a partnership. He wanted the Privy Council to summon Roche and make him form a partnership or allow Lindsay to manage his own mines. Accordingly, Roche and Lindsay formed a partnership, and Roche was to pay his
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had a copper mine, wrote to the
Conservator of Privileges, Robert Dennistoun, about an old legal case concerning Roche, who confirmed "It imports no small dishonour and interest to his Majesty and the country so long to suffer an infamous person to have charge of the mines."
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and his partners. The works were at the shore of the Wester Links of Leith between Wardie Brow and St
Nicolas Chapel. In July 1590 he was asked to pay three years arrears of rent for the Newhaven holding. He gave up his lease on 12 May 1592.
45:. A note made in September 1584 about his work at Wanlockhead reports that Roche had worked lead and copper, and searched for copper on Langcleuch burn, but not the gold at the old mines. One of his men was called John Gibson.
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83:, impressed with his estimates to improve revenue, made an act that Roche's heirs would inherit his 10% share. The council also declared it would seek justice for the murder of his workman Nicholas Wanraust or Van Raust.
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Lindsay and advised on the "reduction", the legal challenge, to Roche's contract. While interested parties were submitting their views to the Privy Council, Marion Douglas, the wife of
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Eustachius Roche a contract with monopoly rights to mine for gold, silver, copper, and lead in Scotland. He was described as a "mediciner", a physician. There were other miners at this period including
60:, who had recently been English ambassador in Edinburgh, had begun to discuss a similar privilege for him in England. Sidney left Edinburgh sooner than planned because of the death of his uncle, the
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Roche had these privileges for his trade secret, "the form of his furnaces and making of his great salt, which he will he not be content be communicated to others". In April 1588 the
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Newhaven, as the Englishmen had before, meaning the works previously set to
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337:(Edinburgh, 1882), pp. 534, 538.
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