The miner's guide [electronic resource] : or, compleat miner. Containing, I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth, and by what Names Veins are distinguished, with a short Account of their Progress. II. The Customs, Laws and Articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private Liberties; the last Edition compared with the true Original Copies, and several Errors corrected. And all their Bills of Plaint, Customs, Cross-Bills, Arrests, Plaintiff's Cases, or Briefs; with all other Forms necessary for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines, within each Manour, Lordship, or Wapentake. III. An Account of the Load-Stone, with the first Invention of the Compass; to which is joined Houghton's Dialing and Levelling, illustrated with Variety of additional Examples. IV. Several curious and useful Tables, in most Branches in Mining, by Inspection; useful to both Masters, Overseers, and Others, concerned in the Mineral Way. V. A brief Account of the Assaying the two Metals, Lead and Copper. The whole interspers'd with Variety of curious Observations. By William Hardy.