The miners 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 Articles and Customs of the High Peak and Wapentake of Wirksworth, with Forms for Bills of Complaint, and Verdicts thereon; Cross-Bills, Forms of Arrest in Action of Debt, in Action of Title, in Case of Trespass, Form of Bills to the Twenty-Four when called to view Mines in Dispute, and Forms of Verdict thereon; and most other Forms necessary for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines within the Wapentake of Wirksworth, with some practical Observations on some of the Articles, never before published. III. An Account of the Loadstone, with the first Invention of the Compass; to which is joined, Houghton's Dialing and Levelling, illustrated with a few Examples The whole carefully revised and corrected, so that it may be depended on. To all which is added, as a second part, an appendix. In which is contained, The several useful and instructive easy Tables, and other Things, set forth in the Title-Page of the second Part. Also, An Alphabetical Explanation of all the Mineral Terms used in this Book. By William Hardy.