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 2S4 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. tarn noblli et dilecto et fideli nostro Johanni de Eltham comiti Cornubise fratri nostro carissimo, domino stanni prtedicti, in perceptione cunagii sui de eodem stanno, et Philippse Reginse Anglian consorti mese carissimse in perceptione firman et custumaj suarum in dicta villa BristoU, quam stanna- toribus prffidictis et aliis de commuuitate regni nostri prejudiciale foret multipliciter et danipnosum si praefati operarii zonarum ab emptione stanni hujusmodi prsetextu literarum nostrarum prsedictarum se retraherent, et quod iidem stannatores a stannariis illis se vellent elongare, Nos hujus- modi dampno et prsejudicio iu hac parte prsecavere, et tarn pro nostro ac dictorum consortis et coniitis quam aliorum prasdictorum indempnitate volentes in prsemissis remedium apponere prout decet, vobis mandamus quod prajfatos homines de Bristoll et alios quoscunque hujusmodi stannum in dicta villa, Bristoll et alibi prout eis placuerit operari et vendere permittatis, prout hactenus facere consueverunt, dictis Uteris nostris prsefatis zonariis London ut prsemittitur factis ac statute et mandatis nostris quibuscunque in contrarium directis non obstantibus. In cujus, etc. T. R., apud Westm., quarto die Maii. Per ipsum Regem et Consihum.^ ' This formula has been sometimes sup- such authority would certainly be neces- posed to indicate that the writ issued by sary, if the previous letters patent of authority of parhament. The doctrme is 1 £dw. III. were valid in law. open to question ; but in the present case,