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 APPENDIX.

23. Henry Fill, c. 8. "For havens in the West Parts."

the complaint of the inhabitants of Plymouth, Dartmouth, and Teinmouth in Devon: Falmouth, and Fowey in Cornwall (amongst other things) that said ports and havens were in a manner utterly decayed and destroyed by means of certain tin works called stream works used by certain persons within the said counties; which persons more regarding their own private lucre than the common wealth and surety of this realm have by working of the said stream works, digging, searching and washing of the same near unto the fresh rivers, waters and low places, descending and coming out of the ands towards and in the said ports and havens to the sea conveyed by the force of the said fresh rivers a marvellous great quantity of sand, gravel, stone, robel, earth, slime and filth into the said ports and havens; It is enacted that no person or persons should labour or work or cause to be laboured or wrought in any manner of tin works called stream