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Rh and laws herein-after mentioned be declared, ordained, and enacted as fol- low:

Whereas there have been, in former con- vocations held for the stannaries of Cornwall, many laws and constitutions made and en- acted for the better government of the said, stannaries; and whereas the original records of some of the said laws and constitutions have been by various accidents lost or de- stroyed, whereby great inconveniences may in process of time arise to his Majesty, or Lord Duke of Cornwall's revenue, and the said stannaries.

And whereas, particularly in a convocation held for thse said stannaries at Lostwythiel in the twenty-second year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord King James the First, before William Coryton, Esq. Vice-Warden, by the direction of the Right Hon. William Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamber- lain of His Majesty's Household, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall; which convocation consisted of of the following stanntors, (to wit)

For the stannary of Foymore:


 * Ema. Langford, Esq.
 * John Beere, Esq.
 * Geo. Collins, Gent.
 * Ed. Kneebone, Gent.
 * Rob. Congdon, Gent.
 * Richard Lobb;, Gent.

For the stannary of Blackmore:


 * Thomas Hearle, Esq.
 * Nich. Sawle, Esq.
 * Thomas Hoblyn, Esq.
 * Nich. Kendall, Esq,
 * Th.Hoblyn,jun. Esq.
 * Will. Hambly, Gent.

For