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Rh 6. We likewise order, that no tinners shall sell their ashes to any plumber, or pewterer, upon pain of punishment at the Vice-War den's discretion,

7. We likewise present our ancient custom to be a standard of ten pieces, viz. two hundred pounds, one hundred pounds, fifty pounds thirty-two pounds, twenty-four pounds, sixteen pounds, eight pounds, six pounds, four pounds, two pounds, for our tin weights should remain in brass in the Exchequer at Lostwythiel; and when either the beams should grow dull, or the weights worn, then the same shall be fetched from thence to any of the other courts, and a certain company of the chief tinners of the one party, and of the buyers of white tin of the other party, should assemble and meet in the coinage-hall of every court, the day before the coinage, and then in their presence, both the beam shall be rectified and the weights assured, to give due weight between man and man. And this was done usually when there was complaint of wrong on either side, and ordinarily extecuted once in seven years.

8. We agree that the pin in the beam, and the scales in each several town within the stannaries of Cornwall, being grown blunt and imperfect by long continuance, and often usage, as also very much worn in the handling, that the same may be sharpened and rectified three days before November coinage next, in every stannary, according to the statute of the eleventh of Henry the Seventh in that case provided, in the presence of the