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Rh children, nor any one in trust for them, directly or indirectly, be made owners in any tin works in strife or variance; and all rights in tin works so disposed shall be deemed void gifts to them, and shall enure to the churchwardens for the time being of the parish where the work lieth, towards the relief of the poor of the said parish; and any tinner that shall give, sell, pawn, or promise directly or indirectly by any means any part of any tin work in variance, or the whole to any great man in the country, or person of power amongst the tinners, or to any other for their use for defending of them, or in trust for them, whereby the right may be overborne by their countenance, shall for such offence forfeit five pounds, and the gift and sale shall be void.

21. We find that whosoever hath been in quiet possession of a tin work, and continuance of working by the space of a year and a day by himself, or his farmers, or tinners, right recovered shall not be removed from his possession, or disposseddispossessed [sic] of his right by any command, order, or writ before judgment against him for the right of the work, and where neither party hath been working a year and a day, but that their right stand only upon old renew, or new pitch without continued work or bounds, that in this case the workers that first discovered the lode, shall not be molested, but continue their working until verdict shall be given against them; but in this case the farm in the interim shall be sequestred in mean hands, and to be answerable to them that shall recover the right by legal trial. 22. We