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Rh from any suspicious person, that is not known, to be an adventurer for tin, or to be a maker of white tin, or owner of a blowing-house, or shall otherwise receive any tin stuff from any tinner than openly at the wash, or before one sufficient witness at the least, shall forfeit double the value of the tin so bought or received by him.

25. We moreover find and establish, that all stewards of the stannary-courts do keep all their general courts from three weeks to three weeks, according to the custom, and not some at a month's end, and some at a fortnight, for that is to the great prejudice of the stannaries, except such courts as are called customary courts, which are always kept the morrow after certain fairs within each stannary, which have been accustomed to be kept, (though they fall within a week after the ordinary courts) at the place where the fair is kept, for the benefit of such as do attend the fair and the court; and that the steward do, at the end of every court, appoint the day and place of the next court, and so proclaim the same at the adjournment of the court, upon pain of ten shillings, one half to the Lord-Prince, and the other half to him that will sue for the same, if it be presented at a law-court day by the jury there sworn; and that the head bailiff do proclaim every court in the market towns in full market within his stannary, eight days at least before the courtdays, and the law-court ten days at least, (according to the ordinances made the thirtieth of Queen Elizabeth, article the twentyfirst) upon pain of ten shillings, one half to the