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28 the Lord-Prince, and the other half to himthat will sue for it, if it be presented at the law-court; and that the customary courts after fairs be always kept at the place where the fair is held, according to the custom, or else at the next market-town to the same place within the stannary, and no farther off,upon pain of ten shillings.

26. We find and ordain, that all stewards of the stannaries ought to attend at their courts in their own persons, or by their sufficient deputy being no attorney towards the court, and that no steward, or under-steward of any of the four stannary-courts, his son, or his clerk, be of council, or attorney, or solicit in any cause either for plaintiff or fendant, in the court whereof he shall be; nor that any steward, his son, or &c. to plead, servant, or any attorney in that court, do contract for any cause of action, or prosecute the same in the vender's, or giver's name, (according to the thirtieth of Queen Elizabeth, the twenty-fifth article) upon pain that every one respectively offending herein shall forfeit five pounds.

27. We find that, whereas in the thirtieth of Elizabeth, article the thirty-ninth, it is in the schedule there complaned that the fees of the stannary-court did daily increase, of which they desired reformation, and that the steward should set down the fees in certain, which hath not yet been done, and that the fees now since that time are much increased. We do therefore ordain, that all judges, stewards, keepers of the goal, attorneys, bailiffs, and