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38 their court-book, and published by them at the courts, that they may be known, and in every point duly observed.

3. What lands may be bounded by common

3. We present and affirm, that by com- mon prescribed stannary right, any tinner may bound any wastrel lands within the county of Cornwall that is unbounded, or void of lawful bounds; and also any several and enclosed land that hath been anciently bounded and assured for wastrel, by deliver- ing of toll tin to the lord of the soil before that the hedges were made upon it; and also such and so much of the Prince's several and enclosed customary land within the ancient dutchy assessionable manors, as hath been anciently pounded with turfs, according to the ancient custom and usage within the said several dutchy manors, and not otherwise, the tinner paying out of such land so bounded the usual toll only as is generally paid within the stannaries,

a fifteenth dish to be paid as toll, unless special customs.

that is the fifteenth dish or part, saving in such places where a special custom hath limited another rate of toll.

4. Bounds got and kept new pitch and renew.

4. We present and affirm our general cus- tom of gaining and keeping right in bounds to be by new pitch and renew, in such man- ner as it now is, and anciently hath been in use in the several stannaries ; which said general custom we limit, ordain, and agree that it shall be thus understood, viz. That an owner working his tin-work by himself, his wages-man, or farmer, paying toll once a year and a day, or otherwise continuing his working without fraud in driving an adit unto or sinking a shaft upon the said work