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 OF CORNWALL. 06 the soil shall knowingly suffer the same to be done, he and they so offending shall be in- dicted or presented for the same at any leet^ or law-court to be held for the stannary wherein the said way is; and if convicted, he and they shall be grievously fined for the same to the Duke of Cornwall by the stew- ard, and the said steward shall cause the said party or parties so digging, or causing or suffering to be digged, such shafts or pits in the highway to fill up the same, and make such highway plain and passable. And if such person, or persons, shall refuse or neglect so to do, they shall be committed to the goal of Lostwythiel, until they pay their said fine, and make the same way safe and passable. 8. Item. We do agree, constitute and or- fn^tJ^^^J*^*^" dain that where any tinner shall work either ground in an in wastrel or several, and shall make and **^**^«^'« "«^f» break tin under ground, and the party or par- ties, who have either bounds or several lands contiguous or near adjoining with the said bounds or several lands, wherein such tin is made or wrought,* that in case such owner of the several lands or bounds, so contiguous or adjoining, shall suspect that the party so dig- ging is come into the bounds or several under ground, and hath wrought tin there, the owner of the lands or bounds so adjoining complaining thereof unto the Steward of the stannaries, Vice-Warden, or Lord- Warden, or either of them, that then it shall and may be lawful for the Steward of the stannaries. Vice- Warden, or Ix)rd- Warden, or any of t]iem, upon such complaint made unto them the remedr. or either of them in that behalf> to nominate ^KlnvoSl and tionof 1752,