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 OF CORNWAJLL. he and required iii the' weighing of jtin in the coinage-hall in th^ several and respective (StaQnaries. 69 13. Itepi, We do order, constitute, and *3. status 23 r T_ f ^^• '^^ 9 ^ and 17 of Henry appoint that the two statutes and aicts of viii,toi>cgivcn parliament, the one made in the seven and ia^!?coSrt!'Nj? twentieth, and the other made in the three The reguUtitnt and thirtieth year of King Henry the Eighth, S'r.tt a. concerning the making the hatches and tyes ports of piy- to prevent the choaking of fresh- water rivers mouth! tcI^' l>e duly obsejrved, and given in charge by the ™°^^^' J^^-^^ pteward at every law-court* wcy. For these act5, see Ap- . pendix. A. Item. We agree, constitute, and or- h- Contents pf * dain that every cole pack o be used in owncwof w^ blowinff-houses shall and ouffht to be and ing-houscs to . ^ . " ,1 111 /f keep a cask to contain in measure three bushels of twenty mciure. gallons to the bushel^ and that all blowing- Jipuses ^hall provide and keep at their blow- ing houses a cask of three score gallons with one end out for the ready measuring of cole. brought to their respective houses, the said cask to be alfeered by two sufficient persons pn their respective oaths, to be sworn by the pteward of the stannary wherein the respec- tive blowing-houses lie, and then sealed by the said pteward, who shall have sixpence for the same. 15. Item. That if any man shall use dou- ^l^^^^^^ ble or deceitful weights or measures in buy- weighs. ing or selling black or white tin, contrary to the weights and measures of sixteen ounces to the pound, appointed by the laws of the (Stannaries, and shall be thereof convicted by prcpentment or indictment in the law-court, I he