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OF CORNWAlyL, 80 Queen Elizabeth; We find likewise, that several convocations or parliament!^ of tintietB have been from time to time held, but in the late horrid rebellion against our late sovereign lord King' Charles the First, of ever blessed^ and ^orious memory in the year l644i the *^44- E«he. rebels under the command of the Earl of ?w/i piundclSi" Essex, the Prince's exchequer at Lostwvthiel aiui bumt by the 111 1 ./•.! 11 rebels, under the was plundered, and most of the records de- Eari of Essex. stroyed. But we find that at a convocation or parliament of tinners; held at Lostwythiel theAtight and twentieth day of September, m the two and twentieth year of King JameS" Recital of con. the First, before the Right Honourable Wil- J^^tT""^ liam Earl of Pembroke, then Lord* Warden of the Stannaries, there were several laws and constitutions made in affirmation of our customs. We find further, that at another convocation or parliament of tinners held at Lostwjrthiel aforesaid, the twelfth day of Au- gust in the eleventh year of the reign of our> " charies i. said late sovereign lord King Charles the First, before the Right Honour^le Philip Earl of Pembroke arid Montgomery, then Ik)rd- Warden of the Stannaries of Devon and Gornwdl, there were severai laws and con- stitutions made in afiSrmation of our customs. And we do allow, ratiiy, and confirm all Ratification of the ordinances and declarations made, de- priviic= <|^red, and : ordained^ in and by the said- several acts and constitutions of cortvocation not altered, abridgied^ or made void by act erf" parliament, or by the constitutiom hferein • after nrade and ordained; Attdi we do like- wise approve and confirm all our ancient- laod laudable customs relating to the pro- pertiep iscs.