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TO
THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL

John Thomas, Esq.

VICE WARDEN OF THE STANNARIES OF CORNWALL.

Sir,
I dedicate to your Worship, without scruple or apology, a Collection of Laws relating for the most part, to that Court, in which, for upwards of Twenty Years, you have presided with so much ability. To no one else could it be inscribed without manifest injustice.

The scarcity of the Edition published by Authority of the last Convocation, first prompted