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OF CORNWALL. . - 80 and party; and shall have from the Lord J^^^* Warden^ Vice-Warden, or steward before whom he or they was or were sworn^ a cer- tificate of his or their having been so sworn. And if any such officer or officers, deputy or Penalty ©o exe. ikputies shall execute his or their office or fore$t^!^*^* offices, before he or they hath or have been sworn as aforesaid, he or they shall forfek ten pounds respectively for every coinage, he or they shall execute his or their office or ' offices without being sworn as aforesaid; which said ten pounds shall be recovered by information or action in the stannary-court, and be levied upon the goods and chattels of the party so offending, one moiety thereof to the use of the King, or Lord Duke of Corn- wall, and the other moiety to the use of the person suing for the same. And in de&ult of such goods, he shall suffer imprisonment in the stannary-prison at Lostwythid, for the space of one month. 6. Item. Whereas it has been customary «. The weights to have the weights at the several smdting- SLd! uSi^' houses somewhat to exceed the averdupoia weight, in order for making good the assay, and also three pounds for br^tkage flowed to the merchant on every block of tin, and to make up a gain besides of some pounds in the weight of every block between tMfe smdt- ing-house weight and the merchant's; and whereas the weights of the several smelting* houses have been found to vary, and some auspicious have arisen of frauds committed at sdme of the smelting-houscs, by receiving black tin by larger weight than the white tin hath been ddiyered out by 5 be it therefore enacted