Index:The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall.djvu

Title	The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall: To which are Added the Several Acts of Parliament ...
Editor	J. Tregoning
Year	1808
Publisher	Printed and sold by J . Tregoning; [etc., etc .]
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CONTENTS.

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CONVOCATION held at Truro, &c. 1752. Page 14

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Recital of convocation, 22 James I. and 11 I.

15—35

2 Names of blowers to be certified 16
3 Blowers to be sworn 17
4 Tin to be carried directly from blowing-houses to the coinage ibid
5 Penalty for selling tin uncoined 18
6 None to sell tin ashes 19
7 Tin weights ibid
8 Beam and scales to be amended ibid
9 Trial by jury for tin tared 20
10 Penalty for making cased or falsified tin ibid
11 Offers of the coinage to be sworn 21
13 Who are tinners not to be impleaded out of the Stannarry courts ibid
13 Suits between tinners and foreigners 22
14 Tinners free in fairs 23
15 Tinners not to be jurors but only in the Stannaries ibid
16 Tinners to pay no tythe out of their wages ibid
17 Cutter of bounds to nominate all his owners ibid
18 Bounds renewed before new pitched 24
19 Partners in a tin work how to work ibid
20 If practitioner to be made owner of any tin work in variance ibid
21 Possession, how far available 25
22 Of suffering bounds to be forfeited 26
23 A gallon and afoot of black tin, what it is ibid
24 None to buy black tin but at the wash ibid
25 Stewards to keep their courts from three weeks to three weeks 27
26 No Steward's son or servant to plead 28
27 Recital of the 36th article., 30 Eliz. ibid
28 Executions good a year and a day 29
29 Original process shall have no material raisure in it ibid
30 Head bailiffs to answer escapes, &c. ibid
31 Number of bailiffs limitted 30
32 No warrant of contempt to be granted before the case be first heard 31
33 Prisoners on original process only to have the liberty of the borough ibid
34 Keepers may take bail on original process ibid
35 Liberate by the Vice-warden ibid
36 But four names in one warrant 32
37 Appearance to be in Person or by a known Attorney ibid
38 Estreats to be affeered ibid
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39 No process to be served in the night, or on the Sabbath 33
40 Order of appeals ibid
41 Custody of the Duchy-seal ibid
42 Time for hearing of appeals 34
43 Determination of appeals ibid
44 Commitments for contempt ibid
45 Costs of appeal ibid
46 Return of sureties on arrest 35
47 Plaintiffs declaration to be ready at the court-day when the defendant appears ibid
The foregoing laws corjfirmed ibid
Recital of convocation, 12 Car, I. ibid
1 Laws made by 16 Stannators binding 27
2 Resolution of the Judges to be entered ibid
3 Cutting of bounds 38
4 Renewing of bounds ibid
5 Who are priviledged tinners 39
6 Names of blowers to be certified ibid
7 Blowers to be sworn. 40
8 Blowers to certify what tin is blown ibid
9 Tin to be carried directly from the blowing-house to the coinage 41
10 Falsifiers of tin to be fined 42
11 None to sell tin ashes 43
12 Officers of the coinage to be sworn ibid
13 Tinners to be jurors only in the Stannaries ibid .
14 Tinners to pay no tythes out of their wages 44 .
15 Proclamation of bounds next court after the pitch ibid
16 Part-owners of works to set their parts, bring in their men, or be excluded ibid
17 No officer or great person to be made owners of works in variance 45
18 Possession, how far to be available ibid
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19 Old bounds new cut by fraud, shall be to the use of the old owners not defrauding 46
20 Measures of black tin 47
21 Black tin to be bought and sold openly ibid
22 Courts to be held every three weeks 48
23 The court to be called in market ibid
24 Writs to be in force a year and a day 49
25 No warrant of contempt before the party be prercepted to appear ibid
26 Sureties names be indorsed on the warrant ex oificio ibid
27 Declaration to be entered the third court after the arrest at farthest 50
28 Tinners may drive an adit through others bounds ibid
29 Tything men of Blackmore may summon, ex officio ibid
30 What writs lie in the Stannary 51
31 Bounds unwrought for seven years may be worked by others, giving the owners notice ibid
32 Force, how punishable 52
33 Coinage duty, how and when payable 53
34 No penalty to be levied on any delinquent till he be convicted 54
35 Forfeitures, how to be disposed of ibid
36 Four receivers to be chosen yearly 55
37 Receivers to give security ibid
The foregoing laws confirmed 56
Recital of convocation held, 4 Jac. II. 56—82
Recital of charters, &c. 57
Confirmation of former law 59
1 Proclamation of bounds regulated 60
2 Cutting and renewing of bounds regulated 61
3 Lord accepting of toll-tin to be barred of his land-dole ibid
4 Bounds and tin-works chatties real 62
5 Adventurer may bring in his own part goods and materials ibid
6 Persons contracting only to be sued 63
7 Shafts not to be dug in highways 64
8 Persons breaking tin under ground in anothers right, the remedy 65
9 Appearance to be in person, or by a known Attorney 67
10 Measures to be viewed at Mich. law-court 68
11 Beams and scales to be rectified at Mich. coinage ibid
12 Coinage-weights to be rectified ibid
13 Statutes, 27 and 33 Hen. VIII. to be given in charge at every law-court 69
14 Cole packs to contain 60 gallons ibid
15 Penalty for selling by false weights ibid
16 Tin not to be bought by night, or of suspected persons, &c. 70
17 Tin not to be carried before break of day, or after sun-set, or out of the common road to the coinage town 71
18 Courts to be held from three weeks to three weeks, except special and customary courts 72
19 Owners and blowers not to answer for each others defaults ibid
20 Grand juries to consist of the ablest Stannators: law-courts to be proclaimed, and penalty on stetwards not keeping them 73
21 Duces tecum, how grantable.---Keepers fee per mile 74
22 Penalty on tinners, privately defrauding their partners 74
23 Penalty on persons breaking, spalling, &c. privately. 75
24 Warrants and executions not to be delivered to the bailiffs till filled up 70
25 None but Barristers, or sworn Attorneys to plead ibid
26 Convocator not to be a juryman ibid
27 Bailiffs to be sworn ibid
28 Tything-men of Blackmore may summon ex officio 78
29 Time and place of coinages ibid
30 Coinage-officers to be sworn 79
31 Uncoined tin not to be sold ibid
32 Tinkers to put any number of pieces of his own tin in one bill 80
33 Coinages not to be adjourned ibid
The fore going laws confirmed 81
Laws made 27 Geo, II. 82
1 For the better regulation of blowing-houses and smelting-houses ibid
2 For the better securing the revenue arising from the coinage 85
3 Concerning the tare of tin 87
4 For preventing the falsification of tin ibid
5 Coinage officers to be sworn 88
6 To ascertain the weights at blowings houses and smelting-houses 89
7 To rectify the beams and scales at the Coinage towns 92
8 To regulate the cutting, keeping, and working of tin-bounds 98
9 To prevent tinners from working into adjoining bounds and lands 101
10 To prevent removing tin by night 103
11 For the better payment of costs 105
12 To prevent streamers from diverting water from houses or mills 108
13 Against streamers suffering rubble to fall into rivers, &c. and not cleaning such rivers, &c. on notice 109
14 For the more effectual working of mines 110
15 Against tinners privately defrauding their partners, &c. ibid
16 For the better preservation of the records,&c, of the Stannary courts, &c. 111
17 To prevent partiality in delivery of white tin 114
18 Prisoners to be charged with declaration 115
19 To regulate the time for coining tin at Penzance 116
Convocation, 2 Annæ Reg. 117
Appendix 122 Index