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OF CORNWALL* 53 SO as it be not under five pounds, nor above twenty pounds ; and every one that shall be an aider or abetter therein, shall be subject to such fine as the judge before virhom he jshall be convicted shall assess, so as it exceed not half of the former pains assessed upon the principal actors and delinquents. 33. For that it is in the tinner's choice i^h'^'"*^tbie* whether he will coin in August, the begin- ning of which coinage is beyond the memory of the oldest man living, or will stay till Michaelmas to coin at cheaper rate; we think fit to leave August coinage to the will of the tinner. But- we agree to dissolve and and disannul, and to repeal and revoke the former constitution made anno 1610, for Constitution of deferring the payment for Michaelmas tin ' '°'*i** until the twenty-eighth day of November, which in former ti^ie was usually paid for at the day of deliverance, which was proclaimed upon the end of the coinage. And upon good experience of the inconyeniency grow- ing upon the former order, we agree, coYisti- tute, and ordain that the tin, which hereafter ^ shall be coined at Michaelmas coinage, shall be paid for within ten days after the same is cx)ined. And we likewise agree, constitute, and ordain that the money which shall be due to the tinner when his tin is coined, his impressed money being defaulted, shall be paid at the pay-day in the coinage-town where the tin is coined. And we desire the fermers of the preemption to give willing consent to this our ordinance as they will expect our forward endeavours to raise a quantity of tin, provided that imprest money G shall