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LAWS OF THE STANNARIES
OF CORNWALL.

Cornwall (to wit) At a Convocation of four and twenty stannators, or Parliament of tinners assembled, and held in, and for the Stannaries of Cornwall, at Truro in the said county of Cornwall, the twenty-fifth day of August in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth; and in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two, before John Hearle, Esq. Vice-Warden of the said Stannaries, by the direction of the Right Hon. James Earl Waldegrave, Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, by virtue of His Majesty's commis- sion under his privy seal to his Lordship for that purpose directed, bearing date at his palace at Westminster, the fourteenth day of July then last past, and continued by several adjournments to the eleventh day of Sep- tember in the twenty-seventh year of his said Majesty's reign. *

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