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In matters of important consequence, appertayning to the whole
Stannery, the L. Warden, or his Vnderwarden, vseth to impannell a
Iury of foure and twenty principall Tynners, which consist of sixe
out of euery quarter, returnable by the Maiors of the foure Stannery
townes, and whose acts doe bind the residue.
Next to the liuelesse things, follow those which pertake a growing
life, and then a feeling.
The women and children in the West part of Cornwall, doe vse to make
Mats of a small and fine kinde of bents there growing, which for their
warme and well wearing, are carried by sea to London and other parts
of the Realme, and serue to couer floores and wals. These bents grow
in sandy fields, and are knit from ouer the head in narrow bredths
after a strange fashion,
Of herbes and rootes for the pot and medicine, Cornishmen enioy a like
portion in proportion with other Shires, which somewhere also
receiueth an increase by the sowing and planting of such as are
brought thither from beyond the seas.


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