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tarn nobili et dilecto et fideli nostro Johanni de Eltham comiti Cornubiæ fratri nostro carissimo, domino stanni prædicti, in perceptione cunagii sui de eodem stanno, et Philippæ Reginæ Angliæ consorti meæ carissimæ in perceptione firmæ et custumæ suarum in dictâ villâ Bristoll, quam stannatoribus prædictis et aliis de communitate regni nostri prejudiciale foret multiplicitèr et danipnosum si præfati operarii zonarum ab emptione stanni hujusmodi prætextu literarum nostrarum prædictarum se retraherent, et quod iidem stannatores a stannariis illis se vellent elongare, Nos hujusmodi dampno et præjudicio in hâc parte præcavere, et tam pro nostro ac dictorum consortis et comitis quam aliorum prædictorum indempnitate volentes in præmissis remedium apponere prout decet, vobis mandamus quod præfatos homines de Bristoll et alios quoscunque hujusmodi stannum in dictâ villâ Bristoll et alibi prout eis placuerit operari et vendere permittatis, prout hactenus facere consueverunt, dictis literis nostris præfatis zonariis London ut præmittitur factis ac statuto et mandatis nostris quibuscunque in contrarium directis non obstantibus. In cujus, etc. T. R., apud Westm., quarto die Maii.

Per ipsum Regem et Consilium.[1]


  1. ↑ This formula has been sometimes supposed to indicate that the writ issued by authority of parliament. The doctrine is open to question; but in the present case, such authority would certainly be necessary, if the previous letters patent of 1 Edw. III. were valid in law.
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