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The pewterers bought their tin from the merchants usually, although 

 they sometimes sent factors to Cornwall to buy directly from the 

 miners.^ The Pewterers' Company sometimes bought qviantities of 

 tin by collective bargaining and parceled it out among its members. - 

 The tin was either manufactured into pewter instruments and sold 

 to alehouse-keepers and others, or was exported in certified bars 

 abroad.^ 



1 S. P. Dom. Eliz., CCLIII, 46. 

 - Welch, I, 217, 268; II, 10. 



^ See discussion of the medieval and sixteenth century export trade in Lewis, 

 55-64. 



