r 8 9 j 



6. Item, That if any man of that occupation doth pick or steal 

 any ledd or oarc to the value of thirteen-pence halfpennv, the lord 

 or his officer may arrest all his lead works, house and hearth, with 

 all his groofs and works, and keep them as safely to his own use, 

 and shall take the person that hath so offended, and bring him 

 where his house is, or his work, and all his tools or instruments to 

 the occupation belongs as he useth, and put him into the said 

 house and set fire on all together about him, and banish him from 

 that occupation before the miners for ever. 



7. Item, If that person doth pick or steal there any more, he 

 shall be tryed by the law, for this law and custome hath no more 

 to do with him. 



8. Item, That every lord of the soyle ought to keep two miner 

 courts by the year, and to swear twelve men of the same occupa- 

 tion, for the redress of misdemeanors touching the mineries. 



9. Item, That the lord or lords may make and grant manner of 

 arrests (viz.) first for strife between man and man, for their works 

 under the ground or earth. Secondly for his own dutys for lead or 

 oare, wheresoever he findeth it upon the same forrest. 



10. Item, That if any man by means of misfortune take his 

 death, as by falling of the earth upon him, by drawing or stifeling, 

 or otherwise, as in time past many have been, the workmen of the 

 same occupation are bound to fetch him out of the earth, and to 

 bring him to Christian burial at their own costs and charges, al- 

 though he be forty fathome under the earth, as heretofore hath 

 been done, and the coroner or any officer at large shall not have to 

 do with him in any respect. 



MANUFACTURES. 



