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Philip, earl of Pembroke, lord warden, by virtue of the 

 King's Eoyal Letters under the signet to him directed. 



IV. 2 James II (A.D. 1687). Held at Lostwithiel under 

 the king's commission before John, earl of Bath, lord warden, 

 on 26 October, and continued by adjournments' to 11 October, 

 1688. 



V. 2 Anne (A.D. 1704) held at Truro by virtue of the 

 qiieen's commission under the privy seal before John, Lord 

 Granville, lord warden. 



VI. 8 Anne (A.D. 1710). Held at Truro under the 

 cjueen's commission before the honourable Hugh Boscawen, 

 lord warden, on 20 February, and continued by adjournments 

 to 20 April in the following year. 



VII. 2.3 George II (A.D. 1750). Held at Truro and by 

 adjournment at Helston, before Thomas Pitt, es(j^., lord 

 warden, by virtue of the commission'^ of Frederick Lewis, 

 Prince of Wales, under his privy seal. 



VIII. 26 George II (A.D. 17o2). Held at Truro before 

 John Hearle, esq., vice warden, by direction of James, earl of 

 Waldegrave by the king's commission under the privy seal 

 on 25 August, 1752, and continued by adjournments to 11 

 September in the following year. 



The "laws, customs and constitutions" of 22 James I, 

 12 Charles I, and 2 James II, are recited at length in the 

 enactment of this last parliament, and they are severally declared 

 to be farther ratified, established and confirmed so far as they 

 are unexpired and not repugnant to any Act of Parliament, or 

 to any Act, or constitution made in subsequent convocations. 



The published volume of the Laws of the Stannaries of 

 Cornwall (1824) gives what purports to be the enactments of 



3. One of the adjourned meetings was held at Launceston. The last adjoutn- 

 nicnt was to Saltash (Pearce, "The Laws and Customs of the Stannaries in the 

 counties of Cornwall and Devon," p. to8), but there is no record of a meeting there. 

 People had other things to think of just then. The proceedings of this Convocation 

 are mosl fully set out by Pearce. It seems highly probable that the author is the 

 Mr. Thomas Pearce referred to in conne.xion with them at page 105. This gentle- 

 man received a gratuity of /30 for his services at the Convocation fp. 96). 



4. The royal warrant for issuing the commission is set out in Serjeant 

 Mannings' Appendix to Kowe v. Brenton, 3 Manning and Ryland, p. 497. 



