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Accordingly Convocation was summoned to Lostwitliiel, but 

 unfortunately there seems to have been a general feeling 

 amongst the Stannators in favour of Truro as the place of 

 meeting and a message was sent to the lord warden, who was 

 at Lostwithiel, to the effect that it would be for the dispatch of 

 business to adjourn to Truro. The lord warden had a con- 

 ference with the House and desired to know their reasons. The 

 answer was that Truro was more in the heart of the tin 

 country, to which the lord warden replied that though uncon- 

 vinced by their reasoning he would, if the service of the county 

 required it, give up hia convenience and remove to Truro, but 

 he thought if there was weight in their reasons Helston was 

 more amongst the miners than Truro. Further discussion was 

 put an end to by Convocation taking matters in their own hands 

 and adjourning to Truro, and when the lord warden sent to 

 desire another conference, he found the matter concluded and a 

 resolution entered on the Journals that it was the undoubted 

 right of the House to adjourn themselves to such time and place 

 as they shall think tit. The lord Avarden was scandalized at 

 this proposition, and said that it directly attacked the prince's 

 prerogative as appears by the terms of the commission, and the 

 Speaker replied in the presence of the Stannators present (some 

 of them had already left the town) that he was empowered by 

 them to engage that this resolution should at the next meeting 

 be expunged from the Journals. The lord warden reported all 

 that had happened to the prince, and the result was a pro- 

 clamation adjourning the Convocation to Hehton. Thither went 

 in due course the lord warden and the stannators, but it was 

 all in vain. The stannators refused to expunge the obnoxious 

 resolution. Messages went to and fro for a week. The lord 

 warden refused to receive the laws which the stannators 

 tendered for his approval till the resolution was expunged. In 

 their last message the stannators see no reason for continuing to 

 sit till Monda}' (a day which had been named) unless his 

 lordship intends then to receive the laws prepared by them. 

 They desire his immediate answer, otherwise it is their resolution 

 to adjourn forthwith. The lord warden replies that he is not 

 prepared at present to say whether he will or will not receive the 

 laws on Monday, but must take time to consider. Thereupon 



