ted by the position of his works and habitation in one or other of
them.

A 5 pounds penalty was laid upon all miners who should send or carry
any coals to Hereford or Monmouth by the Wye, except lime-coal at
"the New Wears," at 4s. a dozen bushels. A similar fine was
inflicted on any inhabitant of the Forest division of the county who
should "presume" to carry coal otherwise than for their own use; so
also no miner was to work more than two pits at one time; nor to
carry coal for any person not a free miner; neither to sell fire-coal
or stone-coal charks under 7s. a dozen bushels, or 5s. if smith's
coal, at Redbrook, which, if refused there, a "forbid" shall be
declared until the former coal should be accepted. This "Order"
further enacted that if coal was found in any bargeman's boat, and he
refuse to say from whom he had it, a general "forbid" shall be
declared that no miner serve him with any more. A free miner is
briefly defined to be "such as have lawfully worked at coal a year
and a day." A foreigner selling coal at Hereford for less than 13s.
per ton was to be summoned, or abide the consequences of a general
"forbid." Should there be at any time more than a sufficiency of
coal for the trade on the Wye, the barge-owners were to employ the
services of the miners, or be fined according to their wages. A
horse-load to the Wye was fixed at 2 cwt. and a quarter for 6d., ten
such making a ton, to be weighed, if required, under a forfeit of 2s.
6d. Miners beneath the wood were bound to sell not less than a cwt.
of coal for 4d.; 3 bushels of smith's coal for 5d.; and 1 bushel of
lime coal for 1d. at the pit. No team was to be served with less
than 2 cwt. nor more than 21 cwt., to be weighed, if desired, or
forfeit 5 pounds. This Order constituted Richard Clarke and Edward
Tomkins Machen, Esqrs., free miners, and exhibits at the end the
penmanship of only 18 of the jury, all the rest merely making their
marks.

We now arrive at the _seventeenth_ or last "Order" issued by the Mine Law
Court. It dates 22nd October, 1754, and sat at the Speech House, before
Maynard Colchester and Thomas James, Esqrs.

It records the election to free-minerships of the Right Honble.
George Augustus Lord Dursley, Charles Wyndham of Clearwell, Esq.,
Rev. Roynon Jones of Monmouth, John Probyn of Newland, Esq.