.
The tin-bounders of the Stannaries also bequeath their dormant liberty of
mining, which is in Cornwall regarded as personal property, and passes to
executors, and not to the heir.

{79b} This claim to timber, at least where the forest is a royal one,
has also been generally admitted into the continental mine codes. King
John granted it to the tinners of Devon and Cornwall, but such a grant is
now inoperative except as against the Crown.

{80} The Mendip Miners are observed by Mr. Smirke to determine the
intervening distance of their pits by a throw of "the hache" two ways,
the miner standing up to the girdle in the mine groof. In Bohemia the
arrow-flight fixes the limits of the work.

{81a} It is presumed that "winde" in this place, and "win" or "wyne" a
little further on, is the same word, viz., "win," and refers to the area
or space round the pit which circumscribes the working ground of the
miner, within which he is to win his ore.

{81b} An original and local word. It seems to be allied to drill a
hole. (I do not think the word strictly local. Thrull, drill, thrill,
thirl, and thurl, are all current elsewhere--all from Saxon [Greek
text].)

{82} Of course there should be forty-eight signatures, as appended,
doubtless, to the original document. Probably some of them had become
illegible, and therefore were omitted altogether by the copyist of 1673.

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