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Laws of the Stannarius of Cornwall, Made at the Convocation
or Parliament of Tinners, at Trurd, Sept. 13, Anno 27^0 Ges. II.

Stannarius, mines from which tin bearing ore is dug. The
most noted stannarius are those of Devon + Cornwall in
England. Around the mines of these two countries there has
arisen a body of law + customary usage peculiar to the localityy +
not imitated or duplicated in any other mines
in England. By early usage the perogative of the
Crown was extended so as to cover these tin mines,
athough elsewhere it reaches only to gold + silver.
King Johan (?1167-1216), in a charter to the Tuniners,
gave them the privilege of mining + working anywhere
in the two countries + this was confirmed by subsequent
monarchs, until Edward III (1312-1377) created his
son Duke fo Cornwall with the stannaries as a
perpetuity of the duchy. The Doke who is now always
the Prince of Wales is represented by a warden +
vice wardens. In former times representative assemblies
of the Turiners (called parliaments) were summoned
by the Warden for the regulation of the stannaries +
redress of greviances: the last of them was held in
1752. The Stannary Courts are courts of record held
by the warden + vice warden (of the same limited
exclusive character as the courts - patatine) in wich the
tuniners have the privilege of suing + being sued.
They were remodeled + regulated by a series of acts
of Parliament. Appeals from them are now taken
to the Court of Appeals + finally to the House of Lords.

338.2 L 674 - George Randall Lewis - The Stannaries.