stannary in English
noun
1
a tin-mining district in Cornwall or Devon, England.
King John's charter of 1201 empowered the lord warden of the stannaries to try all cases except land, life, or limb.
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1. Walter Raleigh, knight, vice admiral of the fleets, and warden of the stannary
2. To enforce the authority of the Stannary Courts a prison was constructed in the thirteenth century out of the keep or dungeon of Lydford Castle, about nine miles north of Tavistock; and in the sixteenth century this prison was described as "one of the most Annoyous, contagious, and detestable places in the realm."